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Nodester acquired by AppFog
- logn 14y agoAnybody know the numbers involved?
- fruchtose 14y agoI just saw this e-mail. Oh, days of free hosting, I knew you were numbered! ;) These guys are super cool, and I'm not just saying that because they currently host my side project (http://muxamp.com/ http://muxamp.com/). Nodester's software is super easy to use, works great, and makes nice use of Git. Chris Matthieu and co. deserve recognition for their work.
- malachismith 14y agoAppFog is actually free for 2GB of RAM....
- fruchtose 14y agoThanks for letting me know! I got the impression hosting would become a paid service from this paragraph in the announcement email: "As part of the AppFog family, Nodester users will now be able to use the same PaaS for their Ruby and Java apps that they use for their Node apps. It brings the serious support and operational excellence of AppFog to our users, enabling them to run production and enterprise workloads on their developer PaaS. Perhaps most significant of all - it allows Nodester users to deploy apps to a wide range of different IaaS providers - at a highly competitive price" (emphasis is mine).
- krobertson 14y agoYou pay if you go over 2GB usage. If your apps only use a single instance and <64mb RAM, you could have 32 apps before paying.
- JeremyMorgan 14y agoExactly and that's plenty of sandbox to play around in. I have a few apps set up with them right now, nowhere near my limit. AppFog has a ton of options, and their setup is super easy. Deploying apps is as simple as doing a git push and the service is super fast. I am a total fanboy.
- noformnocontent 14y agoIs this a social media expert consultant robo-comment? Coz i read it in "the Fred" voice, and it sounded "right".
- JeremyMorgan 14y agoI'm not a robot, or a social media expert consultant, whatever that is.
- davedx 14y agoAwesome news! This actually cements my choice of nodester for now :)
- cmatthieu 14y agoThanks! It's been an open source project of love for over 1.5 years. The future of Node.JS with AppFog and Nodester are very bright. Hack the planet!
- malachismith 14y agoCongrats man!! Deserved and earned!
- js4all 14y agoCongrats Chris, this is big. We at Cloudnode know the value of Nodester for a long time now. Thanks for helping us to you and the team.
- wamatt 14y agoBeen using Nodejitsu and Heroku, but been meaning to try going self-hosted PaaS. My possibly flawed perception, is that it's cheaper, but one has less support and more work, going that route. Whether that's true or not, I'm unsure.
- justincormack 14y ago"Platform as a service". If you self host its just a platform! It is true though that you can automate and provide yourself an infrastructure and keep separation of concerns.
- nodesocket 14y agoCongratulations Chris.
- malachismith 14y agoSeriously! Good to see the good guys win one!
- nodesocket 14y agoChris and Nodester launched a few months before us (NodeSocket) and always respected that Nodester was open source and free.
- benologist 14y agoSomeone really needs to make a service that will spread an app out across compatible platforms automatically based on price and availability. Kind of like a multi-PAAS HireFireApp that also handles deployment.
- cardmagic 14y agoAppFog did one better, one low price across any infrastructure, even in some cases lower than using the IaaS directly
- benologist 14y agoDo they do load balancing and stuff between locations and route around anywhere with issues? That would be amazing. Balancing between multiple companies I think would still be better just because of different middlewares and the cascading nature of problems at high scale though.
- EwanToo 14y agoUnfortunately not, they currently just let you pick which location (AWS US East, Ireland, Rackspace are the main options I think?) you deploy your app to. You could deploy the same codebase to 2 locations and use DNS to load balance / failover between them, but that's not great.
- btipling 14y agoCool, I met these guys when I worked out of the SOMA Rackspace office. Very impressive people. Hope this was a good thing for them.
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- salman89 14y agoCool. Tried out appfog, was pretty straight forward and easy to use. No SSL support as of yet though, so not committing to them. Need a node.js PaaS that supports both sockets and SSL. Haven't found anything yet.
- malachismith 14y agoSSL coming very very soon...
- baggachipz 14y agoHow can anybody use the word "syngergistic" with a straight face, much less in a press release?
- mr-etcs-nemesis 14y agohow much of the Nodester codebase comes from NodeJitsu?