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is that why you are going through all my comments and flagging and downvoting? you know this just makes you look even worse right?

Are we not allowed to expect reliable uptimes from a cloud provider? What part of "fly.io has a documented history of prolonged downtimes and data redundancy issues" do you disagree with? Are you calling everybody liars who have had bad experience with fly.io, frankly, business and reputation loss that came as a result of trusting fly.io ?

I'm puzzled with your statement here. Frankly, offended by your sarcasm and unprofessional behavior here.

I respect your view. I'm not involved with Lucia btw but i do feel v2 covers a lot of those edge case you described and for almost all sub 100k concurrent sessions I find pocketbase deliver here (if anybody is interested).

I guess one clear difference is the lack of a marketing department from something well funded. I recall another HN comment here that said the best business model is to take something people can do already and mark it up by selling the pain points, that could be whats also helping all these auth as a service vendors.

pocketbase, lucia auth, there are so many options that won't meter you for MAU for a user table in your database.

authentication is critical, you shouldn't be outsourcing this stuff anyhow. learn how to harden your box, use cloudflare tunnel and dont store passwords in plaintext.

its really not hard to do and constantly being gaslighted into paying someone to do it for you because everybody else is doing it is just irresponsible.

People hosting their business with a cloud hosting provider doesn't care about your technical debt, we care about our businesses not going down for several hours and then being gaslighted that its normal and told to expect more in the future by the founder.

"Expect more downtime in the near future, btw please host your business critical applications with our cloud offering" did i read that correctly?

I see so you think its good business practice to basically say "expect more downtimes in the future who cares about your entire business going down for several hours more than once a year.

Gotcha. I'll be sure to pass on the good word.

you wouldn't be able to run anything substantial with that kind of budget

but GO and pocketbase is on record for supporting 10k concurrent requests per second on low powered VPS

theres just so many anecdotes/nightmare stories from people using fly.io here much more than the ones linked by GP

expect to see more of these "post-mortem apologies" from fly.io in the future because it won't be the last

i recommend lowendtalk what fly.io doing is running colocated baremetal servers and using firecracker to overcommit (probably via memory ballooning and other disk compression on demand)

if you are going to haggle over $2/month then you are better off just connecting your raspberry pi with wireguard/cloudflare tunnel on a residential connection

fly.io has a very bad reputation for reliability there doesn't seem to be any damage control beyond hackernews and even here the consensus seems to be "dont run anything mission critical on fly.io or expect data redundancy"

in fact, you can almost get the same thing fly.io does by running firecracker on your own bare metal servers and cheaper too.

I'm afraid the public sentiment towards fly.io has been tainted for good (I can't count how many times they apologized now).

insider info: all the top talent at Samsung left for SK Hynix after government stepped and forced DEI on Samsung leading to unqualified managers ruining Samsung's culture of innovation and rewarding experimentation.

The title of this article really irks me. Calling something a myth/conspiracy to downplay something very real is not only condescending it makes you lack empathy and self-awareness.

The overwhelming digital connectivity and urbanization will naturally give rise to loneliness as humans have long evolved to be social. We are actually seeing deurbanization taking for the first time in East Asia and young moving away from urban centres for the countryside.

All this modernization that ultimately comes at the cost of human connectivity and community and I don't like the choice of words the author uses to push their idea

what sort of environment do you need to be in to have to compose concurrency like this instead of relying on native go's scaling?

Big names like Lichtman announced he was leaving X for Bluesky and came back on X in less than 24 hours.

What makes social media work is the echo effect, you just won't be able to get it on a heavily censored platform like Bluesky and Reddit and a big reason why X is overtaking even mainstream media as much as people who lean left.

Its a huge problem to be imposing political leanings of the moderator on a public square because you end up creating an echo chamber which people inevitably abandon because you just won't reach enough people.

those were truly the golden years of online gaming

do you remember the monster hunter mod ?

huge random monsters would spawn and it would take multiple people to take them down