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Fluxflex: GitHub integrated cloud hosting, starting at $1/month

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Re: Fluxflex: GitHub integrated cloud hosting, starting at $1/month

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Post by keikubo »

gersh wrote: post #7

How does it work? How does it handle configuration and installation?

You can write a configuration file named .flx and we will run commands according to the description in it. "Lokka on fluxflex" is a greate example for understanding how the configuration and the deployment work on fluxflex. You can read the source code at https://github.com/sowawa/lokka.

Various one-click install applications are hosted on GitHub, and you can fork, merge and push on GitHub as well as just install the application on fluxflex.

Re: Fluxflex: GitHub integrated cloud hosting, starting at $1/month

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Post by georgecalm »

keikubo wrote: post #2

I'm the founder of fluxflex, and am willing to answer any questions. Fluxflex now supports PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, Node.js and Haskell. We'll support additional languages in near future.

Kei, I've just installed the node_sample "Hello World!" project on the free plan, and noticed it was running a bit slow. Apache bench shows an avg of 1471ms/req over 100 requests (from NJ). Do you provide faster response-times on the other plans? Where are the data-centers located?

Re: Fluxflex: GitHub integrated cloud hosting, starting at $1/month

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Post by avolcano »

keikubo wrote: post #2

I'm the founder of fluxflex, and am willing to answer any questions. Fluxflex now supports PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, Node.js and Haskell. We'll support additional languages in near future.

So incredibly pedantic, but since it's better than no one telling you: typo on https://www.fluxflex.com/about, "Share you applications with one click" header

Otherwise, looks pretty damn cool. Definitely will watch this :)

edit: also, under that header, "applicatoins" in the second bullet

Re: Fluxflex: GitHub integrated cloud hosting, starting at $1/month

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Post by keikubo »

adrianwaj wrote: post #4
keikubo wrote: post #2

I'm the founder of fluxflex, and am willing to answer any questions. Fluxflex now supports PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, Node.js and Haskell. We'll support additional languages in near future.

How would this compare to something like Django Zoom? Can you give some background as to how you came up with your service and the goals of it?

Hi Andrian. We bring the power of social coding (GitHub) into a cloud hosting platform (fluxflex), and I believe the multi-language support is critical point to achive it. Taking advantage of social knowledge and cllaboratoin with other developers will reduce initial learning curves for trying new technologies, and will amplify the joyful energy instead. Our goal is to let the web application development faster, easier and more amusing.

Now you can install various popular applications with one-click. These applicatoins include Rails, Node.js, Coffee script, Django, Catalyst, Mojolicious, Lokka, Haskell and so on. Because we use GitHub on its backend, you can access to the source code easily, and fork it to start developing your original applications.

On ther other hand, if you have an existing repository on GitHub, you can automate the deployment process by specifying the reposity in a form on fluxflex.

As the result of these collaborations, I believe web applications development will become more pleasant.

Re: Fluxflex: GitHub integrated cloud hosting, starting at $1/month

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Post by teyc »

avolcano wrote: post #14
keikubo wrote: post #2

I'm the founder of fluxflex, and am willing to answer any questions. Fluxflex now supports PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, Node.js and Haskell. We'll support additional languages in near future.

So incredibly pedantic, but since it's better than no one telling you: typo on https://www.fluxflex.com/about , "Share you applications with one click" header Otherwise, looks pretty damn cool. Definitely will watch this :) edit: also, under that header, "applicatoins" in the second bullet

Also "Statictics"

Re: Fluxflex: GitHub integrated cloud hosting, starting at $1/month

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Post by keikubo »

georgecalm wrote: post #12
keikubo wrote: post #2

I'm the founder of fluxflex, and am willing to answer any questions. Fluxflex now supports PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, Node.js and Haskell. We'll support additional languages in near future.

Kei, I've just installed the node_sample "Hello World!" project on the free plan, and noticed it was running a bit slow. Apache bench shows an avg of 1471ms/req over 100 requests (from NJ). Do you provide faster response-times on the other plans? Where are the data-centers located?

We are based on Amazon Web Services (ELB + EC2 + nginx + powerdns + apache + FastCGI). I admit the current response time is very slow, but our team members make a lot of effort to improve it.

It may be the different issue, but some node hackers may disagree to use Node.js with Apache + FastCGI. However, it is our challenge to make the node technology available not only to geeks but also to light users who will take advantage of server side javascript.

We'll improve the performance and I welcome any advices!

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