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Heroku
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Easy to start with
Getting started with Heroku is very easy. It's a very straightforward procedure and a beginner can set up their first app in two minutes. Often it's just a matter of a couple of git commands and it's all set up and running. The official Heroku docmentation also helps a lot.
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Constrained by addons
If you want to fully customize your production environment, then Heroku can be seriously constraining. Installing libraries or services can not be done unless there is already a Heroku plugin for it.
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Excellent error logs
When your deploy fails you see a legitimate error log. Many of the other PaaS give you nondescript messages and debugging is a pain. Debugging Heroku wins by comparison.
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Further deployments are slow
While starting with Heroku is fast and easy, and the first few deployments are actually very fast, larger applications tend to have slower deployments. It takes some time for the dynos to restart and while they are restarting the application is completely offline. Which means that you can lose precious seconds of application time.
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Add-ons let you easily add features and technologies
Heroku has a vast list of plugins and services that can be added to an instance. These plugins cover things from databases to email systems. This remove the task of having to install services and setting them up manually. Heroku does it all for you.
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Really expensive
Heroku starts getting really expensive once you leave that free tier. It's not just the bare Heroku service that is costly, the addons as well are very pricey.
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Simple scaling
Heroku instances can easily be scaled up or down by increasing or decreasing the number of available dynos for that instance. This can be done through the CLI or through Heroku's web UI.
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Dedicated build servers
Heroku has dedicated servers for building app dependencies, to ensure that you won't have issues like "out of memory" errors when deploying your app.
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Mature
Heroku is one of the oldest PaaS providers. The fact that it's been around for such a long time means that it had a lot of time to mature over the years. There's also a massive number of articles, guides and tutorials on Heroku out there for beginners and advanced users.
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Free option
Heroku offers a free tier which contains a single dyno instance. It offers 512MB of memory and 100MB swap space.
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PythonAnywhere
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Easy setup
It's literally a matter of minutes to get a Python-backed website up and running.
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Python-only on the server side
Obviously you can put JavaScript in your web pages and so on, but you can't use Rails or Node.
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Easy scaling
You pay for a number of "Workers" for your web app (to handle requests), or CPU seconds for code that you run outside a web app, and you can get more workers or CPU seconds by upgrading your plan any time.
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No WebSocket support
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Excellent customer service
Really fast turnaround, friendly.
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Free option
You can run a website at USERNAME.pythonanywhere.com for free, and it's good enough for a light-traffic website -- it runs 24/7. You get a free MySQL or SQLite database too.
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Flexible payments
You can pay monthly and cancel any time, or pay for a year up front to get a discount.
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Not too expensive
A basic site with no custom domain is free. $5 a month will afford the user enough power for a typical 100,000 hit a day website.
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DigitalOcean
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Beginner-friendly
DigitalOcean has a control panel that's intuitive and easy to use, new servers (Droplets) can be spun up in under a minute and they offer stock "apps" (LAMP, RoR, Wordpress) that can be deployed instantly. There's also an extensive documentation for people new to VPS.
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No DDoS protection
When Digital Ocean detects what they think may be a DoS attack, they will cut traffic to the droplet to avoid performance drops to neighbors etc. This means if your droplet comes under attack, or appears to be under attack, it will be disconnected from the network, effectively down.
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Pay-as-you-go with multiple payment options
Billing is done per hour. Each month has a 672 hour (28-day) billing cap with server runtime past that point being free of charge. DigitalOcean accepts payments via Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and PayPal.
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Limited payment options
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Competetive starter-level pricing
With pricing that starts at $5/month. It's a pretty cheap VPS provider.
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Setup is not as fast as advertised
A person who wants to set this up, set that up, configure this and so forth - and who has minimal time pressures would be okay. But the time it takes to be set up can be crucial for people who want to get up and running as fast as possible.
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Extensive Tutorials/Guides
People can often find tutorials needed provided by DigitalOcean.
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Don't accept Bitcoin yet
Even though it's one of the most voted suggestions on their customer feedback website, DigitalOcean does not accept any crypto-currency payment methods.
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Good API
DigitalOcean has an API for creating and destroying droplets and replicating droplet control panel functionality. The API is RESTful, uses oAuth, supports IPv6 and comes with an extensive documentation.
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Limited Locations, compared to others
I know with many applications, locations are not always super important. However there are several good reason to have certain locations. Only having East Coast and West Coast happens to be an issue for us and a few of our partners.
