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Re: Show HN: Node.js Hosting Platform with Integrated MongoDB

#11
Looks great!

I'd love to see more technical details about the specs of servos, specs of mongodb instances, info about replica sets and sharding, etc.

Pretty exciting, as you are to my knowledge only the second sevice that provides seamlessly scaling mongodb databases (after dotcloud). (By seamlessly scaling I mean, I don't have to upgrade my plan and migrate data)

Re: Show HN: Node.js Hosting Platform with Integrated MongoDB

#16
This looks promising. I wanted to go with Heroku for a node project a while back and couldn't because their feature-set didn't meet my needs (not to mention that your pricing is more affordable). A couple questions:

1. can your load balancer handle raw TCP load balancing, or is it always HTTP aware?

2. does it work with wildcard subdomains?

Re: Show HN: Node.js Hosting Platform with Integrated MongoDB

#17

Is there a free try-it-out thing like node.jit.su has?

We went with a free credit approach. Everyone gets enough credits for over a month of free service. The credits also let you evaluate the service however you want, you can spend them on anything.

Re: Show HN: Node.js Hosting Platform with Integrated MongoDB

#18
post #16

This looks promising. I wanted to go with Heroku for a node project a while back and couldn't because their feature-set didn't meet my needs (not to mention that your pricing is more affordable). A couple questions: 1. can your load balancer handle raw TCP load balancing, or is it always HTTP aware? 2. does it work with wildcard subdomains?

1. We do not currently do raw TCP load balancing. It's HTTP and WebSocket load balancing. It's not an impossibility to do. Just haven't had a ton of people ask for it yet.

2. Yes you can use wildcard subdomains. You can then use different subdomains or wildcard on any project(s).

Re: Show HN: Node.js Hosting Platform with Integrated MongoDB

#20

Hey guys, congrats on launching. (this is the launch right?) As others said, your design/appearance is awesome and the pricing calculator is superb. Some feedback: * Seems like you're on AWS. I would like that to be disclosed: when picking hosting these things matter, wouldn't you agree? * Secondly, you don't seem to be protecting yourself from abuse: by charging for docs you're on the hook of someone storing a ton o…

Yes we're mostly on AWS. We actually use AWS for most of the infrastructure and then Azure for hold stats we push. This will be added to FAQ, ASAP. I agree that is does matter.

GridFS stores chucks as different documents so this still should be fine for our pricing scheme. Each chunk is saved in 256K document.

Thanks for the comment.

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