lvangool

Moving data is always the trickiest part! We get a lot of Heroku customers who need help with their data migration. My honest answer is there will always be some downtime while the switch over is happening, but we know of a few ways to reduce it. Unfortunately Heroku PG databases don't allow outside replication setup, so we can't really baseline your data and then close the replication gap with a shorter downtime. But we do support multi-DB solutions so we can run against an old and new DB at the same time while data is gradually being moved over. If you're interested, ping me at hello-at-cloud66.com if you want to discuss further :)

lvangool

3년 전discuss

This precisely the niche Cloud 66 tries to fill, it caters for the growth businesses, providing initial ease but without sacrificing control. This allows companies to grow without being forced out before they are ready. (Disclaimer: I work for Cloud 66)

lvangool

8년 전discuss

Ps. anyone running debian strech can get this via stretch-backports:

  echo "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/stretch-backports.list 
  apt-get update
  apt-get -t stretch-backports install git

lvangool

8년 전discuss

Its there - thanks ;)

lvangool

8년 전discuss

Hmm - the "official" git PPA isn't updated yet: https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ubuntu/ppa. Wonder if this due to dependencies or oversight?

lvangool

9년 전discuss

Hey @hardwaresofton check out Cloud 66 https://www.cloud66.com/containers - Caveat... I work there :)

lvangool

11년 전discuss

We're using weave a lot at Cloud 66; we find for the majority use-case inter-container comms at this throughput is sufficient; for high throughput endpoints like DBs there is an argument for not putting them in containers in the first place… (but thats another discussion)

lvangool

13년 전discuss

I guess where we are attempting to be different is we are providing this functionality in a vendor agnostic way (ie. also for Linode, Joyent, Telefonica - Digital Ocean and Rackspace coming soon, and support for standalone servers in Hetzner, or your private cloud, or even under your desk for example)

As well as just supporting your preferred vendor (based on price, location, guaranteed location, SLA etc) it means that we can offer you a way to switch between vendors if that vendor has some down-time, or doesn't meet your changing requirements as you move forward.

Also, we are really trying to be as application centric as possible - everything stems from your application code - and then provide the ongoing management tools you need on top of that (for easy scaling, backups, scheduled tasks, migrations, reporting etc)

Great feedback from everyone! We didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night!

lvangool

13년 전discuss

Yep thats also already on our roadmap!

lvangool

13년 전discuss

Yep - we've got Django in our roadmap too!

lvangool

13년 전discuss

Thanks for the question - there is a little more detail here: https://www.cloud66.com/help/cloud66_stack

Happy to answer specific questions

lvangool

13년 전discuss

Yep! Digital Ocean just released the bit of their API we needed - so yes they'll be supported soon!

lvangool

13년 전discuss

Actually you get to choose what sizes you want (whichever cloud provider you choose). See here: http://blog.cloud66.com/post/39922150128/custom-server-sizes...

lvangool

14년 전discuss

Excellent article - being in a startup myself this is always in the back of my mind. An approach we are adopting is to purposefully not capture explicit details of the conversations, rather just discussing each conversation openly afterwards, and allowing our own minds to map-reduce to the important points. When those points become fairly static, then I believe we are there.

lvangool

14년 전discuss

Interestingly I was discussing this with some friends last night (trying to solve the worlds problems on the back of a napkin as always :) One suggestion was to try and crowdsource deliveries in cities, ie. have depots centralised around public transport areas. But how to deal with security?

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