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(New) Block Storage Volumes
You can now attach dynamic distributed (assuming SAN) storage to a droplet. Multiple droplets cannot attach to the same volume. The storage is very affordable and there are easy to follow how-to guides. (as of writing, only in certain datacenters)
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Terrible support
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Flexible backup mechanism
Automatic backups can be made for 20% of the droplet price and an unlimited amount of snapshots at $0.02 per GB of storage can be made manually.
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Great customer support
Quick and knowledgeable customer service, extensive documentation and helpful community.
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IPv6:
Yes
Server locations:
New York (3); Amsterdam (2); San Francisco (2); Singapore; London; Frankfurt; Toronto; Bangalore
ISOs:
Ubuntu; Fedora; Debian; CentOS; CoreOS; FreeBSD
Virtualization:
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F(x) Data Cloud
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Option for hosting the database service on the cloud server.
If you wanna host your database on the cloud server, you can have both the option as Database as a Service (Pre-installed and managed database) or Infrastructure as a Service (If you want to have root access and manually want to install the database).
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No GPU provided
GPU is not provided.
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High uptime
All the cloud services are with 99.95% uptime.
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Cost-friendly
F(x) Data Cloud provides public cloud server at a cheap price. The basic plan starts at $1.99/month.
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Great Support
Typically answers in minute.
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Provides high configurations
They provide 32 vCPU, 128 GB RAM, 2000 GB SSD, 9 TB network. For large businesses, high configurations are required.
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Server locations:
United States
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Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Windows
Virtualization:
KVM
Cloud Storage:
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Microsoft Azure Functions
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No server maintenance
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Chains you to a vendor
When developing anything, it's best to be vendor independent. Tightly coupling your design to a vendor is just asking for trouble.
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Deploy from Visual Studio
You can deploy apps directly from Visual Studio.
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Supports various languages
JavaScript, C#, F#, Python, PHP, Bash, Batch, and PowerShell
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Linode
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Excellent support
Linode's support is amazing. Tickets are usually answered within minutes, if there's a network or hardware issue it's usually resolved before anyone even notices.
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Backups have become unreliable
I've been a Linode customer for 10+ years, but over the past 3+ years their backups have become unreliable, which is unacceptable for a paid extra to the service. I've had multiple issues with backups failing, and restoring from a backup has caused my VPS to fail to deliver website content for reasons neither I nor Linode support could figure out. In the end, I just had to rebuild the server from scratch with a personal backup.
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Gives you the chance to fix problems without relying on support
If you mess things up in your Linode instance, for example with the filesystem or boot configuration, Linode allows you to run a recovery ISO so you can try and fix things yourself without relying on Linode's support team.
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Not really suitable if you have a very heavy CPU application
They'll cap your usage if you go above 80% for a sustained period - even on very large expensive boxes (if you use Load Balancers offered, this can be mitigated).
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Speed
Their VPSs are very fast.
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For more advanced users
Can be an issue for those not used to setting up their own server. Managed services are really expensive if help is needed.
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Allows you to do things that usually can only be done if you have access to the hardware
Linode allows you to create memory partitions and copy or move them around. Furthermore, it even lets you reboot your instance with smaller RAM in order to simulate how your application would act if your Linode instance gets downgraded.
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No self-help migrating option
If you want to migrate to another hosting solution from Linode, you can't do it by yourself. You have to open a support ticket.
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Comprehensive, well documented API
The API gives access to nodes, nodebalancers, stackscripts, DNS, and accounts.
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Treats customer as a liability
Many malpractices in the name of machine abuse. Their machines get abused with just 10% steady cpu utilization.
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Provides SDKs for several languages
SDKs are available for Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Java, and Node.js.
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Stack scripts
Stack scripts gives you the chance to build a completely custom Linode stack with multiple custom features and options all run automatically and set up.
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New Cloud Beta user interface
A new user interface is under development which will still keep the same level of power Linode offers but with a cleaner interface. Showing forward thinking and continued improvement.
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GPU:
Yes
IPv6:
Yes
Server locations:
London; Frankfurt; Fremont; Newark; Atlanta; Dallas; Tokyo; Singapore; Mumbai; Toronto; Sydney
ISOs:
Arch; CentOS; Debian; Fedora; Gentoo; openSUSE; Slackware; Ubuntu
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RamNode
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Cheap
Ramnode is a very cheap VPS provider. With its cheapest plan being only $15/yr for 128MB of RAM. Which is not much but for a small website not expecting a lot of traffic is pretty good. Plus, not many other VPS providers offer this kind of option. There is CPanel shared hosting for $4/mo and a $10 VPS will get you twice the resources as most competitors.
