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Heroku2scalingo: migrate from Heroku to Scalingo in a minute
- mark_l_watson 11y agoI 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.
- jmnicolas 11y agoLooks 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).
- yannski 11y agoYep, you're right, we'll clarify that: we're renting bare metal servers from a french company which is not OVH http://www.agora-hosting.net/ http://www.agora-hosting.net/
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- michaelmior 11y agoI assume you mean rent them from a US company?
- maximedev 11y agoNo, they are French, based in France.
- xj9 11y ago"they should clarify if they own the servers or rent them to an US cloud company (Amazon / MS etc)." I think that was a grammatical question. As in, they don't rent to AWS or MS, but from them. (not that they actually do either)
- michaelmior 11y agoI understand that they are based in Europe. This was a grammatical question since the parent used the phrase "rent them to an US cloud company."
- jmnicolas 11y agoYou're perfectly right I should have written "from". I can't edit the sentence anymore though.
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- adam-_- 11y agoHas anyone used scalingo? How has the experience been? The pricing is favourable but I've never heard of them.
- andrelaszlo 11y agoMaybe they're leveraging the recent outrage over Heroku/CISA? https://www.youbetrayedus.org/heroku/ https://www.youbetrayedus.org/heroku/
- fomb 11y agoWhich isn't even a thing. https://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/press-releases/2015/09/150925.jsp https://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/press-releases...
- andrelaszlo 11y agoThat's nice!
- yannski 11y agoIn 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.
- Rdtas 11y agoI've used it for a couple of projects and it works great! The CLI tools are really helpful
- netgusto 11y agoYup I have, and it's pretty much everything you expect a PaaS to be. The S container feels way faster than a HK dyno, imho.
- a12b 11y agoI used them once, it's a good service. I prefer Scalingo over Heroku because there is no virtualisation layer.
- hellofunk 11y agoThis 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.
- mark_l_watson 11y agoGood 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.
- yeasayer 11y agoDoes Scalingo offers free plan like Heroku?
- gamesbrainiac 11y agoThey have a free trial, not a free plan. Free plan is for 30 days and does not require a credit card.
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- yannski 11y agoUnfortunately, we had to discontinue our free plan. Too much work for no money :/ We setup a free trial instead (30 days, no credit card required).
- hankmander 11y agoHow is it with plugins and Scalingo? We use a lot of heroku plugins for mongodb, logging, monitoring etc.
- yunti 11y agoI'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?
- yannski 11y agoYou may find what you want from our addons list here: https://scalingo.com/addons https://scalingo.com/addons We have an addon provider API http://developers.scalingo.com/addon-provider-api/ http://developers.scalingo.com/addon-provider-api/ and we're now working with several third party providers to enrich our marketplace.
- Paulods 11y agoInteresting. You should look into providing servers in Japan. Heroku won't and it's a big issue here in Tokyo.
- yannski 11y agoWe'll have a new location in Singapore in the coming weeks/months. But if I understand well, it's not enough for japanese users?
- wichert 11y agoA Singapore location would be incredibly useful for me. Is there some way to get a notice when that becomes available?
- helloiamaperson 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10333576 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10333576
- yannski 11y agoSubscribe to our mailing list here: http://scalingo.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=208037d122a791275e9a8465a&id=b91688b390 http://scalingo.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=208037d122a7...
- revicon 11y agoHeroku private spaces is available in Tokyo now... https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/9/10/heroku_private_spaces_private_paas_delivered_as_a_service https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/9/10/heroku_private_sp...
- Paulods 11y agoAs far as i know private spaces are part of Heroku Enterprise and prohibitively expensive for most startups.
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- fermigier 11y agoIs "Leo Unbekandt" the real name of your CTO, or a pseudonym ?
- _Soulou 11y agoI think it's my real name, proof underneath :-) http://i.imgur.com/onAPdMr.jpg http://i.imgur.com/onAPdMr.jpg
- vidarh 11y agoAny interesting story behind the surname? (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)
- _Soulou 11y agoInteresting 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.
- yunti 11y agoWhat are the uptime metrics on Scalingo? I see there are no uptime guarantees /SLAs. http://www.paasify.it/vendors/scalingo http://www.paasify.it/vendors/scalingo Here is heroku's uptime metric by way of benchmark. https://status.heroku.com/uptime?region=EU https://status.heroku.com/uptime?region=EU
- tylerflint 11y agoHow do you keep containers isolated? Do you just run multiple docker containers from different apps on the same host? Do you provide any sort of network isolation between apps?
- _Soulou 11y agoCurrently, 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.