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I recommend against using Zeit. I tried their offering this year and it was too much in beta. I honestly couldn't even get a basic service deployed because my d

I recommend against using Zeit. I tried their offering this year and it was too much in beta. I honestly couldn't even get a basic service deployed because my defined dependencies wouldn't install. My web service deployed fine using the serverless offering of another cloud that I won't name, although it was not AWS. As a disclaimer, I have no conflict of interest.

Untit1ed 8y ago
Now is hit-and-miss for me. Works great for the most part but they seem more focused on moving fast than stability. At one point they (without any warning that I could see) turned on a CDN for all my deployments that didn't take the host header into account... so suddenly all the various URLs leading to my landing page generator all returned a single customer's page. Annoying.
JMTQp8lwXL 8y ago
They killed their Docker offering right about after they launched it, mostly because it's too difficult/expensive to scale containers, so they forced their entire user base onto the serverless paradigm, because it was convenient for them. Their PR story is it's "better for everyone", except there remain use cases (aka websocket support) that remain unsolved for months on their new platform. To give them credit, they didn't fully deprecate Docker-- old customers can use it, for an indeterminate amount of time.
- nahtnam 8y ago
  Anyone know of an alternate hosting service that is as simple as including a Dockerfile and changing your DNS, other than Zeit and Heroku?
  - Rotareti 8y ago
    How about https://github.com/dokku/dokku https://github.com/dokku/dokku ? There is a one-click install for Dokku on digitlocean.
  - hurricaneSlider 8y ago
    Azure Web Apps are pretty close.
  - 7qbosd 8y ago
    Not exactly a hosting service, but this is (very) simple Dockerfile deployment: https://github.com/snowjs/cli/tree/secrets https://github.com/snowjs/cli/tree/secrets
  - fulafel 8y ago
    GAE is pretty close. See eg https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-custom-runtimes-samples/tree/master/elixir https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-custom-runt...
- k__ 8y ago
  Too difficult to scale containers? Do you have a source for this?
- regularfry 8y ago
  Heh, that's precisely what Amazon did early on. "It's difficult to make servers reliably persist at scale, so everyone should learn how to not need persistent servers, which is better for everyone".
bdickason 8y ago
I’ve been using zeit / now for the past two months to host static sites and it’s been excellent. Haven’t tried a node app yet but their core service seems really easy to use and I haven’t had any issues.

Untit1ed 8y ago

Now is hit-and-miss for me. Works great for the most part but they seem more focused on moving fast than stability. At one point they (without any warning that I could see) turned on a CDN for all my deployments that didn't take the host header into account... so suddenly all the various URLs leading to my landing page generator all returned a single customer's page. Annoying.

JMTQp8lwXL 8y ago

They killed their Docker offering right about after they launched it, mostly because it's too difficult/expensive to scale containers, so they forced their entire user base onto the serverless paradigm, because it was convenient for them. Their PR story is it's "better for everyone", except there remain use cases (aka websocket support) that remain unsolved for months on their new platform. To give them credit, they didn't fully deprecate Docker-- old customers can use it, for an indeterminate amount of time.

nahtnam 8y ago
Anyone know of an alternate hosting service that is as simple as including a Dockerfile and changing your DNS, other than Zeit and Heroku?
- Rotareti 8y ago
  How about https://github.com/dokku/dokku https://github.com/dokku/dokku ? There is a one-click install for Dokku on digitlocean.
- hurricaneSlider 8y ago
  Azure Web Apps are pretty close.
- 7qbosd 8y ago
  Not exactly a hosting service, but this is (very) simple Dockerfile deployment: https://github.com/snowjs/cli/tree/secrets https://github.com/snowjs/cli/tree/secrets
- fulafel 8y ago
  GAE is pretty close. See eg https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-custom-runtimes-samples/tree/master/elixir https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-custom-runt...
k__ 8y ago
Too difficult to scale containers? Do you have a source for this?
regularfry 8y ago
Heh, that's precisely what Amazon did early on. "It's difficult to make servers reliably persist at scale, so everyone should learn how to not need persistent servers, which is better for everyone".

bdickason 8y ago

I’ve been using zeit / now for the past two months to host static sites and it’s been excellent. Haven’t tried a node app yet but their core service seems really easy to use and I haven’t had any issues.