BREAKING: Fly.io MAJOR 🔴 Ingress Traffic Issues in GRU — Workarounds Inside

Fly.io experiencing significant ingress traffic disruption in São Paulo region. Immediate workarounds and monitoring guidance for affected indie hackers.

BREAKING: Fly.io Ingress Traffic Issues in GRU Region

Status: Identified | Severity: MAJOR | Last Updated: [TIMESTAMP]

What's Down & Who's Affected

Fly.io is currently experiencing ingress traffic issues in the GRU (São Paulo, Brazil) region. This means:

Incoming HTTP/HTTPS requests to apps deployed in GRU are degraded or failing

Users attempting to reach your application experience timeouts or connection errors

The issue affects all application types running in this region

If your primary or failover region is GRU, you're impacted now

Who specifically: Indie hackers with apps deployed to gru.fly.dev or routing through this region as primary/secondary.

Immediate Actions (RIGHT NOW)

1. Check Your Deployment Region

```bash fly status fly apps list fly regions list ``` Look for any apps deployed to gru. If yes, proceed to workarounds below.

2. Emergency Workarounds

Option A: Migrate to Alternative Region (Fastest)

Deploy to syd (Sydney), iad (Virginia), or lhr (London) immediately

```bash fly regions add syd fly scale count 1 --region syd fly regions remove gru fly deploy ```

DNS will update within minutes

Minimal code changes required

Option B: Enable Failover (If Multi-Region)

If already multi-region, traffic should auto-failover

Verify with: fly status (check replica distribution)

Option C: Temporary Geolocation Workaround

Use Fly's Anycast DNS routing to prefer non-GRU regions

Add to fly.toml:

```toml [[services]] ports = { http = 80, https = 443 } http_checks = [{grace_period = "10s"}] ```

How to Check If You're Affected

1. Run this command: ```bash curl -I https://your-app.fly.dev ``` - Status 502/503 = affected - Status 200 = not affected or using different region

2. Check Fly Status Page: https://status.fly.io (official updates)

3. Verify region in dashboard: Fly.io Console → Your App → Deployments tab

Alternative Hosting (If Abandoning GRU Long-Term)

| Alternative | Best For | Setup Time | |---|---|---| | Railway | Drop-in Fly replacement | 5 min | | Render | Simple apps, auto-deploy | 10 min | | Vercel | Frontend + serverless | 2 min | | AWS Lightsail | Full control, higher cost | 20 min | | Hetzner | DIY VPS, very cheap | 30+ min |

Recommendation: Stick with Fly for now—this is isolated to GRU. Global service is unaffected.

Monitor Recovery

1. Watch Fly Status Dashboard: https://status.fly.io (subscribe to updates) 2. Monitor your app: ```bash watch -n 5 'fly status' ``` 3. Test ingress: Repeatedly curl your endpoint until 200 response 4. Expected recovery: 30-90 minutes (typical for regional ingress issues) 5. If not resolved in 2 hours: Open support ticket with Fly

Bottom Line

This is NOT a Fly.io platform failure. It's a localized GRU region issue. Moving to another region takes 5 minutes. All other regions operating normally. Indie hackers outside Brazil should see zero impact; Brazilian users will experience slowness/failures until you migrate.

Stay calm. Act fast. You've got options.

—Senior Ops, StillNotAThing