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Not so good with databases, they even tell you: we aren't a managed database provider. So careful there.

Very difficult to set up basic domains for your apps. An attitude of "you solve it." It's been two weeks and nobody from their support has bothered to help me with this fundamental setting. https://community.fly.io/t/for-your-phoenix-app-how-did-you-... - other threads are similar, with some even saying "use cloudflare"?

_Too_ locked down. You can't just connect to your database from the internet. Should be an option, I don't really care about the security implications of it. Let me choose.

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I've since moved my app to Render.com and it's been really great for me as an indie startup founder. I focus on my app and not the plumbing. Fly felt too much like plumbing.



The way they manage domains is so obfuscated that it took me a whole day to figure out how to do it.

It’s almost as if they were intentionally avoiding writing a simple “how to set up your domain with Fly” tutorial on the docs.

And I say this as a somewhat happy Fly customer! I had some gripes with it, and now I don’t — they improve the service every month.

I don’t understand why they don’t try to make this amazing tech more accessible.




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