There seems to be a tendency in the nodejs community to try and use it in any and every situation, regardless of how suitable it is for that situation.
Although, you can do the same with node session module it seems like php anyway.
Or, if not git, then some other version control system. In the 21st century, a VCS really isn't optional.
Edit: It's working but needs a time to finish deployment
€ 6 / month
1 app instance
256MB RAM
1GB storage
Unlimited custom domains
FTP access
Free MongoDB database
Free support
I'm not saying that companies should have a free tier "by rights", only that it's a good way to get you sucked in whilst you develop your app and then when you scale you're unlikely to change provider.
We would up just using AWS, and sunk a few days into dev / sys ops.
I would happily pay for a solution to this problem
1- "Hosting for Node.js apps done right": Like everything else is done wrong? That's just weird.
2- What does "designed for cloud" mean?
3- "Free support"? How gullible do you think we are? At 6e/mo, anyone that believes they're getting any kind of "Free support" is wrong. Or else this service is going to fail big time.
Now some constructive criticism: I see "FTP access". But as a dev, I would have liked to see something like FTPS, SFTP or better yet, SSH.
As for criticism... that they charge premium for TLS on custom domains. While this is probably reasonable business decision, it does community a bit of bad service - additional costs for security discourages users from having one. And TLS already has that bar quite high.
My thinking is as follows: if I use a popular IAAS for servers to host customers node.js apps, and if I have instances with 15GB of ram, if I offer application instances that are allocated at most 256MB, then I can fit about 58 application instances on a server (allowing 500MB for the OS). At 6€ an instance (for the intro tier) that's 348€ a month
An EC2 M3.xlarge costs about $81 a month (3 year heavy reserved, amortizing one time payment over 36 months). Today that about 63€ a month. So they intend to make 290€ per server minus additional costs for mongodb hosting.
Does that jive with how you all figure these things?
- Continuous Deployment: automatic load-balancing, proper termination of instances, all seem to apply without documentation or not?!
- Redis: MongoDB for persistent data is fine in many cases but for performance nothing beats a key/value storage (also: some session storage works well with redis)
- Where is it hosted? Europe? Unusable for my location :)