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NodeFu Launches - Opensource Node.js hosting platform
- alexyoung 16y agoHeroku does have experimental Node support if anyone is interested: http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/9/20/an_update_on_heroku_node_js_support/ http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/9/20/an_update_on_herok... And Joyent's Node service is pretty good too: https://no.de/ https://no.de/
- bobds 16y agoThere's also http://webbynode.com/ http://webbynode.com/ They have ready-made stacks with Node.js, Rails and Django.
- pdelgallego 16y agoDuostack has also a nodejs setup. I have been working on a small game and so far I am very happy with how it works. http://www.duostack.com http://www.duostack.com
- indexzero 16y agoMy company Nodejitsu (http://nodejitsu.com http://nodejitsu.com) also provides a node.js Cloud Platform-as-a-Service. I'm the author of forever and node-http-proxy and it's good to see our production quality node.js software being used by other people :-)
- davej 16y agoJust to add to the list, there's also nodeJsCloud: http://www.nodejscloud.com/ http://www.nodejscloud.com/
- danyork 16y agoThanks to everyone providing the links to all these services. I knew of some of them, but not others. Thanks!
- vladd 16y agoOn the same line of thought, we're working on http://www.erbix.com http://www.erbix.com which provides Server-side JavaScript hosting (and a browser-based code editor) using the open-source Rhino engine. To help SSJS in getting main-stream adoption, we've coded some apps, Erbix Forms and Erbix Blog, written completely in JS, which we've open sourced and launched in the Erbix App Store ( https://secure.erbix.com/marketplace https://secure.erbix.com/marketplace ). If you have any feedback let us know.
- dickeytk 16y agoI would definitely be inclined to go with the Joyent service since that's where Ryan Dahl (creator of node) works. And Heroku pretty much rules this realm. But competitors are good!!
- js4all 16y agoTo complete the list: http://apps.jgate.de http://apps.jgate.de It is based on AppJet and CouchDB.
- sedachv 16y agoJoyent employs ryah. They've been around for 6 years, although I'm not sure how long they've been doing server-side JS (at least since they bought Reasonably Smart at the start of 2009).
- maushu 16y agoAnd http://www.akshell.com/ http://www.akshell.com/
- ChrisMatthieu 16y agoYea, I got tired of waiting for Heroku and Joyent invitations so I created NodeFu and open sourced it so that others could have fun too! The repo is at http://github.com/chrismatthieu/nodefu http://github.com/chrismatthieu/nodefu
- davej 16y agoFantastic! Are there any real differences between the current node.js cloud platforms (nodefu, no.de, nodeJsCloud, Heroku's service etc...) from an architectural point of view?
- andymoe 16y agoFor one Joyents no.de platform runs on their "accelerators" which are basically Solaris containers and there is a different package management system to deal with than you may be used to (they use pkgsrc) but it's pretty easy to figure out. Mostly you will just be using node package manager (npm) for node packages.
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- nodejscloud 16y agoHi, so we wanted to chime in a bit. We are building our node.js hosting platform (nodeJSCloud) on our own hardware, in a data center. Going this route vs using 3rd party hardware EC2 or Rackspace, gives us complete flexibility to do some nifty things. We are going to e-mail out a newsletter shortly with additional details.
- vamsee 16y agoThanks for this, I couldn't find the link to github easily. Please put it in a slightly more prominent place, so people get what you mean by "open source node hosting platform". Great job!
- futuremint 16y agoIf 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 16y agoGreat 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 16y agoso you need EC2 to use NodeFu? Not a dealbreaker, but I didn't get that from the splash page.
- ChrisMatthieu 16y agoYou 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 http://NodeFu.com hosted platform.
- dickeytk 16y agogotcha! the hosted platform is killer! When I want to take the dive into node, I'll be sure to try this out!
- aonic 16y agoLooks great! Thanks for open sourcing it so others can learn from what's involved in creating these type of services
- inji 16y agoWhy the name?
- ChrisMatthieu 16y agoBecause the domain and twitter handles were available. Other name choices like Nodester and Nodeku were not available on Twitter.
- RobertKohr 16y agoThat is cool, because NodeFu sounds much better than either of those names. It is a pretty cool name.
