Fluxflex: GitHub integrated cloud hosting, starting at $1/month

https://www.fluxflex.com/

by iamclovin • 15 years ago

52 62 15 years ago

keikubo12• 15 years ago

I'm the founder of fluxflex, and am willing to answer any questions. Fluxflex now supports PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, Node.js and Haskell. We'll support additional languages in near future.

adrianwaj• 15 years ago

How would this compare to something like Django Zoom? Can you give some background as to how you came up with your service and the goals of it?

keikubo12• 15 years ago

Hi Andrian. We bring the power of social coding (GitHub) into a cloud hosting platform (fluxflex), and I believe the multi-language support is critical point to achive it. Taking advantage of social knowledge and cllaboratoin with other developers will reduce initial learning curves for trying new technologies, and will amplify the joyful energy instead. Our goal is to let the web application development faster, easier and more amusing.

Now you can install various popular applications with one-click. These applicatoins include Rails, Node.js, Coffee script, Django, Catalyst, Mojolicious, Lokka, Haskell and so on. Because we use GitHub on its backend, you can access to the source code easily, and fork it to start developing your original applications.

On ther other hand, if you have an existing repository on GitHub, you can automate the deployment process by specifying the reposity in a form on fluxflex.

As the result of these collaborations, I believe web applications development will become more pleasant.

beseku• 15 years ago

A few things regarding the pricing page - firstly, the text underneath the 'Quota' box makes little to no sense to a native English speaker. I cant even offer a translation myself, whcih I would be happy to do, since I don;t understand what you are trying to say.

Secondly, alot of your pricing package details are in very small fractions of GB. It would be easier for people to make comparisons, and thus realise you may be cheaper, if you used megabytes instead, no?

keikubo12• 15 years ago

Thnaks for your comment.

At first, we are in the process of refine the phrases on the Web with some native English speakers, and will clarify the description soon.

Second, we just use GB instead of MB because we will increase the free quota in future. Current quota is for temporal use to avoid paying too much unexpected infrastructure cost.

Thanks for your advice.

teyc4• 15 years ago

I think you charge too little to assure serious users that you will be around in the future.

georgecalm• 15 years ago

Kei, I've just installed the node_sample "Hello World!" project on the free plan, and noticed it was running a bit slow. Apache bench shows an avg of 1471ms/req over 100 requests (from NJ). Do you provide faster response-times on the other plans? Where are the data-centers located?

keikubo12• 15 years ago

We are based on Amazon Web Services (ELB + EC2 + nginx + powerdns + apache + FastCGI). I admit the current response time is very slow, but our team members make a lot of effort to improve it.

It may be the different issue, but some node hackers may disagree to use Node.js with Apache + FastCGI. However, it is our challenge to make the node technology available not only to geeks but also to light users who will take advantage of server side javascript.

We'll improve the performance and I welcome any advices!

avolcano• 15 years ago

So incredibly pedantic, but since it's better than no one telling you: typo on https://www.fluxflex.com/about, "Share you applications with one click" header

Otherwise, looks pretty damn cool. Definitely will watch this :)

edit: also, under that header, "applicatoins" in the second bullet

teyc4• 15 years ago

Also "Statictics"

teyc4• 15 years ago

What NPM (NodeJs) modules do you support? How does one enable them?

mechanical_fish• 15 years ago

Clicking on this link brings up some sort of cert error in mobile Safari. Just FYI.

keikubo12• 15 years ago

It's fixed. Thanks for the report. :)

ojilles• 15 years ago

Still there on Chrome/Mac OS

Inufu• 15 years ago

Also still there on Chromium/Ubuntu 11.04

chanux• 15 years ago

On Firefox, Ubuntu 11.04. Doesn't work even after I accepted the cert.

coffeejunk• 15 years ago

Still a problem on safari (iOS)

nodata3• 15 years ago

No it's not: your hostname is wrong, and your cert is self-signed.

Check https://www.wormly.com/test_ssl/h/www.fluxflex.com/i/64.27.5...

mborromeo• 15 years ago

Hum no. Still having issues with Chrome + OSX.

Check your certificates with "openssl s_client -showcerts -connect www.fluxflex.com:443"

Moreover, even ignoring SSL issues, i get an empty page.

poissonpie• 15 years ago

Ubuntu 11.04 Google Chrome - ssl error and blank page.....

