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All good feedback. However the one giant caveat is that most developers don't know how much memory their application needs.

• cardmagic 14y ago
  Most people don't know how much disk space an email takes, it didn't stop Gmail from just giving 2gb free disk space.
  • shykes 14y ago
    Yes - exactly like dotCloud's sandbox :)
    • cardmagic 14y ago
      Except Gmail isn't just free for drafting emails, it is free when you send them to real people too.
      • KenCochrane 14y ago
        dotCloud doesn't have ads, to pay for the service like gmail. :)
  • pbreit 14y ago
    But 2gb sounds like a lot and 32mb sounds like nothing. When a service like rackspace _starts_ at 256mb you wonder just what you are getting.
    • shykes 14y ago
      What you're getting is the ability to deploy linux containers with very fine-grained control over resource allocation. Maybe you're using redis as a job queue, or to hold a handful of counters. Maybe you're running nginx to serve static assets with custom rewrite rules. You can run it dotCloud and pay peanuts - knowing that you're one "dotcloud scale" away from all the gigabytes of ram you can eat.
• moe 14y ago
  That's why you (in addition to all that has been said) should make very clear how easy it is to up- and downgrade. Also there could be small hints next to the slider (yes, I'm a fan of sliders;)) as it snaps into the various positions... But those are again just ideas. You should get a good designer on the case, this is their bread & butter.
• x1 14y ago
  That's easily solved Have a slider. When you move it have a window that lists what applications can be served with the selected allotment. Hell... that'd be pretty damn cool looking