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Fly.io

Run servers close to your users.

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What is Fly.io?
Fly.io is an application hosting platform that runs containers as small virtual machines in data centres around the world.
What does it do?
Takes a Docker image or Dockerfile from the CLI and runs it as Fly Machines in the regions you choose, with anycast routing, persistent volumes, private networking and managed Postgres. Instances scale up and down per region.
Who is it for?
Developers and small engineering teams shipping latency-sensitive apps, and anyone comfortable with containers who wants multi-region deployment without assembling it on AWS.
What are the alternatives to Fly.io?
Render and Railway are simpler push-to-deploy hosts, Heroku is the older PaaS, DigitalOcean gives plain VMs you manage yourself, and Vercel targets frontend and serverless work.

Pricing

Pay as you go

Free allotment included

Paid

About

Founded 2017

Chicago, USA

Founder

The people behind Fly.io.

Kurt MackeyCo-founder & CEO

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