now alias - maximum number of concurrent instances exceeded

[maticzav]

Hi,

I have noticed that whenever I run now alias, which repoints new deployment to my url, it first creates the new scaled version of new instance and only later on downscales the old one. Due to this many attempts to alias my webpage fail, as the number of concurrent instances is exceeded.

Would it be possible to first downscale the old deployment and then upscale the new one?

[ewolfe]

You would lose out on "zero downtime" deployments. You could do something like:

now scale example.now.sh 1
now
now alias
now rm example --safe --yes

[leo]

Thank you so much for the effort you have put into this issue! 😊

However, since we completely re-worked the entire codebase of Now CLI and this issue does not apply to the new code anymore, I'm closing it now.

As of Now 2.0, there are no instances anymore.

You can read more about our biggest release yet here: https://zeit.co/blog/now-2