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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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Post by zachinglis »

agumonkey wrote: post #50
zachinglis wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ;)

Right now it's an easy win. There's a lot of people still using it and it fits nicely into our current user base. But we totally agree!

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

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Post by emilv »

porker wrote: post #37

The architecture page is great http://jumpstarter.io/technical but all these providers are for a 'Shared nothing' setup. What would hosting like this - heroku style - look like for JVM-backed apps? E.g. written in Closure, Scala or plain old Java, where you want to persist stuff between requests?

I'm an early beta user. Your web app is run in a virtual machine. You can store stuff to disk, in memory or in your own database (the PHP container gives you a database per default). I am not sure what happens to stuff in RAM if they choose to migrate you to a new host machine, though.

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

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Post by zachinglis »

notacoward wrote: post #53

The use of Ceph is interesting. For what? VM images? (Disclaimer: I'm a GlusterFS developer.) Also, I hope people who sign up realize that jumpstarter.io is posting to Twitter under their names. Blech.

It's actually not. People click a tweet button, then review and post their tweet. :)

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

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Post by zachinglis »

slimbods wrote: post #54

Tried it, like it. Worried about how easy it is to create a site without any 'are you human' checks though. Isn't this going to create tonnes of bot sites?

This was a worry to us. It'd be a big detriment to us if that happened. We're trying to keep the user the priority, rather than nasty captchas. So we've got our own implementations. The moment we see bots, we'll switch our strategy. :)

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

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Post by hibbelig »

zachinglis wrote: post #7
moconnor wrote: post #3

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! :)

IWBNI the site actually said that. I combed the site for a while to understand which kind of application and framework I can use.

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

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Post by toomuchtodo »

zachinglis wrote: post #45
SchizoDuckie wrote: post #43

$50 for a month for a personal website? Thanks, but no.

Many websites. I use it for me and my clients too. :) Which works out really nicely. Just a personal website would probably fit nicely into the Free plan :)

Or I could host it in S3 for ~$15/year.

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

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Post by odonnellryan »

zachinglis wrote: post #12
odonnellryan wrote: post #9

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Tech stack?

http://jumpstarter.io/technical should answer a lot of your questions, however… nginx, php, mariadb, etc. Everything highly polished :)

Awesome, very cool! It's fun to see what people come up with to solve certain problems. Good luck!
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