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OpenShift by Red Hat
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#112Yeah I'm excited about it and it's getting me to finally take the step from traditional web app development (vps, php, etc.) to more easily scalable app development - and it's all open source, no vendor lock-in, and hopefully affordable pricing in the future. Look forward to seeing more tutorials & code samples online and on their site. For example has anyone tried out meteor (w/node.js & mongodb) with it yet. Also,…
Did you ask for integration with cloud9? Funny you should mention that:
https://openshift.redhat.com/community/blogs/look-ma-no-hand...
Re: OpenShift by Red Hat
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure where the second statement came from but if you can let me know the source, I can correct it. I can represent OpenShift fairly well. We will always have a free level of service and we are trying very hard to keep what is free today, free forever. We have tweaked a couple of things based on user feedback but the goal is to have a meaningful free offering. At the same time, we are getting constant feedback tha…
Thank you for the clarifacation. The service sounds interesting. How are you keeping the free plan going now though? Who's paying for it? RedHat doesn't exactly strike me as the kind of company that's wallowing in spare cash.
I don't know how much was profit, but they did hit $1 bn in revenue recently and an in share price.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/03/red-hat-hits-a-billi...
Re: OpenShift by Red Hat
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure where the second statement came from but if you can let me know the source, I can correct it. I can represent OpenShift fairly well. We will always have a free level of service and we are trying very hard to keep what is free today, free forever. We have tweaked a couple of things based on user feedback but the goal is to have a meaningful free offering. At the same time, we are getting constant feedback tha…
Thank you for the clarifacation. The service sounds interesting. How are you keeping the free plan going now though? Who's paying for it? RedHat doesn't exactly strike me as the kind of company that's wallowing in spare cash.
Red Hat is funding the free plan right now. One of the reasons we started the service this way was so that we would really understand cost control in the public cloud from the point of view of customers. That lead us down the multi-tenancy path (lots of workloads on a single VM). SELinux and Linux Control Groups (as well as a lot of other tech) have been key for us in keeping costs under control.
Check out the OpenShift Origin work (https://github.com/openshift/crankcase) if you are interested in the code that we use to run all of this.
Re: OpenShift by Red Hat
#115just a quick compliment to RH; loving how the employees are giving constructive feedback on the comments here :)
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#116I don't like this "Free" business. It doesn't make sense and the complete lack of pricing info really puts me off. So I play around with this, like it and choose to stick with it. They then introduce uncompetitive pricing.. I just wasted my time. They do not need to give exact pricing - they might not know at the moment - but they should at least give an overview of what they plan to do. > We will keep this free plan…
> So I play around with this, like it and choose to stick with it. They then introduce uncompetitive pricing.. I just wasted my time. No, this is not Google AppEngine. The platform is opensourced. You can host this "cloud" on your own servers or rely on some 3rd party provider.
I'm still paying for the mistake of deploying on the App Engine. BTW, I spoke with open shift folks and they are going to provide a way to migrate your app to openshift
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#117If you don't like the idea of relying on RedHat to play with this tech, remember that it is Open Source. Download it, use it, heck make a business that builds on it. https://github.com/openshift/crankcase https://github.com/openshift/os-client-tools https://openshift.redhat.com/community/wiki/build-your-own (I will say though: they make it extremely easy to get started and I really like using OpenShift so far. I've n…
FWIW, heroku does. The first heroku slice for a project is free, with the caveat that it'll be spun down during periods of inactivity. I imagine that most hobby users of heroku (say for a weekend hackathon) aren't paying anything.
I know of people who deployed prototypes and even production work for clients to Heroku (I did once too ;-)). Quite a few people run Jekyll blogs on there long term for free as well. It's pretty amazing what you can get out of a single dyno for something that's not high traffic (i.e. most apps).
Re: OpenShift by Red Hat
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here is the clause from the OpenShift Preview Services ToS (not the site terms): https://openshift.redhat.com/app/legal/services_agreement 3.3. Your License to Red Hat. You hereby grant to Red Hat a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty free license to use Your trademarks, trade names and logos in connection with publicizing the Preview Services and communicating with analysts, customers or the press about the Pre…
Thanks for posting the entire clause. Let me just comment as a Red Hat/OpenShift employee with some insight into the business intent behind the legal language. As you can see from the complete clause that includes "...for the purpose of providing the Preview Services", the license to your content that you grant to Red Hat is really to allow Red Hat to provide the Service. Also the last sentence i.e. "Except as set fo…
I am really confusing by following term and conditions
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