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Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button

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Re: Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button

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Post by sungrokshim »

neeleshs wrote: post #3

Cool concept. In my experience, the biggest headache/expense is data migration, and not software migration. As long as the stack is vendor neutral, it's not the long-poll, though it is gruntwork. In the SaaS world, maybe this will be useful to run managed cloud services? (That is, customer A wants a private instance in AWS and customer B wants it in Azure)

Yes data migration is definitely the most gnarly part. We regularly migrate databases with zero downtime using Bucardo (we detail it here: https://www.porter.run/blog/migrating-postgres-from-heroku-t...) and will be addressing this part of the migration in the ejection process in the future as well.

Re: Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button

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Post by davedx »

sungrokshim wrote: post #19
davedx wrote: post #7

It's a great idea, but the pricing seems high - $30/month minimum? I'm running 3 apps on Fly.io and I'm still so low in the pricing that they're invoicing me $0. I will pay for the convenience of a PaaS - but not that much.

not sure where you saw $30/month minimum! There's no minimum spend on Porter, and you just pay for what you use as low as a 0.1 CPU and 1MB RAM. We do not have a free tier however.

Pricing page (developers). How can you have less than 1 CPU?

Re: Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button

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Post by sungrokshim »

davedx wrote: post #22
sungrokshim wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

not sure where you saw $30/month minimum! There's no minimum spend on Porter, and you just pay for what you use as low as a 0.1 CPU and 1MB RAM. We do not have a free tier however.

Pricing page (developers). How can you have less than 1 CPU?

You can adjust resources down to 0.01 vCPU and 1MB RAM granularity. Price is prorated accordingly

Re: Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button

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Post by com »

michaelmior wrote: post #15

Sounds like an interesting tradeoff. I noticed that the link to GitHub in the footer 404s however. I was hoping this was OSS.

The old repo looks like it’s been renamed to

https://github.com/porter-dev/porter-archive

They've probably forked the cloud product, and are leaving the old OSS version up?

Re: Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button

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Post by scottmessinger »

Very cool! As someone pointed out, your github repo says it was archived: https://github.com/porter-dev/porter-archive Naively, I would think Porter cloud would just be a managed version of your porter-dev/porter-archive. Could you talk about how it's a different product than before? Did the code base change significantly?

Re: Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button

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Post by saisrirampur »

neeleshs wrote: post #3

Cool concept. In my experience, the biggest headache/expense is data migration, and not software migration. As long as the stack is vendor neutral, it's not the long-poll, though it is gruntwork. In the SaaS world, maybe this will be useful to run managed cloud services? (That is, customer A wants a private instance in AWS and customer B wants it in Azure)

Crunchy Bridge seems to make the data migration simple too - https://docs.crunchybridge.com/migrate/heroku_dump_restore
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