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DotCloud acquires Duostack, rolls out MongoDB support
- shykes 15y agoIt's a great day for the dotCloud and duostack communities! Both teams are lurking on HN to answer questions. We're only getting started folks!
- sgrove 15y agoCongrats Solomon, it's a very interesting direction. You already have some crazy momentum, I'm sure this'll only boost you farther! Excited to see what you guys roll out next!
- enoptix 15y agoThis is great news! I've been using Dotcloud at my job for about a month with an RoR app. We used to be on Heroku w/ Amazon RDS. And I needed a separate EC2 instance for stuff like phpMyAdmin and other misc scripts. We outgrew it quickly when we needed more control over Resque. Now with Dotcloud, I can run everything under one group with fine-grained control when I need it. Its awesome! The only thing I am missing is Memcache and MongoDB support (but it looks like thats coming soon ;D ). Also, an invite for personal use would be awesome!
- ollysb 15y agoWould love to see the duostack environment vars management added across the board on dotcloud.
- calloc 15y agoI've got some test deployments on DotCloud, the only thing I don't like is that I have no idea how much resources are going to cost, I can't find prices ANYWHERE on the website. I love how it all works, I love how fast it is and the deployment stuff couldn't have been easier (using it with git). Is there any word on pricing?
- enoptix 15y agoditto on this. I'm up to 9 instances of various types and pretty comfortable with everything. I hope the pricing is reasonable.
- shykes 15y agoPricing is very important to us. We won't keep you waiting much longer!
- fictorial 15y agoSounds familiar! :) "shykes 152 days ago Expect a pricing page very soon." Seriously, when are you going to post the pricing details? I hope it is something very straightforward such as $0.04/process-hour.
- shykes 15y agoTouche :) We went through a few iterations with test paid customers. It took a while to properly convey that our value is in reducing complexity, not selling ram. It's a long process but we're very close. I can tell you we have a date to reveal pricing, and we intend to stick to it.
- donw 15y agoDo you have a date to reveal the date to reveal pricing?
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- endlessvoid94 15y agoWow, congratulations to both companies. That was quick!
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoI've been using Duostack and love it (aside from the low db quotas). Should I be worried? What will the transition be like?
- shykes 15y agoMatthew, we'll work our asses off to make the transition as painless as possible. You should receive an email soon with all the details. Don't hesitate to get in touch with us directly.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoI'll be in touch, I was hoping to launch in the next week.
- shykes 15y agoWe'll make sure you can.
- barleyman20 15y agoWhy do you spend all this time building this platform, but then use Wufoo for your signup form? Doesn't give me a ton of confidence. Don't mean to sound cynical, just wondering.
- shykes 15y agoOur signup form changed a few times, and used to be much more elaborate. Tweaking it with Wufoo saved us lots of time - time we could spend on improving the platform :)
- ellisd 15y agoI wonder if they'll finish the support for basic data import commands with Mongo. Currently on Duostack I have yet to find a clear way to load dev data via all the db.copyDatabase or mongoimport/mongostore commands.
- daverecycles 15y agoYou can run mongoimport locally and specify your DotCloud MongoDB service as the remote host. You could also SSH to your MongoDB service (run "dotcloud ssh <namespace.deployment>") and do the same.
- mathias_10gen 15y agoOne thing you may want to consider adding to your client is a "mongotunnel" command which will set up an ssh tunnel with compression between the user's computer and your mongodb servers. I've noticed some significant performance benefit to this vs. just accessing mongod normally over the internet, mostly due to the abysmal upload rate on my cable modem. Also this allows you to avoid sending data in plain-text over the open internet.
- stephth 15y agoDuostack publicized upcoming support for autoscaling. Is that still in the roadmap?
- shykes 15y agoOh yes :)
- jackowayed 15y agoI predicted that this would happen the first time I mixed them up.
- inmygarage 15y agoCongrats to Dotcloud and Duostack! Exciting news.
- cellis 15y agoAny plans to support Tornado?
- spahl 15y agoYes tornado/gunicorn/thin/... support is planned. Stay tuned!
- nwmcsween 15y agoI've been thinking about something similar by using LXC with minimal capabilities. Using git, etc.. with 'stack' specific allowable file modifications (configuration and what not), is this how dotcloud works (minus the distributed FS and flow replication for HA)?
- shykes 15y agoYes, we use container technology. We were the first to do so (first prototypes in 2008) although others are catching on. That's not the key differentiator of the platform, though, anymore than Xen was for EC2.