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Ugh... I don't want to denigrate your advice (which I'm sure is great) but at this point in the comments we're getting so far away from the, "keep it simple" approach in the article that it's getting ridiculous.

If you're at the point where you're concerned about cold starts and using a service like fly.io why not just skip the (unbelievable, no-one-knows-this-stuff) complexity and use a $5/month VPS?

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That's a fair point, but that's essentially what fly does. If the only purpose of your VM is to serve your app (and not as a workspace for you or stuff like that), fly's great because you don't need to do any plumbing to deploy.

"Simply" using a 5$ VPS sounds great until you need to start writing systemd files, need to keep the box updated, want to deploy straight from GitHub,...

It doesn't take more to write a systemd unit file than figuring out the api request or navigating the gui of your favorite cloud service.

Nowadays all linux distros offer an unattended way to do packages security updates and reboot the node.

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