Fly.io Has a Free Tier — Deploy Apps Globally With 3 Shared VMs and 160GB Bandwidth

Marcus had a problem. His Node.js API ran on a single droplet in New York. Users in Singapore saw 300ms+ latency. He looked at AWS CloudFront, Azure CDN — pricing got complicated. Then someone pointed him to Fly.io. Forty minutes later, his app was running in 12 regions simultaneously. For free. What You Get Free No credit card required. Monthly allowances: 3 shared-cpu-1x VMs (256MB RAM each) — always on, no cold starts 160GB outbound bandwidth per month 3GB persistent volumes for databases/files Anycast networking — single IP routes to nearest region Private networking — encrypted WireGuard tunnels between your apps Automatic TLS — certificates provisioned and renewed free Fly Postgres (free) — 1 VM + 1GB volume Fly Redis via Upstash — 100MB, 10K requests/day Quick Start curl -L https://fly.io/install.sh | sh fly auth login fly launch fly deploy fly launch detects Dockerfiles, package.json, go.mod automatically. Two questions — app name, region — done. Real Example: Global Node.js AP