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The nice thing about Open Source PaaS is that you can scratch your own itches, add a Tornado pull request and pretty soon it could be running on AppFog.com or C

• shykes 15y ago
  Good news! You can now scratch your own itch on dotCloud. We've added support for custom builds, which means you can run Tornado, Thin and any other asynchronous web server you want. We're planning a blog post about it the coming days.
  • cardmagic 15y ago
    Except if you scratch your itch on dotCloud, you can't run it on your own laptop like you can with Cloud Foundry Micro or on other services that might have a better interface like AppFog. That's the problem with contributing to a closed source project.
    • shykes 15y ago
      Lucas, I think you're being unfair to the dotCloud community. If I scratch my itch on dotCloud and share a cool Wordpress [1] or Thin [2] stack, how is that not open? [1] https://github.com/qpleple/wordpress-on-dotcloud https://github.com/qpleple/wordpress-on-dotcloud [2] https://github.com/jpetazzo/thin https://github.com/jpetazzo/thin At the same time you mention in your blog: "Appfog has secret sauce that we did not contribute to the open source project, ways to optimize PHP and the experience around PHP". For the sake of openness, I encourage you to share your secret PHP sauce as a custom dotCloud build. There's a whole community of hackers doing the same.
      • cardmagic 15y ago
        It is not open because it is not portable. You can't take wordpress-on-dotcloud and deploy it on any other architecture or platform outside of dotCloud.