AppHarbor (YC W11) launches add-on ecosystem using Heroku's (YC W08) API

http://blog.appharbor.com/2011/06/27/announcing-add-ons

by troethom • 15 years ago

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benologist3• 15 years ago

Why's Redis so significantly more expensive than other services?

friism• 15 years ago

We don't set prices for add-on providers offerings, but note that Redis is an in-memory database and that memory is more expensive -- per GB -- than disk. (I'm an AppHarbor co-founder)

benologist3• 15 years ago

I know you guys don't set the price, just found it odd. It's persistent in-memory according to wikipedia, doesn't that make it like mongodb?

waratuman• 15 years ago

I'm not to familiar with .NET, but it is interesting to see other providers come up that are similar to Heroku. The add-on system that is developing is great. All of the providers are specializing in what they do best.

barrydahlberg• 15 years ago

Nice that they have add ons and pricing for them but I wish they'd sort out their own preliminary prices first...

http://appharbor.com/page/pricing

Until there is solid pricing and a decent story around support it's very hard to use for anything that matters.

drtse4• 15 years ago

Am i the only one who doesn't understand why someone should use a memcache/redis instance hosted by a third party?

I've never used this kind of services but the first impression is that just the RTT between your server and the third party's one will have a huge impact performance-wise, removing every advantage you could have from the use of these DBs.

And what about security? Are memcache/redis/mongoDB/etc... made to be exposed to the public internet (requests content and format are carefully inspected by the server and during development, the implementation have been tested carefully with fuzz testing or similar techniques) or these hosted solutions add an additional layer that increases security/safety?

These issues could be mitigates (not resolved) when both parties are on the same platform, but not everyone is on EC2/Heroku.

joshz• 15 years ago

At least in the case of Cloudant (CouchDB) the servers are in the same facility as AppHarbor.

http://blog.cloudant.com/dot-net-couchdb-cloudant-appharbor/

almightygod• 15 years ago

IMO the appharbor add-ons page is a poor replication of the already poor UX of the heroku add-ons page.

I get that your a heroku clone but it probably wouldn't hurt to show a little innovation.

mwdev• 15 years ago

This is a great addition! I'll have to start experimenting with moving off of SQL to Mongo.

AppHarbor (YC W11) launches add-on ecosystem using Heroku's (YC W08) API

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