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by sergiotapia 3915 days ago
This is a bummer for me. My meteor apps are large enough to not want to host on free `meteor deploy`, but small enough to not warrant a $500/month plan.

Where's the $40/month plan? The $100/month?

Also the fact that it doesn't come with the database is off putting. I was under the impression all these months that Galaxy would be a one-stop-shop for Meteor hosting.

Bummer, total bummer. I hope they come out with more middle ground pricing.
4 comments
heyitskevin 3914 days ago
For a cheap hosted option you can setup a Digital Ocean droplet at $10/month and use Meteor Up (https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-up/tree/mupx) for your deployments. This will include the database as well.

That link is to Meteor Up X(development version) which uses Docker just like Galaxy. Once it's stable it'll be merged into Meteor Up. I've been using it for prod/staging pushes and it works great even with SSL.

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rvanmil 3914 days ago
It says "Subscriptions for individuals are coming soon." on the pricing site.

https://www.meteor.com/why-meteor/pricing

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hanley 3914 days ago
Bummer here as well. And thanks for the tip about not including a database. I'm surprised they didn't mention that in the article! Seems misleading. Since the original free deploy does include the database and they didn't mention it not being included in the article I simply assumed it was included in Galaxy.
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faceyspacey 3914 days ago
It barely matters. Compose.io's mongo db service is also in aws east. It's simply a matter of pasting the mongo connection url they provide. The scalability they provide would be a waste of MDG's resources to build themselves. Perhaps they could automatically integrate with compose.io, but other than that its identical to what MDG could ever provide.

So unless ur bummed about costs again (i.e. the Compose.io costs on top of Galaxy's costs), U pretty much have everything u need now. It seems soon they will provide a cheaper account.

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maerF0x0 3914 days ago
+1 also MMS does all this for you. https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/
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janus24 3914 days ago
Scalingo (a Heroku-like) can host your meteor app http://doc.scalingo.com/languages/javascript/nodejs/meteor/
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