In fact we started the project in june 2013 because even though we were very fond of the way of thinking proposed by Heroku (git push and that's all), their pricing was way too high to target a lot more people.
Since 6 months, I've got a couple application in production there. Got a couple bugs during the beta, which were quickly fixed apart from that everything is fine.
Looks interesting for Europeans that don't want their servers accessed / seized by the FBI, but they should clarify if they own the servers or rent them to an US cloud company (Amazon / MS etc).
On their data-center page they just show a map with their 2 data-centers (both are in France, they might use OVH).
This is very nice to see another contender in the PaaS arena, one that also uses the mechanisms Heroku put in place. What really remains to be seen, however, is the reliability of the service. Our production app has been on Heroku for over a year now and we've had very little issue with things, and there is certainly a lot that can go wrong in a complex environment.
Good point. I have different reliability requirements, I think, from most developers. Since I like to travel a lot, my measurement for reliability is how secure I feel that my apps will stay running on server reboots or equipment failure/replacement.
I consider most VPS vendors to be reliable in the sense that as long as /etc/roc.local, or a modern equivalent, starts all services on reboot. But, I feel more secure with a PaaS provider who I trust. For now I am using Azure for VPS (Bizspark participant) and Heroku and Bluemix for PaaS.
I like to use PaaS so it is good to see competition. It looks like a 512MB instance is about half way between Heroku hobby and professional plans: $7 to $18 to $25 per month.
The Heroku hobby plan, which is what I use, lacks the easy horizontal scaling.
Currently, we are running multiple containers from different apps on the same host. These containers are running with unprivileged users and reduced capabilities but in the same network. It will probably change in the future for a higher level of isolation.
(Might be worth explaining why it sounds made up/like a pseudonym: Unbekannt in German means unknown; similar variations has the same meaning in a range of Germanic languages)
Interesting not really, someone in my family made some research about its past and return to the XVIIth century. From there, we can only make assumptions.
I'd love to hear more about your use case and what I could do to improve the situation. You can contact me with the email address in my profile if you're interested. Thanks!
I'm really keen to know this too. I see they have add-ons for postgres, redis etc... but what about sentry, new relic? What would be the process to work with those?