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Doesn't give you many advanced functionalities
Compared to other VPS providers, the Admin interface for RamNode is rather limited. For example, scaling your instances up and down is not as advanced.
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Good performance
RamNode usually has some pretty good performance according to benchmarks. Of course, VPS benchmarks are not very reliable but RamNode consistently ranks pretty high in them.
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Support is responsive
Even on a Saturday night RamNode support responds to a ticket in less than 15 minutes.
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Server locations:
Los Angeles; New York; Atlanta; Seattle; Amsterdam
ISOs:
CentOS; CloudLinux; CoreOS; Debian; FreeBSD; OpenBSD; Fedora; openSUSE; Gentoo; Ubuntu; Arch; Alpine; NetBSD; Vyatta; MikroTik; GParted; System Rescue; Grml; Scientific; TurnKey; Elastix; Oracle; PBX; iPXE; NixOS; FreePBX; AsteriskNOW; Windows Server 2008 R2
Virtualization:
KVM; OpenVZ
Custom ISO:
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SLAppForge Sigma
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Nothing to install
Sigma is completely browser-based, so all you need is a web browser (which you already have).
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Only supports NodeJS at the moment
Serverless apps in Sigma are currently confined to NodeJS as the programming language (both v6.10 and v8.10), although more languages like Go and Python may be supported in the future.
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Free demo AWS accounts for tryouts
No AWS account? No problem. Just click 'Request Demo Account Information' and get hold of demo AWS account credentials to get started.
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Lack of support for non-listed AWS services
Since Sigma internally handles resource configurations and permissions, it is currently difficult to integrate with services that are not yet listed in the Supported Resources section of the IDE.
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You can get started with just a browser, AWS account and GitHub account
Sigma needs just an AWS account (for deploying your serverless app) and GitHub account (for saving your code and generated configurations). But even if you don't have either or both of them, you can still get started with a free demo account or one of the ready-made samples.
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Lack of customizability for power users
Since Sigma handles all resource creation, build and deployment configurations internally, it does not offer much customizability for power users - although this may change in the future.
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Ready-made samples - no GitHub account needed
Even if you don't have a GitHub account, or are still too skeptical to authorize Sigma to access your account, you can still deploy one from the range of ready-made samples right away without having to log in with GitHub.
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Just out of beta
Sigma is relatively new (came out of beta only very recently) so it may not be fully production-ready.
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Rich support for NodeJS, including the latest 8.10 on AWS
Sigma already fully supports NodeJS 8.10, introduced for Lambda functions by AWS very recently (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/node-js-8-10-runtime-now-available-in-aws-lambda/), in addition to the earlier 6.10.
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Near-zero configurations
Sigma fully automates the definition of entities, their associations (such as function triggers) and the related permissions (e.g. AWS IAM), so all you need to do is to drag them in and write your code.
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Define your infra on-the-go
With Sigma, you can define your entities - buckets, databases, queues, APIs, etc. - as and when you encounter them in your code (reusing the previously defined ones when necessary). This ensures a seamless development experience, without any jump-arounds among multiple dashboards, documentation pages and configuration files.
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Serverless by design
Sigma itself is based on serverless principles; everything runs in your web browser, and all services and application logic are deployed into your own serverless provider account (say AWS). There is no backend, and hence no outages.
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One-click build and deployment
Builds and deployments are fully automated in Sigma, using serverless technologies; just click a button, and everything is airborne within minutes.
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GitHub integration
Sigma seamlessly integrates with your GitHub account, so you can save and reload your projects from GitHub at any time. Sigma can also load public projects from any GitHub URL or profile, so sharing your latest adventure with your colleagues is just a matter of sharing your GitHub URL.
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Incremental deployments
With Sigma, you can stick to your familiar dev cycle (develop one feature, deploy it, streamline it, redeploy, move on to the next, and so on). Sigma will keep track of all changes and ensure that nothing gets left out, right up to the final deployment.
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Super-fast testing
Sigma recently introduced a testing feature which is way faster than the testing options offered by the native AWS Lambda console.
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'Try Now' with no registration
While the signup is just two hassle-free steps, Sigma also offers a demo mode where you can experience most of its features with zero overhead.
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Already integrates with a myriad of AWS services
Sigma already supports a wide range of serverless-friendly AWS services - including S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, and so on - with much more coming up in the near future.
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Microsoft Azure
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Supports running Windows Server
Most, if not all, of the major cloud PaaS providers offer a Linux variant to host your applications. Windows Azure, being a Microsoft product obviously, supports Windows in addition to Linux.
