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OpenShift from Red Hat is often cited as a competitive offering in Heroku vs X reviews. When I first checked it out they hadn't yet come out of beta. Uses git just like Heroku. Has a similar "dyno" concept but calls them gears. Has a free developer version. Don't know about support today, but the people I talked to from the team were incredibly helpful.
It scales automaticaly, analyzing the resource you need on your server, and you only pay what you use, like electricity.
It supports actually PHP, Scala, Ruby, Java, Node JS, and it's still upgrading. Also they have deployed PostgreSQL, MySQL, CouchBase and they are working on MongoDB integration, and ElasticSearch as well.
This company is pretty young, so they have a good support, as they care for their customer. I don't hesitate to send them an email and then give a call, or to tweet their account. Usually I get an answer under 2 hours.
Short story: I used to work with Play 2.0 and MongoDB, and had several issues on Heroku because of a problem on their side with the MongoDB driver. They didn't help in 3 days. With Clever-Cloud, everything worked perfectly, and they even helped me to deploy my app the first time. I immediately migrated my apps from Heroku, no regrets since.
I'd definitely recommend http://clever-cloud.com/ It scales automaticaly, analyzing the resource you need on your server, and you only pay what you use, like electricity. It supports actually PHP, Scala, Ruby, Java, Node JS, and it's still upgrading. Also they have deployed PostgreSQL, MySQL, CouchBase and they are working on MongoDB integration, and ElasticSearch as well. This company is pretty young, so they have a…
In my experience Dotcloud has the advantage of giving you more control over your instances and the ability to SSH into them. But I had issues with the reliability of deployment there. I used to love the sandbox, but I dropped Dotcloud as a provider after that was removed without a drop-in replacement. However, I still use them to serve Redis, and so far, it's way cheaper than using a dedicated Redis service. I looked…
> giving you more control over your instances and the ability to SSH into them. FWIW you can do: heroku run bash Which let's you mess around on a new dyno (not an existing one).
I'd definitely recommend http://clever-cloud.com/ It scales automaticaly, analyzing the resource you need on your server, and you only pay what you use, like electricity. It supports actually PHP, Scala, Ruby, Java, Node JS, and it's still upgrading. Also they have deployed PostgreSQL, MySQL, CouchBase and they are working on MongoDB integration, and ElasticSearch as well. This company is pretty young, so they have a…
I have never heard of this service, but looking at their pricing page, they seem to have made it as obscure as possible.
Maybe because it's French eheh. We don't have the same politics to go global!
For their pricing page, you buy Drops, which is like fuel for your car. They offer a better documentation here: http://doc.clever-cloud.com/pricing/ It will go from $600 (classical apps) to $2400 (huge apps) a year.
They designed their offer to be cheaper than AWS with same or better performances.
They also support Heroku's buildpack API and compared to Heroku, they have a lot of support options.
In my experience Dotcloud has the advantage of giving you more control over your instances and the ability to SSH into them. But I had issues with the reliability of deployment there. I used to love the sandbox, but I dropped Dotcloud as a provider after that was removed without a drop-in replacement. However, I still use them to serve Redis, and so far, it's way cheaper than using a dedicated Redis service. I looked…
> giving you more control over your instances and the ability to SSH into them. FWIW you can do: heroku run bash Which let's you mess around on a new dyno (not an existing one).