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Re: Show HN: GraphCMS – A GraphQL-based Headless CMS

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Post by everdev »

arpinum wrote: post #9
neeksHN wrote: post #2

It'd be rather refreshing if one of the headless CMS PaaS solutions could follow an open model similar to WordPress/Gitlab

Squidex is MIT license and has reasonable pricing for their cloud offering, also has graphQL support and more feature rich.

I'm not a fan of pricing with operation limits. 100k API calls per month? What happens in a DoS situation? If it's self-hosted I can blacklist and keep the app running for other users. For a surge in traffic, I can spin up other containers and scale. With managed hosting, my bill can go through the roof, or the the entire app gets shut down.

Re: Show HN: GraphCMS – A GraphQL-based Headless CMS

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Post by ericfrederich »

>> Can I host GraphCMS on my own servers? >> Please talk to sales to discuss deployment options.

This is not an answer. Talk to sales?

I don't mind paying for support. I'm not a fan of paying for enterprise features. I would never want a dependency to something which is not free.

Re: Show HN: GraphCMS – A GraphQL-based Headless CMS

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Post by jaequery »

les wrote: post #10

The scary thing to me is if a service like this stops, I have an angry client and a lot of work. Headless CMS's are a delight to work with though.

as a client, I would rather be paying a hosting company specializing in one area 24x7 rather than a dev maintaining the database on and off basis. there is nothing more infuriating than not being able to get a hold of the dev when your site is offline for whatever reasons.

Re: Show HN: GraphCMS – A GraphQL-based Headless CMS

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Post by mlukaszczyk »

shazzy wrote: post #19

Looks great, excited to try it out. Just skimming through the Documentation, is there any way to specify the Schema through an API? My use case that I want to define my schema somewhere, and have something which "syncs" the it with GraphCMS, is this possible?

You could use the management API for this. It's basically the same API the content management interface also speaks to. You can open up the API explorer and switch to the management API in the top bar and play around with it!

(fyi: the documentation is not released, yet)

Re: Show HN: GraphCMS – A GraphQL-based Headless CMS

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Post by mlukaszczyk »

shazzy wrote: post #19

Looks great, excited to try it out. Just skimming through the Documentation, is there any way to specify the Schema through an API? My use case that I want to define my schema somewhere, and have something which "syncs" the it with GraphCMS, is this possible?

PS: A CLI will also follow.

Re: Show HN: GraphCMS – A GraphQL-based Headless CMS

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Post by mlukaszczyk »

flossball wrote: post #20

Pretty cool, but I can't help but feel really soon that browsers will just implement a similar rich default GraphQL and there will be some CSS concept for it when there is no full app code loaded.

Can you please elaborate? How would that replace an API based CMS?

Re: Show HN: GraphCMS – A GraphQL-based Headless CMS

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Post by michaelmior »

flossball wrote: post #20

Pretty cool, but I can't help but feel really soon that browsers will just implement a similar rich default GraphQL and there will be some CSS concept for it when there is no full app code loaded.

What you're saying sounds intriguing, but I'm having a hard time understanding what is you're expecting browsers to implement.

Re: Show HN: GraphCMS – A GraphQL-based Headless CMS

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Post by mrkurt »

ericfrederich wrote: post #22

>> Can I host GraphCMS on my own servers? >> Please talk to sales to discuss deployment options. This is not an answer. Talk to sales? I don't mind paying for support. I'm not a fan of paying for enterprise features. I would never want a dependency to something which is not free.

It's a good answer, especially if you haven't built a self service, easy to deploy self hosted product. It's code for "yes but this is expensive and we'll likely have to do a lot of consulting to make it work".

Self hosting is a reasonable enterprise feature. Support is a difficult thing to build a business off of. It's fine if you don't want to pay for some kind of SaaS, but that's possibly the only way to build any kind of sustainable software business for developers.

Re: Show HN: GraphCMS – A GraphQL-based Headless CMS

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Post by mlukaszczyk »

ericfrederich wrote: post #22

>> Can I host GraphCMS on my own servers? >> Please talk to sales to discuss deployment options. This is not an answer. Talk to sales? I don't mind paying for support. I'm not a fan of paying for enterprise features. I would never want a dependency to something which is not free.

Our new architecture allows much more flexibility on the deployments, so just speak to us about your favorite setting. However, it is quite complex and we rather focus on delivering a high quality cloud infrastructure that works for everyone. I can understand your perspective but our mantra is to remain a SaaS company, which means to be able to focus on ONE code base. This allows us on delivering a higher quality product in the long run so all users can benefit from it.
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