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NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform

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Re: NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform

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so you need EC2 to use NodeFu? Not a dealbreaker, but I didn't get that from the splash page.

You can deploy it to your own instance of EC2 or Rackspace or GoGrid or you can run your apps directly on the http://NodeFu.com hosted platform.

gotcha! the hosted platform is killer! When I want to take the dive into node, I'll be sure to try this out!

Re: NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform

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Yea, I got tired of waiting for Heroku and Joyent invitations so I created NodeFu and open sourced it so that others could have fun too! The repo is at http://github.com/chrismatthieu/nodefu

Fantastic! Are there any real differences between the current node.js cloud platforms (nodefu, no.de, nodeJsCloud, Heroku's service etc...) from an architectural point of view?

For one Joyents no.de platform runs on their "accelerators" which are basically Solaris containers and there is a different package management system to deal with than you may be used to (they use pkgsrc) but it's pretty easy to figure out. Mostly you will just be using node package manager (npm) for node packages.

Re: NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform

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Yea, I got tired of waiting for Heroku and Joyent invitations so I created NodeFu and open sourced it so that others could have fun too! The repo is at http://github.com/chrismatthieu/nodefu

Fantastic! Are there any real differences between the current node.js cloud platforms (nodefu, no.de, nodeJsCloud, Heroku's service etc...) from an architectural point of view?

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Re: NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform

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Yea, I got tired of waiting for Heroku and Joyent invitations so I created NodeFu and open sourced it so that others could have fun too! The repo is at http://github.com/chrismatthieu/nodefu

Fantastic! Are there any real differences between the current node.js cloud platforms (nodefu, no.de, nodeJsCloud, Heroku's service etc...) from an architectural point of view?

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Re: NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform

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Has anything of significance actually been developed on Node yet? Seems like there is a lot of excitement about it (like the early Rails days), but I haven't seen any sites announcing they're written in it.

We're using it at Loggly for our HTTP inputs.

Re: NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform

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Has anything of significance actually been developed on Node yet? Seems like there is a lot of excitement about it (like the early Rails days), but I haven't seen any sites announcing they're written in it.

ReadWriteWeb had a piece on that topic today: http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/how-3-companies-are...

That pointed over to this longer piece about how Yammer, Proxlet and Bocoup are using Node.js: http://bostinnovation.com/2011/01/15/who-is-using-node-js-an...

Re: NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform

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Yea, I got tired of waiting for Heroku and Joyent invitations so I created NodeFu and open sourced it so that others could have fun too! The repo is at http://github.com/chrismatthieu/nodefu

Fantastic! Are there any real differences between the current node.js cloud platforms (nodefu, no.de, nodeJsCloud, Heroku's service etc...) from an architectural point of view?

Hi, so we wanted to chime in a bit. We are building our node.js hosting platform (nodeJSCloud) on our own hardware, in a data center. Going this route vs using 3rd party hardware EC2 or Rackspace, gives us complete flexibility to do some nifty things. We are going to e-mail out a newsletter shortly with additional details.
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