NARKOZ• 15 years ago

still not fixed

gersh• 15 years ago

How does it work? How does it handle configuration and installation?

keikubo12• 15 years ago

You can write a configuration file named .flx and we will run commands according to the description in it. "Lokka on fluxflex" is a greate example for understanding how the configuration and the deployment work on fluxflex. You can read the source code at https://github.com/sowawa/lokka.

Various one-click install applications are hosted on GitHub, and you can fork, merge and push on GitHub as well as just install the application on fluxflex.

teyc4• 15 years ago

I hope that shell script is properly jailed.

ladon86• 15 years ago

Your prices are too low.

keikubo12• 15 years ago

I don't think so. But if you think so, just pay $1/month to support us! Thanks in advance!

shii• 15 years ago

We want to give you more money. It also gives you a little more legitimacy to an already impressive product.

As the great patio11 said[1]: Charge more. Nothing uber crazy since you have to compete with the likes of Github and others you're competing with, but $1 sounds a little ridiculous. But maybe that's part of the gimmick ;)

Great stuff, keep it up!

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=641545

ernestipark• 15 years ago

Just got a 500 when I signed up... but it went through anyways and took me to my account page.

jahmed2• 15 years ago

I got that too

bricestacey• 15 years ago

When I visit on iPad it says it cannot verify the identity of your server... May want to look into that to increase customer confidence.

drivebyacct2• 15 years ago

The certificate is fine here.

ashconnor• 15 years ago

The same result on an iPhone.

tunaslut• 15 years ago

also getting a cert error - when i proceed anyway i get no content on the page. I'm on OSX, running Google Chrome.

p4bl0• 15 years ago

Same behavior here, using Iceweasel (Firefox) 5 on Debian GNU/Linux.

thomasvendetta• 15 years ago

I just deployed a project to layar.fluxflex.com.. It says it's deployed, but I get a 404. Any ideas?

blasdel• 15 years ago

So it's nearlyfreespeech.net but with semi-persistent workers like Heroku?

I agree that the pricing is too low for you to make money on top of AWS and also deliver decent service, it's hard to imagine that you could stick around — at the very least you should emphasize how developers don't end up tied into your platform.

jahmed2• 15 years ago

This is actually really cool. Its the kind of thing I've been really wanting to get the Cloud9 guys to get working with dotcloud. A huge stumbling block for me has been working on my CR-48. Dotcloud, heroku need you to install their CLI witch will obviously give you much more power and flexibility but cant be done if you don't have terminal access.

Now some will say why would you even try to do any kind of dev work without proper tools but I think this really lowers the bar and gives people another frictionless way to get their hands dirty.

grork• 15 years ago

Well, it appears the certificate is invalid on https (which is what this item linked to), and no content on http. :(

dchs• 15 years ago

Same here

freddealmeida• 15 years ago

site seems hacked, and now down. Anyone one else seeing that?

Marwy• 15 years ago

It's down for me.

mike-cardwell• 15 years ago

The SSL certificate is for "redirector.zerigo.net", and is self signed. If I add an exception to my browser I get through, but all I get is a completely blank page and a 404 status code.

Is anyone seeing an actual website at the moment?

tren• 15 years ago

Typo here: https://www.fluxflex.com/registrations

"Regsiter"

Followed by 500 internal error

bpp198• 15 years ago

Any plans for postgres?

grep• 15 years ago

I can't open the site on Chrome nor Safari.

iambot• 15 years ago

Seriously, why do you need so many rights to my twitter account!!? i don't think that's necessary...

Also: got a 500 error on signup (via email/password)

Kudos2• 15 years ago

You let people run shell scripts on deployment, is this why your service is down? Seems reminiscent of phpfog's mistake of running post-deploy scripts for users as root.

rmoriz• 15 years ago

How do you separate each customer's application inside your cloud stack?

athst• 15 years ago

Very cool, how does it work with custom domains? Couldn't find anything on the site about that.

paufernandez• 15 years ago

I will just repeat it: your prices are too low.

mtogo• 15 years ago

After approving the self-signed cert, i just see a blank page. I'll check back later, this sounds interesting.

EDIT: I Haven't tried it yet, but it looks pretty awesome if it works as advertised.

keikubo12• 15 years ago

Service demo video is available at http://youtu.be/qm15rItQ-w0

Fluxflex: GitHub integrated cloud hosting, starting at $1/month

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