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I'm intrigued by Convox... and since the founders / engineers are lurking, allow me to ask a few questions that might help convince someone like myself: - How

by beambot 11y ago

I'm intrigued by Convox... and since the founders / engineers are lurking, allow me to ask a few questions that might help convince someone like myself: - How do you handle updates? Heroku was on the early deployment for Postgres security patches. Will Convox deployments auto-upgrade, or do they require sys admin-style intervention on docker specifications to track security issues? - What about other popular addons: Postgres, Mailgun, NewRelic, etc? Are there equivalents? - Is it easy to setup automated backups and recovery for the database (eg. Heroku's pgbackups are amazing!). - And perhaps most importantly: I don't see any mention of pricing on your homepage...?

mwmanning 11y ago
Hey, Convox cofounder Matt here. Great questions! 1) You can update your Convox rack and cli using the cli. `convox update && convox system update`. http://docs.convox.com/docs/updating-convox/ http://docs.convox.com/docs/updating-convox/ 2) We're working on an RDS provisioning service today and hope to release something this weekend. We're also in early talks with other addon (we call them "services") providers. For now if you want to use one of these services you can connect to them using environment variables. http://docs.convox.com/docs/environment-variables/ http://docs.convox.com/docs/environment-variables/ 3) Our RDS service will eventually handle backups and recovery, but those features aren't implemented yet. We're also exploring partnering with other hosted database services that already have these features. 4) Convox is open source https://github.com/convox https://github.com/convox and totally free. You can use it however you want and you only have to pay for the AWS expenses. We're also experimenting with managed hosting, which we'll charge a small premium for, so please let me know if you're interested in that.

by beambot 11y ago

mwmanning 11y ago

Hey, Convox cofounder Matt here. Great questions! 1) You can update your Convox rack and cli using the cli. `convox update && convox system update`. http://docs.convox.com/docs/updating-convox/ http://docs.convox.com/docs/updating-convox/ 2) We're working on an RDS provisioning service today and hope to release something this weekend. We're also in early talks with other addon (we call them "services") providers. For now if you want to use one of these services you can connect to them using environment variables. http://docs.convox.com/docs/environment-variables/ http://docs.convox.com/docs/environment-variables/ 3) Our RDS service will eventually handle backups and recovery, but those features aren't implemented yet. We're also exploring partnering with other hosted database services that already have these features. 4) Convox is open source https://github.com/convox https://github.com/convox and totally free. You can use it however you want and you only have to pay for the AWS expenses. We're also experimenting with managed hosting, which we'll charge a small premium for, so please let me know if you're interested in that.