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Hosting disrupted – 1 second installs, forking apps, container-based

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Re: Hosting disrupted – 1 second installs, forking apps, container-based

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Right now; no. We've got support in the works but we wanted to get the features tighter before we added another language. We use Node ourselves for our sites and it's important to us (and me) that we have it. tl;dr very very soon! :)

"Right now; no." No to all mentioned languages/frameworks or only no to Node.js?

It's PHP only right this second. We have a branch for Node, but we have no ETA on when that'll be live. We want it as much as you guys; so soon :)

Re: Hosting disrupted – 1 second installs, forking apps, container-based

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Appreciate the response. Certainly going to give it a go. I tweeted, but could you point me in the direction of your definition of a request?

Our request model is http requests. I'll try and make that clearer on the homepage.

Under pricing, it says '10 million visitors' in the copy. There's quite a difference between 10 million requests and 10 million visitors.

Re: Hosting disrupted – 1 second installs, forking apps, container-based

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Our request model is http requests. I'll try and make that clearer on the homepage.

Under pricing, it says '10 million visitors' in the copy. There's quite a difference between 10 million requests and 10 million visitors.

Thanks for that spot. We had our metrics labelled as visitors but felt it was too confusing. It's definitely requests. Will change it :)

Re: Hosting disrupted – 1 second installs, forking apps, container-based

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Hey, I currently host ~10 low traffic PHP websites on a $5/month DigitalOcean droplet. So far it works well, even on peak days when my wordpress blog has gotten ~15k visitors. I would love to switch to your service for the sheer convenience it brings, however I'm hesitant to part with $50 every month for this. $10 or $15 for a 100k hits per month plan would be a no brainer though.

And a $0.0001/request pricing model would totally revolutionise hosting :-).

Re: Hosting disrupted – 1 second installs, forking apps, container-based

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Impressive. It has been a long time since I signed up on any hosting plan just to give it a spin. Something on the page convinced me somehow to try it out and 5 minutes later I am happily viming through SSH at some index.html in a html5 boiler plate. I suppose that is because there are no credit card required (important for me as I don't have, don't need and don't want one). The set-up process was really smooth.

How do you usually pay for stuff online?

I rarely do. When I have to (or want to) I ask a relative or a close friend of mine. Usually my brother. I think in the last ten year I haven't made more than ten online purchases.

So... Not owning a credit cart isn't (for the moment) an inconvenience for me because I rarely need to use one and if I have to I can find someone to help me with it.

I pay my bills via the online banking system my bank set up though. I use a card (one issued by my bank to each of its clients that allows me to pay for stuff IRL or to retrieve cash from ATMs) with a little calculator-like device that churns out temporary authentication codes. This system only works with my bank though ; I can't use it to buy from online vendors[0]. But I don't think it qualifies as online purchases. It wouldn't let me buy hosting for instance :)

[0] there are some exceptions though. ie mobile company generates links that initiate a transaction I have to confirm via the calculator and by logging into my bank.

Re: Hosting disrupted – 1 second installs, forking apps, container-based

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Looks interesting but nothing on the site seems to answer my question: can I run node.js apps here? Flask? Or is it wordpress / PHP only?

Right now; no. We've got support in the works but we wanted to get the features tighter before we added another language. We use Node ourselves for our sites and it's important to us (and me) that we have it. tl;dr very very soon! :)

Happy to hear that, because disrupting using wordpress isn't disruptive enough for me ;)
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