DigitalOcean App Platform

Post by jacques_chester » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 7:25 PM UTC

nijave wrote: post #286

user5994461 wrote: post #75

I am so glad to see this. I was looking to deploy an app and the choice is either Heroku or manage your own server which I don't want to do. Heroku gives instant deployment for the most common types of apps (python/java/ruby). It's PaaS done right, it's fantastic. You should really have a look if you're not aware of it, it's only $7 for a starter app. Problem is, scaling up is about $50 per gigabyte of memory which m…

Not exactly cheap but run.pivotal.io (cloud foundry) and openshift online are both $25 GB/min which is a little more accessible. I'm not sure about Pivotal's online platform but PCF has some pretty simple autoscaling plugins that could spin down instances during low usage A lot of Fortune 500 companies have Cloud Foundry setups and it's built on some of the same tech as Heroku so it's fairly accessible

Post by anderspitman » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 9:07 PM UTC

cdrx wrote: post #294

capableweb wrote: post #292

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Such a weird approach that seems repeated by many. Instead of building something general that works for most cases and is easier to implement, they focus on specialized cases of specific SCM platforms. If they started with support Git Remotes and then supporting specific platforms, they would have covered all use cases from the get-go, albeit with slightly poorer UX. But instead they chose to only support specific pl…

Git remotes is certainly not "easier to implement". You need to have ssh infrastructure setup to receive the repository, deal with key management, provide the user some way to input ssh keys, etc. Contrast that with GitHub web hooks + API and I can see why they didn't bother. I bet GitHub covers the vast majority of their target users.

Post by mikestaub » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 5:28 AM UTC

user5994461 wrote: post #75

I am so glad to see this. I was looking to deploy an app and the choice is either Heroku or manage your own server which I don't want to do. Heroku gives instant deployment for the most common types of apps (python/java/ruby). It's PaaS done right, it's fantastic. You should really have a look if you're not aware of it, it's only $7 for a starter app. Problem is, scaling up is about $50 per gigabyte of memory which m…

Post by eecc » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 5:59 AM UTC

cdrx wrote: post #294

capableweb wrote: post #292

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Such a weird approach that seems repeated by many. Instead of building something general that works for most cases and is easier to implement, they focus on specialized cases of specific SCM platforms. If they started with support Git Remotes and then supporting specific platforms, they would have covered all use cases from the get-go, albeit with slightly poorer UX. But instead they chose to only support specific pl…

Git remotes is certainly not "easier to implement". You need to have ssh infrastructure setup to receive the repository, deal with key management, provide the user some way to input ssh keys, etc. Contrast that with GitHub web hooks + API and I can see why they didn't bother. I bet GitHub covers the vast majority of their target users.

Post by names_are_hard » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 11:11 AM UTC

NOGDP wrote: post #190

user5994461 wrote: post #75

I am so glad to see this. I was looking to deploy an app and the choice is either Heroku or manage your own server which I don't want to do. Heroku gives instant deployment for the most common types of apps (python/java/ruby). It's PaaS done right, it's fantastic. You should really have a look if you're not aware of it, it's only $7 for a starter app. Problem is, scaling up is about $50 per gigabyte of memory which m…

The digital ocean volume pricing of $1/10GB per month seems very steep... I can literally buy fresh SSDs every month for that money. The container pricing is reasonable though.