I can finally spill about deployments. They are awesome! You having to pay though makes sense, and it is cheap for now
;-; tbh theyâre just like⌠glitch naming system and atm nothing else since you can just upgrade CPU instead of buying $6.60 a day boosts
Nah, I still like it though
This is good feedback, definitely something we can add for easy roll-backs.
We havenât launched this yet, but weâd want this to work on a Deployment whether or not youâre on Hacker/Pro plan.
Yes! Anything you can run in the Replit workspace, you can run in a Deployment.
Replit Database works from Deployments but Replit Auth does not yet â itâs coming soon, though!
Yeah, potentially! Do you think youâd use it?
Hmm, I donât know. Maybe once I get more cycles. It would be a pretty cool feature to have!
So if you pay for Deployments, you get Always On for free?
Deployments is sort of like a better version of always on for hosting pages.
Isnât it just a pop-up and some headers that are set?
Will Replit create a paid alternative to github pages (basically github pages, but with a 1gb storage limit and account-wide egress limits) soon?
Iâm not sure why youâd ask me, Iâm not affiliated with Replit so I would have no idea. I would say deployments are sort of like GitHub pages in some ways, theyâre just not quite free.
No, the terminology is a bit confusing here!
Deployments run in a reserved VM instance that is always running, are accessible through a custom replit.app URL, and will almost never restart.
Repls that have the âAlways Onâ setting (distinct from Deployments) still run in the standard Replit infrastructure, are accessible via the repl.co URL, and generally restart at least once per day.
We have discussed doing something like this soon!
I think that was intentional, because it will force users to use an external database hosting service, and replit has an (overpriced in my opinion) option ready for any user who can afford it.
I have an idea for the free tier of deployments: use the same unreliable VMs as the beta hosting, the ones that reboot all the time. I donât expect much out of a free service, especially one like Replit that wants to make a profit. If you give me something decent for free, I will be happy.
Links without a specified scheme default to http
. Most likely they wrote repl.co
instead of [repl.co](https://repl.co)
. Most popular websites (e.g. Google, Github, Replit) automatically redirect to HTTPS if possible, but this isnât built-in. While I donât know for certain, it doesnât seem like repl.co
was not programmed to account for accessing its home page without any subdomain, which is why there isnât any redirection. (Feel free to prove me wrong, though.)
I hope this helps