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Ask HN: Where do you host your NodeJS applications?

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Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your NodeJS applications?

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Post by davidbanham »

plasma wrote: post #26

Azure offers a free tier and hosts nodejs native: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/nodejs/ (Disclaimer: Only used it for a simple app)

Their node stuff is hosted on Windows, so some compiled modules will fail. Also, have had the deployment status lie to me a _lot_. Big green ticks when my app failed to deploy. Telling me the app has been updated to a new commit while still blithely serving the old version for _three days_.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your NodeJS applications?

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Post by vjk2005 »

So far I've been using Heroku, but lately as the apps I've been trying to put together have begun to have more interconnected pieces, their service has started to become stifling. For example, getting nginx to proxy to Node requires convoluted setups like "buildpacks" and other Heroku-specific custom configs all of which can be alleviated by switching to a VPS, which is what I'm planning to do in the coming months.

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Post by ruberino »

tsenkov wrote: post #45

Just to list some of the most popular choices: Heroku Nodejitsu VPS Linode Digital Ocean Amazon AWS dotCloud OpenShift CleverCloud NodeJS Cloud (by CleverCloud)

I'll say check out Modulus (http://modulus.io) we're new but things are very well.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the co-founders.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your NodeJS applications?

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Post by trafficlight »

ddod wrote: post #30

Since so many people here are saying Heroku, Linode, or AWS, I'm wondering if someone could explain the value proposition of these over a cheap VPS for most small to medium deployments. I can get a 4GB ram VPS for $10/m, which seems orders of magnitude cheaper than the popular options. What am I missing out on?

Publishing to Heroku is as simple as 'git push'. Scaling is super easy too. Need a second instance of your webserver? 'heroku ps:scale web=2' is all you need to do.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your NodeJS applications?

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Post by WayneDB »

ratsbane wrote: post #31

A second-hand IBM X3650 in my basement. 16GB RAM, dual quad-core 3Ghz Xeons, dual power supplies, and hot-swap RAID 5 drives for less than $400 on eBay, connected through the Comcast connection I already have. The Comcast connection is the weak link. Google fiber would be so nice.

I love those cheap refurbished IBM X servers. I use the tower models as workstations.
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