Show HN: Build your own Heroku on your own servers
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#2Heroku does more than rails apps. This seems to only do rails?
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#3No mention of what size instances are being created on aws seems a bit scary. Otherwise cool. I'd use it if it were self hosted and available for node.
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#4Heroku does more than rails apps. This seems to only do rails?
You are absolutely right. We are trying to start by helping fellow Rails developers first, more frameworks are coming soon.
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#5Just giving the github repo and the place we want to host, everything is taken care of! Pretty cool!
Before i deployed my app to amazon ec2, i had pretty bad time with rubber gem, then with chef-solo and then capistrano, i always thought of something like this. So, it should definitely many who want to go with IAAS services but don't want the hassle of deployment.
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#6Heroku does more than rails apps. This seems to only do rails?
You are absolutely right. We are trying to start by helping fellow Rails developers first, more frameworks are coming soon.
What's your plans for self-hosted realtime support (like Socket.io, which seems to be node-only)?
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#7I think this targets a real painful need, managing an EC2 app on your own is not lacking frustrations, simple things like creating a rolling backup of instances needs complex shell scripts and cron jobs or 3rd party apps like http://www.skeddly.com, you need to be fluent in linux administration if you want to do simple things like increase your boot storage space (actually need to remove it, create a new volume from it, reattach it). Most developers will figure it out, but I would rather focus on development rather than infrastructure if I don't have to.
EC2 has an auto pilot option, but if I remember correctly it's more targeted for multiple instances, no auto scaling up or down only scaling out.
Developers need to focus on developing, it's always nice to have a developer who can also do the ops part, but I think no one will miss doing the plumbing work if they don't have to.
p.s. I would add a tweet button, this is tweet worthy and you should make it easier on people to both follow and spread the word
Few minor glitches:
- SSL mixed content warning on /how and /about
- / is different than /home (pricing link)
- logo redirects to /home instead of /
Re: Show HN: Build your own Heroku on your own servers
#8No mention of what size instances are being created on aws seems a bit scary. Otherwise cool. I'd use it if it were self hosted and available for node.
Actually you get to choose what sizes you want (whichever cloud provider you choose). See here: http://blog.cloud66.com/post/39922150128/custom-server-sizes...
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are absolutely right. We are trying to start by helping fellow Rails developers first, more frameworks are coming soon.
What's your plans for self-hosted realtime support (like Socket.io, which seems to be node-only)?
Thanks for your question.
1. node.js support is coming soon! 2. We're going to have at least one self-hosted real-time push solution in our app store (think Socket.io or Faye). 3. The whole reason we started Cloud 66 is to give developers more control over what traditional PaaS doesn't let you do. It's your server, you have full root shell access to it. If we don't do it (yet), you can always do it yourself!
Re: Show HN: Build your own Heroku on your own servers
#10Heroku does more than rails apps. This seems to only do rails?
You are absolutely right. We are trying to start by helping fellow Rails developers first, more frameworks are coming soon.
How are you planning to handle network security configurations on AWS? I.e. If I wanted to run an iptables config on my servers?