On Cloud: Show off your rails or merb app with free hosting

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Post by wallop » Sat, Mar 13, 2010, 5:02 PM UTC

On Cloud: Show off your rails or merb app with free hosting
oncloud.org

Re: On Cloud: Show off your rails or merb app with free hosting

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Post by adelevie » Sat, Mar 13, 2010, 5:26 PM UTC

What's the catch?

Re: On Cloud: Show off your rails or merb app with free hosting

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Post by nkh » Sat, Mar 13, 2010, 5:39 PM UTC

You can do the same with Heroku:

sudo gem install heroku

heroku keys:add

heroku create

git push heroku master

heroku open

Re: On Cloud: Show off your rails or merb app with free hosting

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Post by stormbrew » Sat, Mar 13, 2010, 6:46 PM UTC

It's quite different from Heroku. With Heroku you're deploying your app to a foreign hosting service. With oncloud you're running it locally while making it accessible publicly. No need to push anything anywhere and you have full access to your local filesystem.

Re: On Cloud: Show off your rails or merb app with free hosting

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Post by cmelbye » Sat, Mar 13, 2010, 8:30 PM UTC

stormbrew wrote: post #4

It's quite different from Heroku. With Heroku you're deploying your app to a foreign hosting service. With oncloud you're running it locally while making it accessible publicly. No need to push anything anywhere and you have full access to your local filesystem.

Oh, that's cool. I didn't realize that about the service at first. They serve two very different and very useful niches.

Re: On Cloud: Show off your rails or merb app with free hosting

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Post by atambo » Sat, Mar 13, 2010, 9:56 PM UTC

I wonder what kind of latency hit you get from routing your requests through a proxy and more importantly how long the polling delay of the BRIDGE requests are.

Re: On Cloud: Show off your rails or merb app with free hosting

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Post by papersmith » Sun, Mar 14, 2010, 2:26 AM UTC

I'd be really cool if they support wildcard subdomains, as my current project relies on it.

Re: On Cloud: Show off your rails or merb app with free hosting

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Post by stormbrew » Mon, Mar 15, 2010, 3:24 AM UTC

papersmith wrote: post #7

I'd be really cool if they support wildcard subdomains, as my current project relies on it.

I saw someone doing it in the logs (possibly you?) and plan to add that. Probably in the next couple of days along with some other changes to the client libraries.

Re: On Cloud: Show off your rails or merb app with free hosting

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Post by papersmith » Mon, Mar 15, 2010, 10:25 AM UTC

stormbrew wrote: post #8

papersmith wrote: post #7

I'd be really cool if they support wildcard subdomains, as my current project relies on it.

I saw someone doing it in the logs (possibly you?) and plan to add that. Probably in the next couple of days along with some other changes to the client libraries.

Awesome, thanks!

Re: On Cloud: Show off your rails or merb app with free hosting

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Post by stormbrew » Sat, Mar 20, 2010, 12:36 AM UTC

papersmith wrote: post #9

stormbrew wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I saw someone doing it in the logs (possibly you?) and plan to add that. Probably in the next couple of days along with some other changes to the client libraries.

Awesome, thanks!

Hey, if you follow the new instructions you should be able to use wildcards now. It's not in the instructions yet, and the gem is really fresh so may not be up on gemcutter yet, but if you put "*papersmith.oncloud.org" where it says to put "papersmith.oncloud.org" it should work. Give it a go and let me know if it works.