Fly.io
Edge computing is the new frontier. Fly brings the untapped potential of intelligent edge-servers to your finger-tips. It's a global load balancer, a smart reverse p...
- Freemium • Proprietary
- CDN
- Online
What is Fly.io?
Fly is an Application Delivery Network (ADN). It's a global load balancer, a smart reverse proxy, a library of powerful Middleware; it's a CDN that developers like you control.
With Fly, you can…
- Use the Fly API and in one call generate an automatically renewing Let's Encrypt SSL certificate for any domain that you or your customers own.
- Thread all of your applications, backends, functions and services together atop one hostname.
- Unlock potent features from our Middleware library to save developer time and add value to your applications: Server-side authentication and analytics, render speed tracking, geo IP routing, the web application firewall, and more.
- Serve all of your traffic at blazing speeds from a relaible global delivery network with caching and HTTP/2 over SSL.
In a few clicks, your visitors will access your sites faster and more securely and your developers can weave logical magic into a powerful global edge-server network.
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Fly puts your services at the edge elegantly and affordably. Very innovative methods.
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- Cloud Computing
- http2
- HTTPS
- increase-performance
- content-delivery
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arhabjb434 added Fly.io as alternative(s) to BasedFlare
Imagine instead of making 1 Heroku app in 1 place, you make 18+ all over the world for the same price. Truthfully, the idea is you use those 18+ mini JS servers to cache your multiple Heroku/whatever sites worldwide, and under one domain.
Fly.io lets you program your own CDN, which will then be deployed to 18+ servers on all but 2 continents*. What does that look like? Basically one or more Javascript files with special global objects for setting and getting things to cache, which is basically a key/value store under the hood, with an extra expiration date property.
Cache your JS files there, HTML, images, OR route requests to domain.com/blog to data from company.wordpress.org--yes, you can make your usual blog.domain.com live at domain.com/blog seamlessly. This is good for SEO and makes your site seem cool. Not as cool as an AOL keyword, but still better than subdomains.
Also, it's the latest Javascript APIs. It seems beyond Node v10, so it's like Node dialled up to 11. But for reasons I can't explain to Spinal Tap fans, it's more like Node dialled up to 12. Plus Heroku-like env variables and things. From there, the sky is the limit. Import stuff from NPM and also test locally or in CI.
My only complaint: while Javascript is fun, there is a much easier way to do it on the very same site! Fly.io has a "Sites" feature that lets you do most of the stuff you'd want to do in Javascript, but in a menu/GUI. The Javascript stuff is insufficiently documented, the support is insufficiently supportive and the easier-to-do GUI stuff is likely to be discontinued. The staff seems small, and even though it's open source, issues can linger and communication intermittent.
I with them the best.