What is "The Lounge"?

"The Lounge" is a self-hosted web IRC client. It's a fork of Shout, which is no longer maintained. The Lounge is actively maintained and has a lot of features.

Screen shot:

Website:

https://thelounge.chat/

Deploy on Fly.io

Follow these steps to deploy "The Lounge" on Fly.io:

1. Create Dockerfile

FROM thelounge/thelounge:latest

EXPOSE 9000

2. Create new Fly.io app

Run fly launch and follow the instruction. You can choose any name and server region you want.

Or you can copy this fly.toml file (replace <app-name> with your app name):

# fly.toml file generated for iirc on 2022-11-17T21:46:27+07:00

app = "<app-name>"
kill_signal = "SIGINT"
kill_timeout = 5
processes = []

[env]

[experimental]
  allowed_public_ports = []
  auto_rollback = true

[mounts]
source="ircdata"
destination="/var/opt/thelounge"

[[services]]
  http_checks = []
  internal_port = 9000
  processes = ["app"]
  protocol = "tcp"
  script_checks = []
  [services.concurrency]
    hard_limit = 25
    soft_limit = 20
    type = "connections"

  [[services.ports]]
    force_https …

Fly.io - A review

After a month trying Fly.io, I must say that:

Fly.io is awesome!.

After a year using Hosthatch, I tired of their terrible uptime, sometime the servers is down for 2 days. I'm not sure why, but I'm sure that I'm not going back to them.

Luckily, I've found Fly.io. It's cheap, fast and reliable. I'm moving all my services to Fly.io. And to be honest, it's so easy that make me feel like I'm cheating.

Guide to migrate

If you have a Dockerfile for your service, you can migrate to Fly.io in 5 minutes.

Here are some examples.

Vaultwarden (No Postgres, No Redis)

Create Dockerfile

FROM vaultwarden/server:latest

Launch a new app

Run fly launch and follow the instruction. You can choose any name and server region you want.

After deployed, you can access at <app-name>.fly.dev.

Create new …