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Man, I just wish they'd work on stability. Fly.io is an amazing offering. But it's so buggy, it's almost more headache than it's worth trying to build PaaS-flavored software on it. Even the Fly docs are "buggy" since they mostly transitioned to v2 Machines but the docs are still a mix of Nomad and Machines.

There's so much power on the platform with Flycast, LiteFS and other clever ways to work with containers. If it was 90% stable I'd consider it a huge win.

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I agree - I find if you pick the "mainstream" regions like IAD you get close to 100% uptime, like what you see from my 3rd-party status page here: https://flyio.onlineornot.com/

Once you start deploying in SIN/CDG etc you start to get really weird instability (and this is on v2 machines).

One of fly's main features is global distribution so it's kinda silly if you have to avoid SIN and CDG

You can use hkg and ams instead :)

I haven't been able to bring up a clustered Elixir server in hkg without experiencing netsplits every 5-10 minutes. ewr, ord, and cdg have been totally reliable.

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