This is an awesome idea. I've been looking for something with the flexibility of managed infrastructure but the ease of use of Heroku for a while. I'll definitely be trying it out.
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#12Awesome idea solving a real pain. Timely too given recent headaches with AWS sneezes.. Every time AWS has an issue, our site on Heroku is affected. Can you speak to SLA, downtime/uptime of service?
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#13Can you give a technical explanation of how this actually works? Heroku works by compiling your git repository with a buildpack into a "slug" and then booting that slug on a cookie-cutter LXC image running on an EC2 VM, according to process types you defined in your Procfile and the scaling you set through heroku's API, and then routing web traffic to your web processes. etc etc.
Can you explain with some technical depth how you are actually deploying/configuring the app, what languages/libraries are supported, where/how DBs & external services are run/connected to, how web traffic gets routed/proxied to the apps, etc?
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#14This is awesome! I see there's Linode support built in - any plans to do the same with Digital Ocean?
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#15This is awesome! I see there's Linode support built in - any plans to do the same with Digital Ocean?
Yep! Digital Ocean just released the bit of their API we needed - so yes they'll be supported soon!
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#16Any love for python/django?
Or maybe will wok on top of the heroku buildpacks?
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#17I've actually been using this since open beta. This is for those like me, who can do devops when pressed to, but really hate it otherwise. Which is most web devs I know.
The neatest thing is being able to transfer your stuff to another provider within minutes. I haven't tried the manual thingy yet, seemed like too much fiddling, really.
The cost in my case isn't significant, less than an hours worth monthly. I'd have wished for more frameworks as RoR isn't really my weapon of choice.
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#18Awesome idea solving a real pain. Timely too given recent headaches with AWS sneezes.. Every time AWS has an issue, our site on Heroku is affected. Can you speak to SLA, downtime/uptime of service?
We built Cloud 66 to combine the convenience of PaaS with control of having your own servers. Even if we are down, your servers will still be up on your own preferred cloud vendor serving your users! That's a win for everyone!
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#19No 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...
Yeah I just setup two micro instances to play around with it. I'm thinking I'll setup something on DigitalOcean assuming I'm happy with what I'm seeing.
Re: Show HN: Build your own Heroku on your own servers
#20Can you give a technical explanation of how this actually works? Heroku works by compiling your git repository with a buildpack into a "slug" and then booting that slug on a cookie-cutter LXC image running on an EC2 VM, according to process types you defined in your Procfile and the scaling you set through heroku's API, and then routing web traffic to your web processes. etc etc. Can you explain with some technical d…
Thanks for the question - there is a little more detail here:
https://www.cloud66.com/help/cloud66_stack
Happy to answer specific questions