[futuremint]

If its free, who is footing the EC2 bill?

Which gives me the idea: it'd be cool to have a service like this and have it use a user-provided AWS account.

So you could use a service like this to automatically manage the EC2 instances, and then if you need to take control to expand your instances' functionality you just stop using the service.

Just a thought...

[ChrisMatthieu]

Great idea! I took notes on the installation of NodeFu on EC2. I would like to include them in the bootstrap readme in the repo so others can easily standup their own instances too.

[dickeytk]

so you need EC2 to use NodeFu? Not a dealbreaker, but I didn't get that from the splash page.

[ChrisMatthieu]

You can deploy it to your own instance of EC2 or Rackspace or GoGrid or you can run your apps directly on the http://NodeFu.com hosted platform.

[dickeytk]

gotcha! the hosted platform is killer! When I want to take the dive into node, I'll be sure to try this out!