OpenShift by Red Hat

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Post by kragniz » Tue, May 15, 2012, 10:27 AM UTC

OpenShift by Red Hat
openshift.redhat.com

Re: OpenShift by Red Hat

#2

Post by japhyr » Tue, May 15, 2012, 11:18 AM UTC

Has anyone chosen openshift over heroku for django? I didn't see any pricing info; is openshift still in beta?

Re: OpenShift by Red Hat

#3

Post by amalag » Tue, May 15, 2012, 11:23 AM UTC

I tried openshift a few months ago for Rails. A real pain in the butt. They dont have simple deploy like Heroku. Even heroku can be time consuming in the beginning to get right, openshift was even more complicated. It may work better for Java I don't know, looks like they are right on the bleeding edge with support for Ruby 1.8.7.

Re: OpenShift by Red Hat

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Post by bpp198 » Tue, May 15, 2012, 11:25 AM UTC

japhyr wrote: post #2

Has anyone chosen openshift over heroku for django? I didn't see any pricing info; is openshift still in beta?

OpenShift is free.

Re: OpenShift by Red Hat

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Post by ralphsaunders » Tue, May 15, 2012, 11:30 AM UTC

bpp198 wrote: post #4

japhyr wrote: post #2

Has anyone chosen openshift over heroku for django? I didn't see any pricing info; is openshift still in beta?

OpenShift is free.

But what's the catch?

Re: OpenShift by Red Hat

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Post by halfasleep » Tue, May 15, 2012, 11:37 AM UTC

ralphsaunders wrote: post #5

bpp198 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OpenShift is free.

But what's the catch?

It's Free Software, you can run it yourself or switch providers at will. The catch may be in the lack of features compared to a proprietary option (like Heroku)

Re: OpenShift by Red Hat

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Post by dabeeeenster » Tue, May 15, 2012, 11:37 AM UTC

No mention of pricing anywhere on their site. What?

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Post by ique » Tue, May 15, 2012, 11:37 AM UTC

How can this be free? If I host a massive application here, will they shut it down or rate limit or how can this work?

Re: OpenShift by Red Hat

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Post by pawmar » Tue, May 15, 2012, 11:39 AM UTC

ralphsaunders wrote: post #5

bpp198 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OpenShift is free.

But what's the catch?

From their faq page: To get more information on the pricing and timing of a paid version of OpenShift please send an email to openshift@redhat.com

Re: OpenShift by Red Hat

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Post by ttt_ » Tue, May 15, 2012, 11:40 AM UTC

ralphsaunders wrote: post #5

bpp198 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OpenShift is free.

But what's the catch?

Yeah, is it free as in beer? For life? No matter how much it has to scale to?

If it is, I would like to understand the reasoning behind that? Is it to gain traction and visibility for Red Hate as a PaaS? And then...