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To actually get to the site you need to go to http://www.koding.com http://www.koding.com, there didn't seem to be any link in the docs. The fact they publicly

by beck5 13y ago

To actually get to the site you need to go to http://www.koding.com http://www.koding.com, there didn't seem to be any link in the docs. The fact they publicly say its free does not strike me as a strength, how are they going to pay the bills to store all of my data? It looks like it started life as an online php editor (kodingen.com) but now has broadened out to supporting vms with 'social' stuff. Some of the main competitors are: - https://c9.io/ https://c9.io/ - http://compilr.com http://compilr.com - https://codenvy.com https://codenvy.com The general experience after playing with it for a few minutes is quite nice, robust file tree, good editor (ace), interesting news feed.

skinofstars 13y ago
It looks to be that additional VMs cost money, so there's a business model to start with. btw, your compilr link goes to a domain squatter.
- cdman 13y ago
  Either s/he edited the link or your DNS is hijacked since it works for me :-)
gexla 13y ago
Heroku provides free VM's also. Though the dyno's apparently go idle if not hit by traffic in X time. Also, of course you don't get full SSH access to do whatever you want.
- kencausey 13y ago
  The same is true for Koding. From the linked page: "Approximately 20 minutes after you log out, your Free VMs will shut down." followed shortly by "Note: In the future Paid Always-On VMs will be an option. This is currently not available though."
leeolayvar 13y ago
I'm the koding user (not staffer) who wrote the docs, good point on the Koding link. I never expected anyone to be reading the docs who didn't know the url for Koding, but both Reddit and Here have linked to the docs directly. Not sure why, but i'll add a link to Koding from the docs today. Thanks for the feedback :) edit: https://github.com/koding/docs/issues/72 https://github.com/koding/docs/issues/72

by beck5 13y ago

skinofstars 13y ago

It looks to be that additional VMs cost money, so there's a business model to start with. btw, your compilr link goes to a domain squatter.

cdman 13y ago
Either s/he edited the link or your DNS is hijacked since it works for me :-)

gexla 13y ago

Heroku provides free VM's also. Though the dyno's apparently go idle if not hit by traffic in X time. Also, of course you don't get full SSH access to do whatever you want.

kencausey 13y ago
The same is true for Koding. From the linked page: "Approximately 20 minutes after you log out, your Free VMs will shut down." followed shortly by "Note: In the future Paid Always-On VMs will be an option. This is currently not available though."

leeolayvar 13y ago

I'm the koding user (not staffer) who wrote the docs, good point on the Koding link. I never expected anyone to be reading the docs who didn't know the url for Koding, but both Reddit and Here have linked to the docs directly. Not sure why, but i'll add a link to Koding from the docs today. Thanks for the feedback :) edit: https://github.com/koding/docs/issues/72 https://github.com/koding/docs/issues/72