Appfog - 2GB RAM FREE! (PaaS)

telephone

Appfog is a Paas provider that recently launched 2GB RAM instances for free :)

Instances can be created in: 1) AWS - Virginia 2) AWS - Ireland 3) AWS - Singapore 4) Rackspace - Dallas 5) MS Azure - San Antonio (Coming soon) 6) HP Openstack - Arizona (Coming soon)

Minimum RAM per app/instance = 128MB Disk space per app = 2GB Bandwidth = 50GB ($0.15/GB after)

Supports: - Java - NodeJS - Ruby - Python - PHP - etc...

Limitations: 1) No shell access 2) Only CNAME capable 3) Low bandwidth (but decent if instances are in Singapore) 4) Have to use their Ruby app to push code

Overall though, I've been playing with it for 24hrs and I have to say I'm quite impressed. In fact, I'll probably use a Singapore instance as a mirror.

Link: Appfog

fly

cool!

Liam

Does it require credit card info?

telephone

@liam said: Does it require credit card info?

Nope.

fan

Beating most LEB's. xD

jcaleb

how long can someone keep the free service?

dearroy

Awesome, as @jcaleb asked,how long can be kept for the service?

Liam

pretty awesome. Running a wordpress blog on it.

Liam

@dearroy said: as @jcaleb asked,how long can be kept for the service?

for life

NanoG6

Interesting. Can we host wordpress there?

dearroy

@NanoG6 said: Interesting. Can we host worspress there?

Yes we can and i am installing it.

NickM

I don't see how this can be a viable business model... that said, I'm signing up. I'll use it for... something.

NanoG6

Ya I was on mobile before. Now back on dekstop, I'm also installing it :D Still haven't figured out how to upload our own site / code

Liam

50GB very good for singapore and Ireland to be fair. Both very expensive in terms on bandwidth.

telephone

@dearroy said: as @jcaleb asked,how long can be kept for the service?

They have the funding, and if you look at their paid plans/addons, it's clearly not the cheapest option out there.

@NanoG6 said: Still haven't figured out how to upload our own site / code

1) Install Ruby 2)

gem install af
af login
af update app_name


For "af update app_name", only issue the command when your in your web root via terminal.
In other words, change the active directory in terminal to the folder you wish to upload, 
then initiate the command.

Run "af --help" for more options.

You may also want to check out their support section for some useful hints: Support home Community support Using databases with PHP

MrAndroid

Can you install your own PHP modules?

giang

I'm trying to register and it said I already got an account =(

jcaleb

Thanks @telephone for the share

telephone

@giang said: I'm trying to register and it said I already got an account =(

Only thing I can think of is you may already have an account with PHPFog? Anyway just use another email. They don't even verify email as of yet.

@MrLawoodle said: Can you install your own PHP modules?

Nope, launch an app and upload a phpinfo() file to check the loaded modules. But if it's essential, you could hit up their support or Google groups.

Presbytis

Wow, i've been wait for appfog's launch. It support python too. Wow! *moveFromOpenshift

giang

@telephone said: Only thing I can think of is you may already have an account with PHPFog? Anyway just use another email. They don't even verify email as of yet.

Thank you. I've used Forgot password and created new password for this email :P I was trying to import my wordpress blog but they limited 2MB in php.ini :(

telephone

@giang You can tunnel a connection to upload the database if that's what was causing the problem. I think it's "af tunnel"

EDIT: How do you migrate your MySQL database to AppFog?

Andri

Encourage myself to learn ruby. Thanks for sharing @telephone. :)

dragonballz2k

Nice they finnaly lauched. There is so many thing you can do with the service. one example Make cdn in every location and the mirror it again two make two copys

ElliotJ

This is awesome, thanks for the share @telephone :)

@telephone said: Supports: - Java

Now then, who's going to be the first idiot to try and run Minecraft?

ihatetonyy

@ElliotJ said: Now then, who's going to be the first idiot to try and run Minecraft?

So.. you can't run Minecraft on it?

Useless.

Jeffrey

This little thing is great! Just wish there was SSH access. :/

jarland

Very cool find. I like the website design too.

ynzheng

no useful if no shell

like a shared hosting？

telephone

@ynzheng They're not providing VPS' or IaaS, They're providing PaaS which essentially is a preconfigured environment that can be scaled with the click of a button. For this type of setup shell isn't required as everything is preconfigured, or can be added with a click of the button.

With shared hosting you can't launch a new instance in a different location to deal with a burst of traffic. Sign up and have a go, and then you'll notice the difference.

http://blog.appfog.com/traditional-vs-paas-hosting/

fly

have you used heroku? it's very similar.