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Originally Posted by Shoe Lace
https://www.appfog.com and https://www.dotcloud.com are in the same space as heroku.
I don't think there's a ton of competition because the problem hasn't reached critical mass and is partly solved with a little elbow grease. Most people are content with using PHP/mysql on a $5/month shared server where that problem is absolutely solved.
For people who want to use something else on their own server, there's plenty of environment management tools out there with thousands of modules for almost anything you can think of. You just have to assemble the config yourself.
The prices for dotCloud are insane. I only tested 2G Ram and 64MB of PostgreSQL and its already at $289.44. Who pays this?
I recall trying to use AppFog way back when. The prices aren't too bad here. Didn't they originally have a free instance with retarted specs followed by $100/month? Not sure why I stopped using them, but I kind of recall the UI being irritating.
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Originally Posted by MrWooster
http://www.cloudflare.com/
Its free (for what you are looking for) and it will cache everything for you (and optionally give you a whole load of extra options like on the fly minification and gzipping). IMO cloudflare is one of the most underrated companies out there.
You just point your DNS records at them, and they do all the rest for you. It will automatically work out which pages are static and which are not and distribute the cached pages over a worldwide CDN.
Thanks. I'll check this out. Is it really an improvement to do on-the-fly gzip though? I would think it would be better to have it zipped already on the local machine.
Minification is a meh issue for me. I can do that in 2 seconds and have it done anyways. I'm reading more on it and I'm still a bit confused. Are they saying that the resources are in the CDN or are they saying that the local resources are routed through the CDN?
I'll definitely give it a shot. I don't want to use it on the blog site though. I'm pretty confident I can get most of it sped up with a few optimizations, it doesn't hurt to learn a bit about it, and I don't think 140mb is that shabby. Certainly better than waiting 30 seconds for a dyno to spin up.