Fly.io Plans not free anymore

[Lhris]

Fly.io does not appear to have a free plan anymore (unless I am misinterpreting their pay-as-you-go plan). If I find the time I could try to write updated instructions for the course as I go along if a different service is going to be chosen?

https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/
https://fly.io/plans

[vejol]

Thank you for the issue. I have updated the course material to reflect that fly.io no longer offers free compute time. Render is still a viable option, so following the course material should be possible without any costs.

We have been considering an alternative to fly.io, but a perfect replacement is not known. The services mentioned in the course material, Replit and CodeSandBox, are more similar to Render and do not offer a command-line deployment method like fly.io. The difference between fly.io and Render is best highlighted in the deployment exercise in part 11 of the course material. It may not be reasonable to add instructions for a service that is very similar to Render.

We have decided to keep the course material as it is for now until a suitable service is found. Ideas are welcome!