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Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by Veratyr » Mon, Aug 03, 2015, 12:01 AM UTC

joshmn wrote: post #107

Veratyr wrote: post #13

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Is there likely to be support for other clouds in the future? Amazon is great and you're far cheaper than Heroku itself but I'd love to throw this on DigitalOcean or Vultr.

Vultr's website looks... interesting. And their control panel is also... interesting. BUT. I've been very impressed by the performance of my nodes. Tops DigitalOcean easily. I don't have any hard numbers (I can provide some if people would like) but with the performance and number of locations they provide it's hard to beat. $50 credits for two months: http://vultr.com/freetrial Vultr also offers a "dedicated cloud"…

I'm also a big fan of Vultr, hence why I mention them :)

When I've run tests, they beat DO on every metric on unixbench (for equivalently priced/RAM filled instances [0][1]) and they let you use whichever ISOs/images you want (including fun stuff like BSD), unlike DO.

Their SATA storage nodes are really handy too.

You didn't post numbers but here are mine:

[0] Vultr benchmark: https://gist.github.com/bobobo1618/0972fc51f49d90fb37af

[1] DigitalOcean benchmark: https://gist.github.com/bobobo1618/81aa3f413b99aaab1f0d

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by alphadeluxe » Mon, Aug 03, 2015, 12:13 AM UTC

Is it even legal to use the phrase "The simplicity of Heroku. The power of AWS." if you're all ex-Heroku engineers? Seems sketchy as hell.

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by kevinSuttle » Mon, Aug 03, 2015, 4:01 PM UTC

mwmanning wrote: post #59

kevinSuttle wrote: post #55

"The simplicity of Heroku. The power of AWS." The privacy of "?". Was waiting for this part since it was included in the title.

Good point. Any suggestions?

The HIPAA-compliance was a nice mention. "zero-knowledge" privacy resonates with me as well when it comes to privacy, though I realize that's out of your control with AWS.

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by muyfine » Tue, Aug 04, 2015, 12:03 AM UTC

Great product - exactly what I'm looking for in infrastructure. Was able to get a bunch of esoteric services up and running on AWS without having to pull out my hair.

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by muyfine » Tue, Aug 04, 2015, 12:05 AM UTC

mwmanning wrote: post #50

boundlessdreamz wrote: post #48

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Google Cloud

Thanks for the input. Google's offerings are really picking up steam. We've been in touch with Google and are excited about expanding onto their infrastructure in the future.

Would be great to see this extended eventually to Google Container Engine!

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by kevinSuttle » Thu, Aug 06, 2015, 2:37 AM UTC

mwmanning wrote: post #64

kevinSuttle wrote: post #53

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What about IBM Bluemix?

That one hasn't been on our radar, but we'll definitely check it out.

It's based on CloudFoundry, and supports OpenStack and Docker, so lots of choices.

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by empurium » Wed, Aug 12, 2015, 5:05 PM UTC

boundlessdreamz wrote: post #48

ddollar wrote: post #29

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We are considering other vendors but currently focused on AWS. What vendors would you like to see?

Google Cloud

+1 for Google Cloud!

This project looks AMAZING. I love what you guys are doing at Convox. The title of this post immediately caught my attention, because I've already spent what I consider far too much time figuring out how to deploy our application and would face the same problem with AWS.

Convox looks to help developers focus on their platform as opposed to how exactly it should be deployed when there are many options, even though most platforms can run and scale with a very similar setup. Great work guys. Looking forward to Google Cloud support!

Re: Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes

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Post by empurium » Wed, Aug 12, 2015, 5:13 PM UTC

boundlessdreamz wrote: post #48

ddollar wrote: post #29

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We are considering other vendors but currently focused on AWS. What vendors would you like to see?

Google Cloud

Anybody know if something exists similar to Convox that currently works with Google Cloud? I haven't been able to find anything myself.