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Seems like a great thing to pitch to universities and schools. Can't see the use for general development. Hosting costs for your own slice is so low, and it gi
by railsjedi 18y ago
Seems like a great thing to pitch to universities and schools.
Can't see the use for general development. Hosting costs for your own slice is so low, and it gives you so much more freedom that a developer would have to be crazy to limit their options to only what appjet give them.
Plus AppJet is still a small company so its not going to have the scalability of something like EC2 or Google AppEngine.
- aaroniba 18y agoI actually agree with your assessment that AppJet seems limited as compared to renting your own server or part of a server, for general development. The original idea of AppJet was for it to be a place for simple 1-page apps -- apps where the effort required to set up hosting greatly exceeded the effort to code the app. A natural extension of this was to write a guide to teach people how to program. AppJet is still the only place I know of where you can learn to program and actually build an app that you can share with friends via a URL, all without downloading any software or configuring a development environment. Now we are working on addressing all the limitations of AppJet as compared to having your own server, and therefore make it a platform that you'd use for more "serious" apps, not just 1-pagers. Hopefully when we release the next version, you'll give us another look and decide we compare favorably to the alternatives for general development.