- futuremint 16y agoAlso, you really might want to add some read permissions to your CouchDB on CouchOne. Currently all nodefu global config data is world readable.
- ChrisMatthieu 16y agoThanks! CouchDB is now secured.
- hrmmmmm 16y agoLogo and company name seems very similar to http://www.nodejitsu.com http://www.nodejitsu.com It's also curious NodeFu seem to be using some of Nodejitsu's open-source offerings to make this work. ( https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy and https://github.com/indexzero/forever https://github.com/indexzero/forever ). Are NodeFu and Nodejitsu the same company?
- ChrisMatthieu 16y agoNodeFu is not a company but rather an open source project. It does use the http-proxy module - https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy
- hrmmmmm 16y agoI'm even more confused now. Is NodeFu the open-source offering for Nodejitsu? If NodeFu isn't a company, how can it be the "heroku for node.js".
- indexzero 16y agoI am founder of Nodejitsu. Nodejitsu and Nodefu are not related in anyway, although based on reading these comments it looks like NodeFu does use open source software we wrote, which is great to see http://github.com/nodejitsu http://github.com/nodejitsu http://github.com/indexzero http://github.com/indexzero Node to win :-D
- desigooner 16y agoAm I missing something here? Because Nodejitsu's logo is a bonsai tree and NodeFu's is a ninja ...
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- cfontes 16y agoI like the name... nothing wrong with it. And congrats for the initiative ! Learning some Ruby now but next step is Node.js, then I will try it out.
- ChrisMatthieu 16y agoIt looks like this story made it to Mashable! http://twitter.com/#!/chrismatthieu/status/27435153945010176 http://twitter.com/#!/chrismatthieu/status/27435153945010176
- KTamas 16y agoAre there any information about the length of the waiting list for coupons?
- ChrisMatthieu 16y agoWe are planning to release the next batch of 50 coupons on Friday! Stay tuned...
- ChrisMatthieu 16y agoIt looks like @NodeFu has a new corporate sponsor! Thanks Tropo (http://tropo.com http://tropo.com)!
- dickeytk 16y agoLove your ninja
- js4all 16y agoI like the fu scheme. Great idea. Sensei, are you still giving out coupons? The site is down for me. /edit: It's now reachable again. Thanks.
- ChrisMatthieu 16y agoThe site had an out-of-memory error probably from all of the Mashable traffic. It's only been online for 2 days and needs more tuning. Thanks everyone!
- js4all 16y agoThis proves, there is a lot of demand for such a solution and you had an idea, that people like a lot. Congrats.
- Kilimanjaro 16y agoThere is a huuuge demand for ssjs but hard core coders don't want to accept JS is a great programming language for the whole web stack, including mobile apps.
- ChrisMatthieu 16y agoNodeFu has just surpassed 150 hosted node.js applications since the launch on yesterday - http://nodefu.com/status http://nodefu.com/status
- ChrisMatthieu 16y agoNew blog post just released: NodeFu - Free Hosting of Your Node.JS Apps In The Cloud! http://t.co/iHIuTtb http://t.co/iHIuTtb < It's a step-by-step example for deploying a @Tropo node.js communications application on NodeFu!
- ChrisMatthieu 16y agoNew NodeFu blog post (Node.js Coming of Age) spotted at http://www.voiceingov.org/blog/?p=2228 http://www.voiceingov.org/blog/?p=2228
- rufugee 16y agoHas anything of significance actually been developed on Node yet? Seems like there is a lot of excitement about it (like the early Rails days), but I haven't seen any sites announcing they're written in it.
- kordless 16y agoWe're using it at Loggly for our HTTP inputs.
- danyork 16y agoReadWriteWeb had a piece on that topic today: http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/how-3-companies-are-using-node.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/how-3-companies-are... That pointed over to this longer piece about how Yammer, Proxlet and Bocoup are using Node.js: http://bostinnovation.com/2011/01/15/who-is-using-node-js-and-why-yammer-bocoup-proxlet-and-yahoo/ http://bostinnovation.com/2011/01/15/who-is-using-node-js-an...
- petercooper 16y agoAnd.. it's an "under construction" PPC link page already. 2 days!?