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

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Post by jedberg »

keikubo wrote: post #19
georgecalm wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a…

I would humbly suggest that you drop ELB in favor a software based solution that you control like haproxy. ELB just isn't up to the job unless you are a really big customer of Amazon's.

Also, if you are using small or micro instances, you probably don't want to do that either. Don't use anything less than a large instance if you want even semi-decent performance.

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

#24

Post by shii »

keikubo wrote: post #20
ladon86 wrote: post #13

Your prices are too low.

I don't think so. But if you think so, just pay $1/month to support us! Thanks in advance!

We want to give you more money. It also gives you a little more legitimacy to an already impressive product.

As the great patio11 said[1]: Charge more. Nothing uber crazy since you have to compete with the likes of Github and others you're competing with, but $1 sounds a little ridiculous. But maybe that's part of the gimmick ;)

Great stuff, keep it up!

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=641545

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

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Post by keikubo »

jedberg wrote: post #23
keikubo wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a…

I would humbly suggest that you drop ELB in favor a software based solution that you control like haproxy. ELB just isn't up to the job unless you are a really big customer of Amazon's. Also, if you are using small or micro instances, you probably don't want to do that either. Don't use anything less than a large instance if you want even semi-decent performance.

Thanks for your advice. I think chnaging load balancers to 64-bit instances is the first thing I should do. And also I heard several times about the performance of ELB, so we will change our architecture to some alternatives.

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

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Post by blasdel »

So it's nearlyfreespeech.net but with semi-persistent workers like Heroku?

I agree that the pricing is too low for you to make money on top of AWS and also deliver decent service, it's hard to imagine that you could stick around — at the very least you should emphasize how developers don't end up tied into your platform.

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

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Post by jahmed »

This is actually really cool. Its the kind of thing I've been really wanting to get the Cloud9 guys to get working with dotcloud. A huge stumbling block for me has been working on my CR-48. Dotcloud, heroku need you to install their CLI witch will obviously give you much more power and flexibility but cant be done if you don't have terminal access.

Now some will say why would you even try to do any kind of dev work without proper tools but I think this really lowers the bar and gives people another frictionless way to get their hands dirty.

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