Nodester acquired by AppFog(blog.nodester.com)
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Nodester acquired by AppFog
http://blog.nodester.com/post/30434216604/nodester-joins-appfog
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I 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/). 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.
AppFog is actually free for 2GB of RAM....
Thanks 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).
"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).
You 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.
Exactly 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.
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.
Is this a social media expert consultant robo-comment? Coz i read it in "the Fred" voice, and it sounded "right".
I'm not a robot, or a social media expert consultant, whatever that is.
Awesome news! This actually cements my choice of nodester for now :)
Thanks! 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!
Congrats man!! Deserved and earned!
Congrats 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.
We at Cloudnode know the value of Nodester for a long time now. Thanks for helping us to you and the team.
Been 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.
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.
"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.
It is true though that you can automate and provide yourself an infrastructure and keep separation of concerns.
how much of the Nodester codebase comes from NodeJitsu?
Anybody know the numbers involved?
Congratulations Chris.
Seriously! Good to see the good guys win one!
Chris and Nodester launched a few months before us (NodeSocket) and always respected that Nodester was open source and free.
Someone 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.
Kind of like a multi-PAAS HireFireApp that also handles deployment.
AppFog did one better, one low price across any infrastructure, even in some cases lower than using the IaaS directly
Do 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.
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.
Unfortunately 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.
Cool, 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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Cool. 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.
Need a node.js PaaS that supports both sockets and SSL. Haven't found anything yet.
SSL coming very very soon...
How can anybody use the word "syngergistic" with a straight face, much less in a press release?