NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform (opens in new tab)

(nodefu.com)

84 pointsChrisMatthieu15y ago49 comments

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alexyoung15y ago· 10 in thread

Heroku does have experimental Node support if anyone is interested:

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/9/20/an_update_on_herok...

And Joyent's Node service is pretty good too:

https://no.de/

vladd15y ago

On the same line of thought, we're working on http://www.erbix.com which provides Server-side JavaScript hosting (and a browser-based code editor) using the open-source Rhino engine.

To help SSJS in getting main-stream adoption, we've coded some apps, Erbix Forms and Erbix Blog, written completely in JS, which we've open sourced and launched in the Erbix App Store ( https://secure.erbix.com/marketplace ).

If you have any feedback let us know.

pdelgallego15y ago

Duostack has also a nodejs setup.

I have been working on a small game and so far I am very happy with how it works.

http://www.duostack.com

indexzero15y ago

My company Nodejitsu (http://nodejitsu.com) also provides a node.js Cloud Platform-as-a-Service.

I'm the author of forever and node-http-proxy and it's good to see our production quality node.js software being used by other people :-)

bobds15y ago

There's also http://webbynode.com/

They have ready-made stacks with Node.js, Rails and Django.

sedachv15y ago

Joyent employs ryah. They've been around for 6 years, although I'm not sure how long they've been doing server-side JS (at least since they bought Reasonably Smart at the start of 2009).

dickeytk15y ago

I would definitely be inclined to go with the Joyent service since that's where Ryan Dahl (creator of node) works. And Heroku pretty much rules this realm.

But competitors are good!!

maushu15y ago

And http://www.akshell.com/

davej15y ago

Just to add to the list, there's also nodeJsCloud: http://www.nodejscloud.com/

danyork15y ago

Thanks to everyone providing the links to all these services. I knew of some of them, but not others. Thanks!

js4all15y ago

To complete the list: http://apps.jgate.de It is based on AppJet and CouchDB.

ChrisMatthieuOP15y ago· 4 in thread

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

davej15y ago

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?

nodejscloud15y ago

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.

andymoe15y ago

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.

vamsee15y ago

Thanks for this, I couldn't find the link to github easily. Please put it in a slightly more prominent place, so people get what you mean by "open source node hosting platform". Great job!

hrmmmmm15y ago· 3 in thread

Logo and company name seems very similar to http://www.nodejitsu.com It's also curious NodeFu seem to be using some of Nodejitsu's open-source offerings to make this work. ( https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy and https://github.com/indexzero/forever ).

Are NodeFu and Nodejitsu the same company?