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Re: Node.js Application Hosting Service running on Digital Ocean

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I have some questions and, please, don't get me wrong, I'm not being sarcastic. I am really interested in your services. I got a cheap server on DO I use to deploy some apps just for testing purpose and, sometimes, I think I waste too many time configuring, breaking stuff and fine-tunning my servers (I do like it but it's not very productive). The languages I play with are Python (Django and Flask), PHP (Symfony2 and…

I'm amazed something that works like stackful.io or heroku for your own servers has not been written yet. Like you, many tinkerers have a cheap server to use as a lab. It would be great if one could install on it some piece of software that provided heroku-like zero-friction deploy for new apps. Just do "app create", push a git repo and, bam, the app is deployed, with sensible defaults. The defaults are not supposed…

We're working on it: http://juju.ubuntu.com

Here's a simple example with rails, you can do the same with node or django apps: http://www.jorgecastro.org/2012/11/16/deploying-your-rails-a...

Re: Node.js Application Hosting Service running on Digital Ocean

#25
post #19

I have some questions and, please, don't get me wrong, I'm not being sarcastic. I am really interested in your services. I got a cheap server on DO I use to deploy some apps just for testing purpose and, sometimes, I think I waste too many time configuring, breaking stuff and fine-tunning my servers (I do like it but it's not very productive). The languages I play with are Python (Django and Flask), PHP (Symfony2 and…

I'm amazed something that works like stackful.io or heroku for your own servers has not been written yet. Like you, many tinkerers have a cheap server to use as a lab. It would be great if one could install on it some piece of software that provided heroku-like zero-friction deploy for new apps. Just do "app create", push a git repo and, bam, the app is deployed, with sensible defaults. The defaults are not supposed…

Our Chef-based stack(s) are open source and hosted on github. We are thinking of packaging them in a form that is convenient to run in a local Vagrant box or something of that sort, so that you can easily test your app without wrecking your production environment first.

Re: Node.js Application Hosting Service running on Digital Ocean

#26

With regards to Digital Ocean. My server there which I installed about a month ago (Amsterdam location), with 2GB of RAM is not responding for several hours now. Including not possible to reboot. Support says they're aware of the issue. But it's been several hours like this now. Never had with with Linode in my 3 years with them. Guess I'll be moving this server back.

Digital Ocean have been great so far, support and problem solving experience are amazing. Hopefully your problem will get fixed quickly.

Re: Node.js Application Hosting Service running on Digital Ocean

#27
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Looks nice, price seems right. I'll have to try it when I have some free time.

Thank you! Feedback and feature requests are welcome.

how about custom domain? Where can see/vote feature request publicly?

Re: Node.js Application Hosting Service running on Digital Ocean

#29
post #19

I have some questions and, please, don't get me wrong, I'm not being sarcastic. I am really interested in your services. I got a cheap server on DO I use to deploy some apps just for testing purpose and, sometimes, I think I waste too many time configuring, breaking stuff and fine-tunning my servers (I do like it but it's not very productive). The languages I play with are Python (Django and Flask), PHP (Symfony2 and…

I'm amazed something that works like stackful.io or heroku for your own servers has not been written yet. Like you, many tinkerers have a cheap server to use as a lab. It would be great if one could install on it some piece of software that provided heroku-like zero-friction deploy for new apps. Just do "app create", push a git repo and, bam, the app is deployed, with sensible defaults. The defaults are not supposed…

Not exactly what you're talking about (I think the linked `juju` is probably closer), but I came across Docker[0] recently.

It's more of a framework for managing deployments locally. -- It seems really cool but I haven't had a chance to play with it yet.

[0]: http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/examples/python_web_app/

Re: Node.js Application Hosting Service running on Digital Ocean

#30
post #19

I have some questions and, please, don't get me wrong, I'm not being sarcastic. I am really interested in your services. I got a cheap server on DO I use to deploy some apps just for testing purpose and, sometimes, I think I waste too many time configuring, breaking stuff and fine-tunning my servers (I do like it but it's not very productive). The languages I play with are Python (Django and Flask), PHP (Symfony2 and…

I'm amazed something that works like stackful.io or heroku for your own servers has not been written yet. Like you, many tinkerers have a cheap server to use as a lab. It would be great if one could install on it some piece of software that provided heroku-like zero-friction deploy for new apps. Just do "app create", push a git repo and, bam, the app is deployed, with sensible defaults. The defaults are not supposed…

What about Red Hat's Openshift or VMware's Cloud Foundry?

http://openshift.github.io/

http://cloudfoundry.github.io/

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