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This comes at a perfect time for me, I've been playing around a lot with Node.js lately and I've been looking around for a way to host it. I don't want to pay $

by ique 16y ago

This comes at a perfect time for me, I've been playing around a lot with Node.js lately and I've been looking around for a way to host it. I don't want to pay $20 a month for a VPS for an experimental fun-application, and http://elusivehippo.com/ http://elusivehippo.com/ just tells me that I'm not looking for some droids. Not only is real-time application support a huge step, but the way Heroku has listened to its customers here to implement Node.js support is amazing.

prasanamishra 16y ago
hmm It's worth give a try on heroku... I looked at http://elusivehippo.com/.. http://elusivehippo.com/... the price seems outrageous min $63 per month... is this the standard price??
- thegoleffect 16y ago
  Sorry about that. ElusiveHippo originally started as a python deployment system for higut.com. I ended up needing to create a demo/portfolio site to show prospective employers how I could pick up new technology. So I very quickly wrote a node version, released it into the wild, and waited to see how far it would go on its own. Then, I disappeared to San Francisco for a week without checking back on it. None of the details on the site are standard or set in stone - all the pricing numbers were completely made up. Not only that, but there's actually no indication that the system works at all, is there? :) There are about 20 working alpha accounts in various hands, but it doesn't really matter if it worked or not - there's clearly been some effects ^_^. Again, sorry for any confusion. I could write a blog post about the details, the implementation, and the aftermath if people were interested. Then, people could fairly easily implement their own. I've converted many ex-PHP, ex-Rails, ex-Django coders to nodejs using this demo site!
swah 16y ago
A VPS could be easily shared if you have couple friends interested...
samdk 16y ago
http://prgmr.com/ http://prgmr.com/ doesn't have space available right now, but they have VPS plans starting at $5/month and I've heard good things about them from people on HN.
- nfriedly 16y ago
  Seconded. I have a server on prgmr.com right now that's running node.js and I've been very pleased. Fast servers and and perfect uptime, so far. Sign up for the waiting list if you're interested. The only konck against them besides the waiting list is that it takes a day or so from when you purchase the VPS to when It's ready.
- bretthoerner 16y ago
  Run by one of our very own: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lsc http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lsc
- uggedal 16y ago
  Prgmr is great if you need a small affordable instance and don't need to worry too much about performance (http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison). I use one 256MB instance ($8/month) as a development box.
- ique 16y ago
  Yes I've been on the waiting list for one of those for a while, even with Heroku supporting Node.js I would get one. It is a very good price and it's always nice to have a small VPS for random stuff.
- wwortiz 16y ago
  They are great I have one that I use for fun stuff and netbsd is a pretty easy setup if you want it. Once they email you that they have new VPS's be sure to sign up pretty quickly though because they run out fast.
rgrieselhuber 16y ago
Rackspace Cloud instances come in at $10 / mo for the smallest size.
- cmelbye 16y ago
  That doesn't include bandwidth costs though. $0.22/GB for outgoing traffic, and $0.08/GB for incoming traffic.
  - rgrieselhuber 16y ago
    True, but he said it was a small app.
- ique 16y ago
  I didn't know that! Thanks :)
pufuwozu 16y ago
I know how you feel. I even hacked up a CGI library for node.js so I could host it on a shared server: http://brianmckenna.org/blog/nodejs_via_cgi http://brianmckenna.org/blog/nodejs_via_cgi It would have been great if this came out a few days earlier...
marcusbooster 16y ago
Does anyone have an experience with http://burst.net http://burst.net ? Their VPS starts at 5.95/month (512M) and 9.95/month (1G), cheapest I've seen but I don't know anything about them.

by ique 16y ago

prasanamishra 16y ago

hmm It's worth give a try on heroku... I looked at http://elusivehippo.com/.. http://elusivehippo.com/... the price seems outrageous min $63 per month... is this the standard price??

thegoleffect 16y ago
Sorry about that. ElusiveHippo originally started as a python deployment system for higut.com. I ended up needing to create a demo/portfolio site to show prospective employers how I could pick up new technology. So I very quickly wrote a node version, released it into the wild, and waited to see how far it would go on its own. Then, I disappeared to San Francisco for a week without checking back on it. None of the details on the site are standard or set in stone - all the pricing numbers were completely made up. Not only that, but there's actually no indication that the system works at all, is there? :) There are about 20 working alpha accounts in various hands, but it doesn't really matter if it worked or not - there's clearly been some effects ^_^. Again, sorry for any confusion. I could write a blog post about the details, the implementation, and the aftermath if people were interested. Then, people could fairly easily implement their own. I've converted many ex-PHP, ex-Rails, ex-Django coders to nodejs using this demo site!

swah 16y ago

A VPS could be easily shared if you have couple friends interested...

samdk 16y ago

http://prgmr.com/ http://prgmr.com/ doesn't have space available right now, but they have VPS plans starting at $5/month and I've heard good things about them from people on HN.

nfriedly 16y ago
Seconded. I have a server on prgmr.com right now that's running node.js and I've been very pleased. Fast servers and and perfect uptime, so far. Sign up for the waiting list if you're interested. The only konck against them besides the waiting list is that it takes a day or so from when you purchase the VPS to when It's ready.
bretthoerner 16y ago
Run by one of our very own: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lsc http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lsc
uggedal 16y ago
Prgmr is great if you need a small affordable instance and don't need to worry too much about performance (http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison). I use one 256MB instance ($8/month) as a development box.
ique 16y ago
Yes I've been on the waiting list for one of those for a while, even with Heroku supporting Node.js I would get one. It is a very good price and it's always nice to have a small VPS for random stuff.
wwortiz 16y ago
They are great I have one that I use for fun stuff and netbsd is a pretty easy setup if you want it. Once they email you that they have new VPS's be sure to sign up pretty quickly though because they run out fast.

rgrieselhuber 16y ago

Rackspace Cloud instances come in at $10 / mo for the smallest size.

cmelbye 16y ago
That doesn't include bandwidth costs though. $0.22/GB for outgoing traffic, and $0.08/GB for incoming traffic.
- rgrieselhuber 16y ago
  True, but he said it was a small app.
ique 16y ago
I didn't know that! Thanks :)

pufuwozu 16y ago

I know how you feel. I even hacked up a CGI library for node.js so I could host it on a shared server: http://brianmckenna.org/blog/nodejs_via_cgi http://brianmckenna.org/blog/nodejs_via_cgi It would have been great if this came out a few days earlier...

marcusbooster 16y ago

Does anyone have an experience with http://burst.net http://burst.net ? Their VPS starts at 5.95/month (512M) and 9.95/month (1G), cheapest I've seen but I don't know anything about them.