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  "path": "/posts/margin-downtime-03-07-26",
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  "title": "Margin Downtime 03/07/26",
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        "plaintext": "Introduction"
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        "plaintext": "I tried to migrate Margin out of Railway, but really didn’t know where…"
      },
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        "level": 2,
        "plaintext": "Fly.io"
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        "plaintext": "I tried initially to move the main backend and web app to Fly.io, that’s fine, but I realized that with all the traffic I was probably going to regret that."
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        "level": 2,
        "plaintext": "Neon, Supabase, and other one I forgot the name of"
      },
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        "plaintext": "Our backend just doesn’t like Neon, Supabase doesn’t support IPv6 so I couldn’t run the migration (I don’t have IPv6), and the other one just was slow."
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      {
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        "level": 2,
        "plaintext": "Hetzner"
      },
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        "plaintext": "When we were in Hetzner before, it crashed the entire network. But, why not give it another try? So I deployed a cost-effective VM and later scaled to cx33."
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        "plaintext": "That’s where we are at now, hopefully Hetzner doesn’t crash again."
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        "level": 1,
        "plaintext": "Donate"
      },
      {
        "$type": "xyz.scanash.block.text",
        "plaintext": "If you want to help me try more expensive alternatives that might work better in the future, donate to Margin on Open Collective"
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  "description": "Margin went down...",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-08T02:10:59Z"
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