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Seems like someone posted a link to a project that made self-hosting a previously Heroku hosted site simple, but I can't find it now... ...would be cool if the

Seems like someone posted a link to a project that made self-hosting a previously Heroku hosted site simple, but I can't find it now... ...would be cool if there was a Linux package (or distro) that you could boot-up and then just change your git remote to and have your app up-and-running on your own hardware.

zrail 14y ago
I made Dokuen a few weeks ago, maybe that's what you're thinking of? If you're willing to live with a few warts, it's working pretty well for my personal use. My blog is still on Heroku so you can't really read about it now, but you can check out the code. https://github.com/peterkeen/dokuen https://github.com/peterkeen/dokuen
- whalesalad 14y ago
  I saw this a while ago and will actually be using it very shortly to deploy 3-4 internal apps on our own mini cloud. I love Heroku and can't stand all of the open source "alternatives" like Cloud Foundry. Yours is exactly what I wanted and I can't wait to really start using it and contributing via github! Thanks again!
- jasongullickson 14y ago
  This looks very interesting; thanks for the link!
jasongullickson 14y ago
This is what I was thinking of (I think): http://cloudfoundry.org/ http://cloudfoundry.org/
jeffh 14y ago
This was in the recent Heroku down thread. You might be interested in Stackato (http://www.activestate.com/stackato http://www.activestate.com/stackato). It is based on Cloud Foundry, with numerous enhancements, including support for Heroku buildpacks (http://docs.stackato.com/languages/buildpack.html http://docs.stackato.com/languages/buildpack.html). Heroku-in-a-box - give it a try. BTW, while the point is to enable private paas, you won't get around the issues that hit sites like this without heeding all the warnings and recommendations about building in redundancy for high availability. This was noted well in this post: http://www.newvem.com/blog/main/2012/06/aws-cloud-best-practice-introduction-to-high-availability-deployment.html http://www.newvem.com/blog/main/2012/06/aws-cloud-best-pract... """It is a lot cheaper to add 1% uptime to a 95% SLA than it is to add 0.09% to a 99.9% SLA. Cloud application vendors (SaaS) need to pay very close attention to the additional resources that are invested in order to support a 99.9XX…% uptime SLA, and perhaps build it into their pricing plans."""
- jasongullickson 14y ago
  Yeah I'm just evaluating options, if nothing else it would be excellent to have the equivalent of a "donut spare" on private hardware that we could throw on when events like this occur (although having done plenty of "self-hosted" sites during the first boom, I'm always running the numbers for either option).

zrail 14y ago

I made Dokuen a few weeks ago, maybe that's what you're thinking of? If you're willing to live with a few warts, it's working pretty well for my personal use. My blog is still on Heroku so you can't really read about it now, but you can check out the code. https://github.com/peterkeen/dokuen https://github.com/peterkeen/dokuen

whalesalad 14y ago
I saw this a while ago and will actually be using it very shortly to deploy 3-4 internal apps on our own mini cloud. I love Heroku and can't stand all of the open source "alternatives" like Cloud Foundry. Yours is exactly what I wanted and I can't wait to really start using it and contributing via github! Thanks again!
jasongullickson 14y ago
This looks very interesting; thanks for the link!

jasongullickson 14y ago

This is what I was thinking of (I think): http://cloudfoundry.org/ http://cloudfoundry.org/

jeffh 14y ago

This was in the recent Heroku down thread. You might be interested in Stackato (http://www.activestate.com/stackato http://www.activestate.com/stackato). It is based on Cloud Foundry, with numerous enhancements, including support for Heroku buildpacks (http://docs.stackato.com/languages/buildpack.html http://docs.stackato.com/languages/buildpack.html). Heroku-in-a-box - give it a try. BTW, while the point is to enable private paas, you won't get around the issues that hit sites like this without heeding all the warnings and recommendations about building in redundancy for high availability. This was noted well in this post: http://www.newvem.com/blog/main/2012/06/aws-cloud-best-practice-introduction-to-high-availability-deployment.html http://www.newvem.com/blog/main/2012/06/aws-cloud-best-pract... """It is a lot cheaper to add 1% uptime to a 95% SLA than it is to add 0.09% to a 99.9% SLA. Cloud application vendors (SaaS) need to pay very close attention to the additional resources that are invested in order to support a 99.9XX…% uptime SLA, and perhaps build it into their pricing plans."""

jasongullickson 14y ago
Yeah I'm just evaluating options, if nothing else it would be excellent to have the equivalent of a "donut spare" on private hardware that we could throw on when events like this occur (although having done plenty of "self-hosted" sites during the first boom, I'm always running the numbers for either option).