On Cloud: Show off your rails or merb app with free hosting

http://oncloud.org/

by wallop • 16 years ago

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adelevie• 16 years ago

What's the catch?

nkh• 16 years ago

You can do the same with Heroku:

sudo gem install heroku

heroku keys:add

heroku create

git push heroku master

heroku open

stormbrew3• 16 years ago

It's quite different from Heroku. With Heroku you're deploying your app to a foreign hosting service. With oncloud you're running it locally while making it accessible publicly. No need to push anything anywhere and you have full access to your local filesystem.

cmelbye• 16 years ago

Oh, that's cool. I didn't realize that about the service at first. They serve two very different and very useful niches.

atambo• 16 years ago

I wonder what kind of latency hit you get from routing your requests through a proxy and more importantly how long the polling delay of the BRIDGE requests are.

papersmith2• 16 years ago

I'd be really cool if they support wildcard subdomains, as my current project relies on it.

stormbrew3• 16 years ago

I saw someone doing it in the logs (possibly you?) and plan to add that. Probably in the next couple of days along with some other changes to the client libraries.

papersmith2• 16 years ago

Awesome, thanks!

pkc• 16 years ago

Great idea. Was looking for something like this to show some prototype. Was wondering is it necessary to be restricted only to rails app? For ex., I can host a wiki and try to get static address with your service. Might want to check dyndsn sort of services.

On Cloud: Show off your rails or merb app with free hosting

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