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Expensive
Even though in the context of Pay-as-you-go services, it's cost effective, but monthly pricing for these services are quite higher than competitors.
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Linux Instances
The Azure platform has been supporting Linux VMs for a while now and has Linux distributions readily available in the catalogue.
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Free Tier
Microsoft Azure offers a Free Tier option that allows you to spawn a BST-1 instance that has 750 free hours.
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dotCloud
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Adjust per-instance memory
Most other PaaS providers only allow for multiple, low-memory instances for horizontal scaling, but dotCloud also allows for vertical scaling and resource-heavy applications by adjusting per-instance memory availability.
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Poor database performance
When your databases have a very high write volume dotCloud starts having some serious problems keeping up with it. Performance drops completely and in the worst case scenario the database crashes and starts going down daily.
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Quick deployment
dotCloud is usually very fast when it comes to deploying your project. The CLI tool is very good at that and deploys your build almost as soon as you push it.
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Thorough Documentation
The documentation is very good an explains everything in-depth.
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Support for various types of databases
Supports Postgres, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, and MySQL. All of these can be used without any additional pricing, no need to pay for expensive addons.
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Google Cloud Functions
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Supports multiple languages
Cloud Functions, as of this writing, supports JavaScript, Python, Go and Java.
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Limited languages and dependencies
Only the set of languages explicitly supported by Cloud Functions can be used; for more flexibility, I would highly recommend Google's other serverless environment, namely Cloud Run.
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Supports multiple sources of events
Cloud Functions can be triggered from PubSub and from HTTP events, for example.
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Frictionless to create
There is an inline editor in Google Cloud for writing and submitting/deploying cloud functions, so while it is possible to store a Cloud function as code in a repository you can try and experiment without getting to that point.
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V2 Cloud
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Easy to use
It's fast enough and a user friendly solution to move your operations to a cloud-based computer. This is the company to work with.
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No GPU
If you are looking for a system that has GPU, this solution isn't recommended.
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The customer support services they offer are second to none
Basically, the system has an inbuilt chat window that you can use to interact with tech support and get instant assistance.
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Convox
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Can use Docker images and containers out of the box
Convox is built on Docker and deployments are made using Docker containers. Because of this, developers have a large number of existing Docker images to choose from with which they can customize their environment to suit their needs.
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Only supports AWS
Convox is a PaaS that can be installed and deployed on existing AWS instances. There are plans to support other cheaper alternatives in the future, but for now only AWS is supported.
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Only pay for the hosting
Since Convox itself is a free and open source software, you do not have to pay for using it. Developers only have to pay for the cloud hosting itself (in this case AWS instance) where Convox will be deployed.
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nuclio
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Fast
Most of Nuclio is written in Go.
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Multiple platforms
Supports Docker, Google Container Engine, Azure Container Service and Kubernetes.
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Multiple languages
Examples available for Go, Python, NodeJS, .NET Core and Java.
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Joyent Triton
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High Performance
By using Zones as a container technology software can run at native speeds without hardware emulation.
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Open Source
All software used to run the cloud is also opensource and can be deployed as a private cloud.
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Native Docker hosting
With LX-Zones docker containers can run securely on hardware.
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Cloud Run
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Flexible
The system supports arbitrary code and dependencies, since it is based in containers rather than a particular programming language. This makes it far more flexible than most of the other options which require a specific language.
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Portable
The code doesn't need to make any Google-specific assumptions and can be easily deployed in other kinds of environments and frameworks.
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Secure
Cloud Run includes Identity & Access Management (IAM) integration, so that it is possible to limit access to specific microservices rather than granting wide access.
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Cost effective
Google's pricing for Cloud Run involves only charging when the service is in use, with the ability for the service to scale-down-to-zero, making it economical to use Cloud Run with microservices and websites that receive relatively low or spiky traffic.
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pCloud
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No file size limits
Allows you to store your HD videos, FLAC music files, and large documents.
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Not a well known company
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Lifetime options for storage space
Allows you to subscribe for life instead of paying every month/year.
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Software develoment has bad QA
The fact the mapping issue even exists is a token of bad QA in software development.
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Desktop app doesn't take space on hard disk
Computers see it as a network drive.
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Adds drivemapping without asking
The desktop app adds a P: drivemapping without asking for confirmation. Dangerous (not to say totally irresponsible) in case you already have a drive mapped.
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Other users can upload files to your storage
Have others upload files directly to your account from any browser using "Upload links".
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Low bandwith
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Cross-platform
Backup and use your files from any device with Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, or iOS.
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Very reliable
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No synchronization speed limits
Sync files as fast as your internet plan allows you to.
