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Re: Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

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charlesju wrote: post #7

What's the catch?

There is really no catch other that there is no professional support (see.. for a slightly longer explanation http://1.ai/specs) and that we take no responsibility for your data (e.g. you should always keep a backup. this doesn't mean that we do not care about the service just we do not want to be liable if something goes wrong).

Re: Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

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Post by rdevnull »

mdasen wrote: post #9

The initial question that comes to mind is: how will this be sustainable? It's all well and good to offer this service, but will it be a drain on your finances 6 months down the road? Will it become a drain if more than 250 people sign up for it? I understand that one can get a server with 128GB of SSD storage, quad core, and 16GB of RAM for around $100/mo if one looks enough, but that would only serve 256 people at…

Hello Mdasen ! thanks for your comment and the very good questions. To start with a quick answer: "Would you be able to offer the service if you had to spend $1,000/mo?" Yes :) At the moment we have 3 servers and we are far from full capacity. Of course nothing can scale to the infinite but, from what I could observe, there are always people coming and going. We do have bigger hard disks than 128 gb so the quota in a single server is higher than 250 or it should be.

Why should you use 1.ai dotgeek over heroku or appfog ? If you do have a commercial application you should run in a paid service because, in the end, hosting your commercial or critical app will depend on support. This said our space is for developers/geeks/learners that want to try something not necessarily commercial.

Another reason I would see vs. Heroku free (I think is only fair to compare with the free option) is that here you do have a simple SFTP access and you run things like in the "old days"- your way. We also give MySQL which is not part of Heroku free. I also feel that the performance of an app in our server would be better vs. others free tiers.

I think that both Heroko and AppFog are great concepts as they take away the servers duty from your hands.

We do not compete with any paid service hence it is only entirely free and somehow "as is". I agree that this might be useless to many yet I would think that for a young developer - student or really anyone that wants to try something without any financial commitment it is a pretty good offer.

Thanks for the kudos (I don't think you have been harsh at all) I think dropping your app via SFTP (being Ruby, PHP or even a perl app with Dancer) is a very straightforward process and could be useful. Judging from the great numbers of signups after this post I think that at least some are curious which is always great ! Thanks again David

Re: Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

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Post by rdevnull »

rdevnull wrote: post #8
dexen wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is there no paid subscription option? Do you have any plans of such? I'd like to upgrade to a paid, supported service if my website gets any traction.

Hi dexen, the reason is that there are already many excellent (or so we hear) options for paid hosting /apps deployment and we think that there isn't a need for yet another another good service (unless you can really make a difference. We had some ideas in this direction like with having all the apps cloned in 3 live servers in different locations including the mysql database but this was just an idea) but we do give…

and actually mdasen did summarize many of the good paid alternatives which are backed by solid money and infrastructure.... but to be fairly honest the another big reason is that we are all busy with our full time careers and do not need the money / start a new commercial activity well the "fun" becomes work !

Re: Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

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pn wrote: post #13

Why there's no python?

mostly for our limited knowledge of python but we could certainly add it in the future if there is some interest ! While there is no official support we want to be able to fix things if they do not work. This said I had a look last night and we could probably add it soon as it seems simple enough

Re: Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

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Post by bratsche »

rdevnull wrote: post #12
charlesju wrote: post #7

What's the catch?

There is really no catch other that there is no professional support (see.. for a slightly longer explanation http://1.ai/specs ) and that we take no responsibility for your data (e.g. you should always keep a backup. this doesn't mean that we do not care about the service just we do not want to be liable if something goes wrong).

What's paying to keep the service running?

Re: Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

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Post by adlpz »

rdevnull wrote: post #17
pn wrote: post #13

Why there's no python?

mostly for our limited knowledge of python but we could certainly add it in the future if there is some interest ! While there is no official support we want to be able to fix things if they do not work. This said I had a look last night and we could probably add it soon as it seems simple enough

Please, do! The python community in web development is definitely a big one and we don't want to miss on the fun :).
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