
Fly.io Has a Free App Hosting Platform — Deploy Containers Globally with Zero Config
A developer wanted to deploy a Go API close to users in Europe AND the US. AWS required VPC configuration, load balancers, and multi-region setup. For one small API. Fly.io deploys Docker containers to edge locations worldwide. Push a Dockerfile, get global distribution. What Fly.io Offers for Free 3 Shared VMs - Up to 3 always-on machines 256MB RAM each - Enough for small APIs and sites 3GB Storage - Persistent volumes Global Network - Deploy to 30+ regions Automatic TLS - HTTPS on every app Private Networking - Apps communicate over WireGuard Fly Postgres - Managed PostgreSQL CLI Deploy - fly deploy and done Quick Start fly launch # detects Dockerfile, sets up app fly deploy # deploys to nearest region fly scale count 2 --region ams,iad # add instances in Amsterdam + Virginia Website: fly.io - 3 free VMs Need to monitor and scrape data from multiple web services automatically? I build custom scraping solutions. Check out my web scraping toolkit or email me at spinov001@gmail.com for
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