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Linux client
Support for all file systems and distributions.
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Rewind option for FREE
Rewind option is possible for free up to 15 days back in time, 30 days back with Premium plans and you can pay for a whole year of file versioning only 39 EUR!
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Easy Sharing
A lot of sharing options between accounts and other non-pCloud-users.
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Branding of Download links
Cool branding feature possible for the videos and pictures :)
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Free 10gb of storage
Higher than most of the other cloud services except Mega.
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2tb storage and 2tb bandwidth
Unlike all the other clouds this makes it great for sharing large files. To lots of people.
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Free bandwidth with ads
This is nice if you don't care about what is people see on the page when you share the file and you have large files to send.
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WebDAV access
Files can be accessed using WebDAV (although there is a limitation at the moment that prevents access via WebDAV if two-factor authentication is set up.. hopefully to be resolved in the near future).
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac, Linux
Mobile App:
Yes
Offline access:
Yes
Versioning:
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AWS Cloud 9
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Lacks subdomain options
Building an app that needs subdomains is impossible.
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Full terminal access
Cloud9 gives full terminal access to home directory. In their hosted Linux Ubuntu environment it has sudo powers. No UNIX commands have been blocked - npm, ifconfig, chmod, chown, tar, etc work. All commands can be accessed and any package can be installed. And if the terminal is used when using Remote SSH feature it connects directly to the server and runs the commands on that server.
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Part of Amazon Web Services
While the c9.io site is still up and running, Cloud9 is exclusive for AWS Customers only, and you pay the AWS Compute pricing when you use Cloud9.
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Capable editor
Cloud9 uses their own editor called ACE. Besides the basics, it covers most important advanced code editor features such as code folding, converting cases, auto-completion, code analysis and refactoring, regex search and offers easy access to relevant documentation. It also gives access to the CLI, has support for Vim and Emacs keybindings, includes multiple cursors and zen coding mode that removes all distractions and allows focusing on code.
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Free plan asks for credit card details
Free plan requires you to provide a credit card due to the nature of Cloud 9's "Free Workspaces" to be relatively abused. According to the developers, this is the only way to prevent such.
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Great documentation
Cloud9 has extensive, well-organized documentation at docs.c9.io.
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Lacks a built-in Java builder and runner
While there is no built-in Java builder or runner currently, C9 has provided instructions on how to set them up. Instructions can be found here.
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Enables real-time online collaboration
An important feature of Cloud9 is the real-time collaboration ability. It allows pairing programs or perform code reviews really easily as well as simultaneously text chat.
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Does not accept New Registrants on c9.io Anymore
As being acquired by Amazon Web Services as part of AWS Cloud9, the c9.io service won't accept new sign ups.
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Integrates with AWS
Prior to being part of the AWS Toolchain, AWS integrates deeply with CodeStar and AWS Lambda, allowing you to build serverless architechtures.
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Terminal will not work on Windows (Cloud9 SDK)
The terminal package does not work on the Cloud 9 SDK in Windows because it cannot find an appropriate unix shell. This might be a recurring bug undergoing fixes.
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Offline editing
By installing and running a client application that syncs the local file system and cloud storage Cloud9 can be run locally. Great alternative for situations when the Internet connection is unreliable.
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Can be hosted on own server
Since Cloud9 is an open source project with source code available on GitHub, it can be run as a self-hosted solution on own hardware and behind a firewall.
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Git & Mercurial support
Git and hg commands can be run in the command-line, the same way as in a local terminal. There are also built-in add-on services for GitHub, BitBucket and GitLab.
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Runs any language
The runner has built-in functionality fo Apache, Node, Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Go, CoffeeScript, Julia, Mocha and Shell script, but any other language can be used by creating a runner for it.
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Desktop application is available
Prior to the Cloud9 core source code being released, an Alpha version of a desktop version can be built from the source which is based from NW.js. Instructions can be found here.
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SSH Workspace
Allows you to connect directly to your external server via SSH. Modifying files directly on your server using a cloud based editor allows you to have the portability of the a cloud based workspace with the control of your own server (including complete DNS control).
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Debugging with breakpoints for NodeJS server side JavaScript
Breakpoints allow specifying a stopping points in the execution of the application. When these breakpoints are hit, the application will stop executing and give the ability to examine data such as local variables, run commands and control the execution flow of the application.
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Ability to clone multiple repos in one project
Cloud9 provides one free private workspace. However, I can host multiple projects there by cloning as many repositories into the root project directory, thanks to the full access terminal.
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Package manager
Similar to package managers for the desktop, