Yet another cloud offering with "NSA inside". I'm so desperate for an alternative that I would rather put my data in North Korea if they had a cloud offer.
You may want to check out the following offerings: - https://appsdeck.eu/ - http://www.clever-cloud.com/
I'm French and I didn't know about these ! That means I'm probably reading too much American / English news ... or not enough ;-)
Also check out JazzHub, IBMs entry in the online software tools space. It provides source code management (unfortunately based on Rational Team Concert and not something like Git or Mercurial), agile tools and a decent web based code editor based on Eclipse Orion. It integrates nicely with BlueMix, you can one click deploy from within JazzHub. I had early access to this so I could write an article for their developer…
Actually there's hosted Git as well. Create project, choose "Create a Git repository hosted at JazzHub". Orion has full Git support as well as the added Jazz SCM support for JazzHub.
Looks like you can build anything that you could build with java/ruby/node code. And they would launch as many servers as you needed given the amount of traffic that it got. And you'd put the data into a nearby managed database like... Mongo (ew) or Postgres. Not listed: what operating system is running down there (going to guess Linux, since I don't know what building various binary ruby / node modules would actuall…
Funny, I remember a few months ago, an IBM employee at our Ottawa JS meetup explained how he ported Node to PowerPC.