fly.ioReviews of fly.io

Not stable. Definitely not production ready. Moved first app to Vercel and about to move the second one. So many deployment errors, random 500 happening on their own admin dashboard. Random unexplained delays when deploying etc..

Scammers. They unilaterally added a paid dedicated IP option to all free accounts, even for those who absolutely didn’t need it, and charged the money from the card without consent.

Hosted my telegram bot for a large group chat on fly.io. It ran an entire year without interruptions, virtually for free (got moved to the free tier automatically). Good stuff.

"Confirm your payment method to keep using our platform" then proceeds to charge me money when i am using the free plan. This is a scam.

I subscribed to this service to deploy my Remix app and paid $15 for half a month of support. Unfortunately, the support I received was ineffective, so I canceled my subscription and deleted my account. However, two days later, I was charged an additional $29 for email support that I didn’t request. In total, I’ve spent $45-46 and wasted three days trying to deploy my app with no useful assistance. I’m very dissatisfied with the service and would like a refund for the extra charges. Update: Customer service has been refunded unexpected charges - because of that updating stars from one to two stars.

I give the second star just to thank the good customer service that refunded the surprise charges. I am a beginner developer but I still understand that if you make a free plan, you don't add surprise charges out of nowhere!! You warn the user that this is something you need to pay. But there was no warning, nothing. You might use fly.io if you know the pitfalls but I strongly suggest all the beginners to stay far away from this site!!!

Fly.IO is an upcoming genius provider. One Dockerfile, free Let's Encrypt SSL certificates, and a reasonable cold start time. My first cold start takes about 7 seconds and has the potential to cause a timeout. But, from a business perspective, this is hardly a problem. I am focused on recurring users and traffic spikes. They face some downtime from time to time, but I tolerate this since I load balance between other cloud providers. The users that have rated Fly poorly potentially do not have enough technical expertise and expect it to be like Wix or Shopify. This will be one of the best (and simplest) serverless providers you will ever encounter in existence. I couldn't stand back and tolerate a 2.7-star review for these future Giants in the industry.

What a scam. You sign up for the hobby plan, thinking that it will cost you 5 dollars a month to try things out, and then the “extra fee for random services” goes crazy. I don’t understand the people who plan these marketing stunts and make it so hard for the individual to understand the bill and delete the account and get out. This was surely designed to make it hard. What a scam way of making business. You almost had a perfect looking business, but then you had to go down that disgusting road. I will advise all newcomers with hobby projects to stay away from fly.