It's not an official government website. The TLD is .org, not .gov, so there's not really anything they can do to take it down (short of legal action).
> We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis.
We looked at both and chose Render based on various posts here along with our real world testing and bake off parameters. We use the Pro Ultra config and handle ~20rps on a Node / Express stack w/ 36 workers using clustering. Our bandwidth is around 50Gb / month.
Render has been quite solid and the support has been on point when we have found issues or run into unexpected edge cases. I have been impressed that despite a big raise and subsequent scaling up, they continue to ship a solid product and the platform improvements have been useful as well.
Never used Fly.io but I have a website running on Render (2.4M unique users per month) and the service is getting quite nice. Occasional hiccups, but they are improving. Not as stable as Heroku used to be 7-8 years ago yet, but it's also waaaaay cheaper.
I really like their Docker support and infra as code, makes it very easy to spin up a whole thing while not being too far conceptually from Kubernetes for example.
I have services running on each. Fly's more flexible. Render's further from the metal, and thus somewhat more limited.
Both have some reliability issues and rough edges. My new stuff is mostly on Fly, but I'd use Render where I had a junior team who had zero infra chops.
> Some apps that I purchased before in full, later turned into subscription based apps(giving me a year of free subscription). This made me feel bad and I lost my warm and fizzy feelings towards these apps.
> That said, I understand why they are doing it. It doesn't make sense whatsoever to receive one time payment and provide updates forever.
This. While justified, so many apps messed up the switch to subscriptions.
We recently switched our app Genius Scan to a subscription model, but tried to do it The Right Way: users who had purchased the pro features automatically got subscribed to our Plus plan for life.
New users will have to subscribe though, as it's the only way to be sustainable.
We also introduced a new plan, Ultra, with more advanced features. This way, we still get a chance for long time users to support us if they upgrade to the Ultra plan.
Fun fact: Singapore's equivalent to Disneyland, the island of Sentosa (home to Universal Studios etc), used to be called "Pulau Blakang Mati", or "Island of Death from Behind", because of its incredible malaria rates.
And yet 5 million humans swarmed in and Singapore is among the highest nominal GDP countries in the world. Shows that there's little hope bringing balance between humanity and other species in the current economic system.
Well it wasn't 5M until recently. And one could argue that putting 5M people into a tiny island is being efficient with space, leaving vast swaths of Malaysia untouched (where it wouldn't be if Singapore wasn't so dense).
Sometimes I think mother nature just looks at people shaking her head quoting the line from Last Crusade, "you chose poorly" on selecting where to live.
And, ironically, other insects (for example, dragonflies) which are also killed by the fogging. What's more, the predatory insects usually have a much longer life-cycle, so after a fogging the mosquitos will come back long before their predators. Thus, once you start fogging, you have to keep doing it or you'll end up with more mosquitos than before.
I've actually seen this happen... ok, my observation is purely anecdotal and has no scientific validity, but the effect I observed was pretty dramatic. Where I live in South America dengue is also endemic, and during some particularly bad Dengue outbreaks a few years ago the city government did some extensive one-shot fogging. Immediately afterward there were practically no mosquitos at all for a few weeks and reduced numbers for some months. But thereafter for at least 6 months to a year everybody complained that the mosquitos were worse than ever (mostly without making any connection to the insecticide fogging, they just complained the way people complain about the weather).
What makes you think a "healthy" ecosystem isn't deadly for humans? I mean, malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever are all natural parts of the ecosystem.
