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Pagoda goes in private beta - Heroku for PHP

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Re: Pagoda goes in private beta - Heroku for PHP

#11

Post by tonius36 »

sparkygoblue wrote: post #10

Pulling only from github seems very restrictive to me. So, basically if I want to put a private project on PagodaBox, I have to also purchase a github account.

What's wrong with a github account? Give them some love. Their private option is cheap. Over all once you start using github it's hard to go any other route anyway.

Re: Pagoda goes in private beta - Heroku for PHP

#12

Post by andypants »

tonius36 wrote: post #11
sparkygoblue wrote: post #10

Pulling only from github seems very restrictive to me. So, basically if I want to put a private project on PagodaBox, I have to also purchase a github account.

What's wrong with a github account? Give them some love. Their private option is cheap. Over all once you start using github it's hard to go any other route anyway.

Other people may use their own git server or a different git host.

Anyways, since git is decentralized, why go through github? What about pulling/pushing between the user (or any arbitrary git client) and pagoda box directly?

Edit: I watched the screencast, your deployment process is a bit different than I expected so I guess using github is probably a good idea.

Re: Pagoda goes in private beta - Heroku for PHP

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Post by sparkygoblue »

tonius36 wrote: post #11
sparkygoblue wrote: post #10

Pulling only from github seems very restrictive to me. So, basically if I want to put a private project on PagodaBox, I have to also purchase a github account.

What's wrong with a github account? Give them some love. Their private option is cheap. Over all once you start using github it's hard to go any other route anyway.

Nothing wrong with github, I spend WAY too much time there :-), but I prefer deploying my personal project from my home web server. It's just adding another layer where something could go wrong to my deployment process.

Re: Pagoda goes in private beta - Heroku for PHP

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Post by tonius36 »

andypants wrote: post #12
tonius36 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with a github account? Give them some love. Their private option is cheap. Over all once you start using github it's hard to go any other route anyway.

Other people may use their own git server or a different git host. Anyways, since git is decentralized, why go through github? What about pulling/pushing between the user (or any arbitrary git client) and pagoda box directly? Edit: I watched the screencast, your deployment process is a bit different than I expected so I guess using github is probably a good idea.

Yeah good points. Anyway looks like here's a more straight forward reason: http://guides.pagodabox.com/getting-started/git-github "...the feature-set available in the Admin Panel and the Pagoda Terminal Client are directly tied to Github's API"

Re: Pagoda goes in private beta - Heroku for PHP

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Post by shaunxcode »

tortilla wrote: post #5
shaunxcode wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

right? I was about to post some snarky comment about "php is the heroku for php" but then I went through their site and was actually impressed. It would be rad if they had a free tier which turned into a "paid" account if it hit a certain threshold.

They do have a free tier: http://www.pagodabox.com/pricing

hah I totally misunderstood that. Once you log into the dashboard it's really clear because you see the slider w/ $per 30 days. It would be cool to stick that on the pricing page directly.

From what I can see per 30 days: 1 clone($0.00) .. 25 clones($864.00)

Re: Pagoda goes in private beta - Heroku for PHP

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Post by mtogo »

tonius36 wrote: post #11
sparkygoblue wrote: post #10

Pulling only from github seems very restrictive to me. So, basically if I want to put a private project on PagodaBox, I have to also purchase a github account.

What's wrong with a github account? Give them some love. Their private option is cheap. Over all once you start using github it's hard to go any other route anyway.

So now i need to add $$ to my monthly expenses even though i'm already paying for a VPS that i host my git projects on?

I also disagree that it's hard to go any other route. Gitweb works great (the interface is better than github's imho) and it's free for unlimited public and private projects provided you already have a place to host it (i'd best 99% of HN users do).

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