[mrkurt]

A 1GB Fly machine is ~$5.70/mo (we charge by the second, some months are better than others).

Persistent volumes are $0.15/gb each.

Not too far off, depending on how much data you have. However the platform has different tradeoffs than a single DigitalOcean VM. You'll get better uptime percentages on a single DO VM than you will on a single VM Fly app. You may not notice, but it's statistically true.

[unshavedyak]

Does Fly handle price caps? Ie to setup pricing to replicate ~$5/m behavior. Helping to ensure i can't use up all my ~$5/m budget in a few days of traffic, but i also can't go over some specified cap.

If so i'll probably give it a try!

edit: Regardless, going to give it a try. I was totally set on just using DO because i wanted something dumb and simple. This sounds like it might offer me that, plus not having to manage the OS. I really, really like that if i can keep pricing similar.

Bandwidth costs might become a concern, but i can always migrate to DO/etc if needed. Hopefully not, hah.

edit2: Looks like Fly has pre-paid billing[1], though i'm unclear if i can replicate the functionality i'm asking about. In this case i'd need a prepaid limit and a subscription to fill pre-paid with $N once a month.

Prepaid by itself is at least something, if nothing else exists. Just super annoying if you forget to add money.

[1]: https://community.fly.io/t/can-i-set-a-billing-limit-per-mon...

[halter73]

They claimed they did support price caps the HN launch thread referenced in this new press release. They got a lot of praise for it in the comments back then.

> Max monthly spend: unexpected traffic spikes happen, and the thought of spending an unbounded amount of money in a month is really uncomfortable. You can configure fly.io apps with a max monthly budget, we'll suspend them when they hit that budget, and then re-enable them at the beginning of the next month.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22616857