NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform • Hacker News Board

Yea, I got tired of waiting for Heroku and Joyent invitations so I created NodeFu and open sourced it so that others could have fun too! The repo is at http://github.com/chrismatthieu/nodefu

Re: NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform

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Post by bobds » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 5:02 PM UTC

alexyoung wrote: post #2

Heroku does have experimental Node support if anyone is interested: http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/9/20/an_update_on_herok... And Joyent's Node service is pretty good too: https://no.de/

There's also http://webbynode.com/

They have ready-made stacks with Node.js, Rails and Django.

Re: NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform

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Post by futuremint » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 5:16 PM UTC

If its free, who is footing the EC2 bill?

Which gives me the idea: it'd be cool to have a service like this and have it use a user-provided AWS account.

So you could use a service like this to automatically manage the EC2 instances, and then if you need to take control to expand your instances' functionality you just stop using the service.

Just a thought...

Re: NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform

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Post by aonic » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 5:17 PM UTC

Looks great! Thanks for open sourcing it so others can learn from what's involved in creating these type of services

Re: NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform

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Post by inji » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 5:23 PM UTC

Why the name?

Re: NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform

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Post by futuremint » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 5:23 PM UTC

Also, you really might want to add some read permissions to your CouchDB on CouchOne. Currently all nodefu global config data is world readable.

Re: NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform

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Post by ChrisMatthieu » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 5:28 PM UTC

inji wrote: post #7

Why the name?

Because the domain and twitter handles were available. Other name choices like Nodester and Nodeku were not available on Twitter.

Re: NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform

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Post by davej » Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 5:28 PM UTC

ChrisMatthieu wrote: post #3

Yea, I got tired of waiting for Heroku and Joyent invitations so I created NodeFu and open sourced it so that others could have fun too! The repo is at http://github.com/chrismatthieu/nodefu

Fantastic! Are there any real differences between the current node.js cloud platforms (nodefu, no.de, nodeJsCloud, Heroku's service etc...) from an architectural point of view?