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The future is DotCloud

by robspychala on 5/18/11, 2:57 PM with 19 comments

  • by lux on 5/18/11, 4:08 PM

    Been developing on DotCloud for a month or two now, and minus a couple very minor hiccups it's been fantastic. Some things I'm really looking forward to though:

    * Pre-install hooks in addition to their post-install ones (to, for example, move file x, push update, move it back)

    * Some kind of admin panel with usage monitoring

    * Pricing announcement (would help to plan for the future, since I plan on deploying with DotCloud too obviously)

    * An API for accessing the DotCloud commands programmatically from a service, to do things like 'dotcloud alias' within an app

    Actually, that's about it. It'll be nice to see some additional service types stabilize (particularly mongo & memcache), but other than the above it's really been an amazing platform to work with, and the functionality/simplicity balance is very well thought out.

  • by steverb on 5/18/11, 4:57 PM

    Slightly OT

    Is there an open source platform similar to DotCloud/Heroku? We really need something just like this for our private/internal use.

    Or alternatively, does anyone license such a thing? I'm sure I could find the $ for the right product.

  • by tomasdev on 5/18/11, 3:11 PM

    :D DotCloud FTW, the point is it takes so long to get approved for an account.

  • by sawyer on 5/18/11, 6:26 PM

    The problem with PaaS and cloud hosting in general is price. Most experienced hackers are used to managing hardware, so why not stick with dedicated or colo and retain affordable scalability?