Right now; no. We've got support in the works but we wanted to get the features tighter before we added another language. We use Node ourselves for our sites and it's important to us (and me) that we have it.
I think you should make your 4th package "Enterprise" rather than "Business" -- people spending that kind of money don't like to associate with 'business' folks.
Interesting point. We currently have a few people at that level, and we actually have always felt enterprise is a little bigger. But we'll have a think about this. Thanks! :)
We'll warn you before you get there. And if it happens, we'll give you a grace period and work with you on how we can find a solution so we're both happy.
Everything is super optimised, so don't worry about where things are. It's all been meticulously tested for speed. HOWEVER, they're separately on a Ceph cluster.
It's your space, and your CPU time. It won't affect anyone else. However, every member is subject to fair usage. We'll do whatever we can to be accommodating but if you're maxing out the CPU all the time, then we'll negotiate on what we can do to help you keep running.
Right now, a badge. We're contemplating what exactly to give. I suspect there'll be discounts and special rewards in the future though.
A startups life is really given life by the early adopters. And we think we should recognise those people for believing in us :) Hopefully we can in this way.
Impressive. It has been a long time since I signed up on any hosting plan just to give it a spin.
Something on the page convinced me somehow to try it out and 5 minutes later I am happily viming through SSH at some index.html in a html5 boiler plate. I suppose that is because there are no credit card required (important for me as I don't have, don't need and don't want one).
I rarely do. When I have to (or want to) I ask a relative or a close friend of mine. Usually my brother. I think in the last ten year I haven't made more than ten online purchases.
So... Not owning a credit cart isn't (for the moment) an inconvenience for me because I rarely need to use one and if I have to I can find someone to help me with it.
I pay my bills via the online banking system my bank set up though. I use a card (one issued by my bank to each of its clients that allows me to pay for stuff IRL or to retrieve cash from ATMs) with a little calculator-like device that churns out temporary authentication codes. This system only works with my bank though ; I can't use it to buy from online vendors[0]. But I don't think it qualifies as online purchases. It wouldn't let me buy hosting for instance :)
[0] there are some exceptions though. ie mobile company generates links that initiate a transaction I have to confirm via the calculator and by logging into my bank.
So I decided to do some really quick math here. Assuming a 30 day month and 1 request per second average that is 2.5 million requests. I don't know everyone else but I build web apps not web pages and requests to my api alone would exceed that a month. And I'm hosting stuff on $20 linode boxes that handle that just fine, heck a free tier AWS server handles that. No amount of "Ease" can offset that pricing. I'm very curious as to what kinds of apps they envision hosting, or if you're planning on using this what kind of apps are you hosting?
Our ease is worth it. If you save 1 hour of work, you've made your money back — and probably have even more. And honestly; not everyone has the skills to build stuff on Linode. Quite often they want to focus on just working on the client's website.
Our tech is very impressive. We've got a great development team working hard on building a very robust system. Using us you'd find that.
I can understand what you're saying though. But I can guarantee we're a different experience and result than plain old AWS or a blank Linode box.
This looks really cool and also impressive speed! I noticed when adding a custom (sub)domain it'd warn me about the domain not being registered. It does however seem to happily resolve to the site, so I'm happy!
Edit: Working now :) Also, mounting the folders over ssh feels very responsive and fast, great job.
What would hosting like this - heroku style - look like for JVM-backed apps? E.g. written in Closure, Scala or plain old Java, where you want to persist stuff between requests?
I'm an early beta user. Your web app is run in a virtual machine. You can store stuff to disk, in memory or in your own database (the PHP container gives you a database per default). I am not sure what happens to stuff in RAM if they choose to migrate you to a new host machine, though.
Sure, you could. But there's a ton of differences as you can see. It depends if you want automatic vs manual. And if you got the time to do manual, then I get that. But it's all about saving the users time, so they can focus on the core parts.
Dropbox could all be hosted on S3, but the ease is worth it. Etc.
Hey, I currently host ~10 low traffic PHP websites on a $5/month DigitalOcean droplet. So far it works well, even on peak days when my wordpress blog has gotten ~15k visitors. I would love to switch to your service for the sheer convenience it brings, however I'm hesitant to part with $50 every month for this. $10 or $15 for a 100k hits per month plan would be a no brainer though.
And a $0.0001/request pricing model would totally revolutionise hosting :-).
Tried it, like it. Worried about how easy it is to create a site without any 'are you human' checks though. Isn't this going to create tonnes of bot sites?
This was a worry to us. It'd be a big detriment to us if that happened. We're trying to keep the user the priority, rather than nasty captchas. So we've got our own implementations. The moment we see bots, we'll switch our strategy. :)
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nginx, php, mariadb, etc. Everything highly polished :)
However, it's supported and you're welcome to run it :)
A starter @ 15/20 quids would be reasonable.
Also, would like to know where the hardware is. Is it your own hosted in Stockholm? Multiple datacentres or just one?
looks like the storage is on a different server than the application? is that the same for the db ?
Everything is super optimised, so don't worry about where things are. It's all been meticulously tested for speed. HOWEVER, they're separately on a Ceph cluster.
encode video, transform images, other cpu/memory/disk/bandwidth intensive tasks
on each of those requests...
A startups life is really given life by the early adopters. And we think we should recognise those people for believing in us :) Hopefully we can in this way.
Something on the page convinced me somehow to try it out and 5 minutes later I am happily viming through SSH at some index.html in a html5 boiler plate. I suppose that is because there are no credit card required (important for me as I don't have, don't need and don't want one).
The set-up process was really smooth.
So... Not owning a credit cart isn't (for the moment) an inconvenience for me because I rarely need to use one and if I have to I can find someone to help me with it.
I pay my bills via the online banking system my bank set up though. I use a card (one issued by my bank to each of its clients that allows me to pay for stuff IRL or to retrieve cash from ATMs) with a little calculator-like device that churns out temporary authentication codes. This system only works with my bank though ; I can't use it to buy from online vendors[0]. But I don't think it qualifies as online purchases. It wouldn't let me buy hosting for instance :)
[0] there are some exceptions though. ie mobile company generates links that initiate a transaction I have to confirm via the calculator and by logging into my bank.
Jesus.
Our ease is worth it. If you save 1 hour of work, you've made your money back — and probably have even more. And honestly; not everyone has the skills to build stuff on Linode. Quite often they want to focus on just working on the client's website.
Our tech is very impressive. We've got a great development team working hard on building a very robust system. Using us you'd find that.
I can understand what you're saying though. But I can guarantee we're a different experience and result than plain old AWS or a blank Linode box.
Edit: Working now :) Also, mounting the folders over ssh feels very responsive and fast, great job.
What would hosting like this - heroku style - look like for JVM-backed apps? E.g. written in Closure, Scala or plain old Java, where you want to persist stuff between requests?
Thanks, but no.
Just a personal website would probably fit nicely into the Free plan :)
Dropbox could all be hosted on S3, but the ease is worth it. Etc.
And a $0.0001/request pricing model would totally revolutionise hosting :-).
Also, I hope people who sign up realize that jumpstarter.io is posting to Twitter under their names. Blech.