AppFog Wants To Do For Developer Platforms What Google Did For EMail

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Post by turoczy » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 5:53 AM UTC

AppFog Wants To Do For Developer Platforms What Google Did For EMail
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Post by adverscott » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 6:12 AM UTC

This is going to change the PaaS game!

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Post by cardmagic » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 6:21 AM UTC

https://console.appfog.com/pricing

2GB RAM FREE | 4GB RAM $100/month | 16GB RAM $380/month | 32GB RAM $720/month | More if you contact AppFog

Scaling your app is free, choosing multiple infrastructures is free, custom domains are free, fastest available servers in the infrastructures

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Post by shpoonj » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 6:27 AM UTC

AppFog wants to make developer platforms load slowly and be so disorganized and haphazard that you can't tell what's going on... great.

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Post by patrickaljord » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 6:38 AM UTC

cardmagic wrote: post #3

https://console.appfog.com/pricing 2GB RAM FREE | 4GB RAM $100/month | 16GB RAM $380/month | 32GB RAM $720/month | More if you contact AppFog Scaling your app is free, choosing multiple infrastructures is free, custom domains are free, fastest available servers in the infrastructures

on the other hand, ovh offers dedicated servers for:

16GB RAM £70/month

24GB RAM £100/month

24GB RAM £180/month

64GB RAM £260/month

http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/

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Post by codenerdz » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 7:10 AM UTC

This is nice, but i hope FREE lasts....

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Post by ilaksh » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 7:21 AM UTC

Does this give me one VPS that I can resize up to 2GB without paying for?

Can I launch multiple VPSs that are up to 2GB?

If you are trying to say its not a VPS, I don't believe you. I bet it is at least built on some kind of virtualization. What is it exactly?

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Post by jhack » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 7:22 AM UTC

codenerdz wrote: post #6

This is nice, but i hope FREE lasts....

They're going to be explaining the business model tomorrow on their blog: https://twitter.com/appfog/status/228380656407826432

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Post by cardmagic » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 7:28 AM UTC

ilaksh wrote: post #7

Does this give me one VPS that I can resize up to 2GB without paying for? Can I launch multiple VPSs that are up to 2GB? If you are trying to say its not a VPS, I don't believe you. I bet it is at least built on some kind of virtualization. What is it exactly?

AppFog is a PaaS built on various IaaS virtualization platforms (AWS, Rackspace, Azure, etc.), not a VPS.

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Post by tangerine » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 7:29 AM UTC

Just curious - How is this different than buying a server from Amazon, and sticking Ruby (or whatever it is that I need) on it and using it? Does the incremental value provided by Appfog lies in the fact it abstracts this get-meself-a-server-from-amazon part? Genuinely curious and hence asking.