great idea!
Show HN: Node.js Hosting Platform with Integrated MongoDB
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Re: Show HN: Node.js Hosting Platform with Integrated MongoDB
#22This looks promising. I wanted to go with Heroku for a node project a while back and couldn't because their feature-set didn't meet my needs (not to mention that your pricing is more affordable). A couple questions: 1. can your load balancer handle raw TCP load balancing, or is it always HTTP aware? 2. does it work with wildcard subdomains?
Just curious, but why do people on HN seem to prefer Heroku for Node projects? Is there a feature that I'm unaware of?
I'm a Nodejitsu user (and yes, its not free, so I get that) but Heroku doesn't even support Websockets at my last check.
Re: Show HN: Node.js Hosting Platform with Integrated MongoDB
#23This looks promising. I wanted to go with Heroku for a node project a while back and couldn't because their feature-set didn't meet my needs (not to mention that your pricing is more affordable). A couple questions: 1. can your load balancer handle raw TCP load balancing, or is it always HTTP aware? 2. does it work with wildcard subdomains?
Just curious, but why do people on HN seem to prefer Heroku for Node projects? Is there a feature that I'm unaware of? I'm a Nodejitsu user (and yes, its not free, so I get that) but Heroku doesn't even support Websockets at my last check.
People use what they're used to so most of the time that falls back to Heroku. I get that, I really do. Just want to make sure people know it's not the only option.
Re: Show HN: Node.js Hosting Platform with Integrated MongoDB
#24This looks promising. I wanted to go with Heroku for a node project a while back and couldn't because their feature-set didn't meet my needs (not to mention that your pricing is more affordable). A couple questions: 1. can your load balancer handle raw TCP load balancing, or is it always HTTP aware? 2. does it work with wildcard subdomains?
Just curious, but why do people on HN seem to prefer Heroku for Node projects? Is there a feature that I'm unaware of? I'm a Nodejitsu user (and yes, its not free, so I get that) but Heroku doesn't even support Websockets at my last check.
We use heroku at carddrop simply because it fits our requirements and we are comfortable with it. So far we haven't had any issues other than dynos idling (when we were on free account). We do serve quite decent traffic.
Re: Show HN: Node.js Hosting Platform with Integrated MongoDB
#25This looks promising. I wanted to go with Heroku for a node project a while back and couldn't because their feature-set didn't meet my needs (not to mention that your pricing is more affordable). A couple questions: 1. can your load balancer handle raw TCP load balancing, or is it always HTTP aware? 2. does it work with wildcard subdomains?
Just curious, but why do people on HN seem to prefer Heroku for Node projects? Is there a feature that I'm unaware of? I'm a Nodejitsu user (and yes, its not free, so I get that) but Heroku doesn't even support Websockets at my last check.
It was in fall of last year that I was looking at options and I don't think Nodejitsu was available on paid plans to the public at that time. In any case I don't think they supported the raw TCP routing I needed at the time.
Re: Show HN: Node.js Hosting Platform with Integrated MongoDB
#26Hey guys, congrats on launching. (this is the launch right?) As others said, your design/appearance is awesome and the pricing calculator is superb. Some feedback: * Seems like you're on AWS. I would like that to be disclosed: when picking hosting these things matter, wouldn't you agree? * Secondly, you don't seem to be protecting yourself from abuse: by charging for docs you're on the hook of someone storing a ton o…
Yes we're mostly on AWS. We actually use AWS for most of the infrastructure and then Azure for hold stats we push. This will be added to FAQ, ASAP. I agree that is does matter. GridFS stores chucks as different documents so this still should be fine for our pricing scheme. Each chunk is saved in 256K document. Thanks for the comment.
Be careful :) The node driver lets the developer set the chunkSize which can be up to max BSON document size (16MB at the moment). So you might want to keep that in mind.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes we're mostly on AWS. We actually use AWS for most of the infrastructure and then Azure for hold stats we push. This will be added to FAQ, ASAP. I agree that is does matter. GridFS stores chucks as different documents so this still should be fine for our pricing scheme. Each chunk is saved in 256K document. Thanks for the comment.
Be careful :) The node driver lets the developer set the chunkSize which can be up to max BSON document size (16MB at the moment). So you might want to keep that in mind.
Yeah great point.
Re: Show HN: Node.js Hosting Platform with Integrated MongoDB
#28looks great. we're super happy with their service
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#29What's with the pricing for the DB being based on the # of documents you have stored. Really feels like you're trying to nickel and dime your customers.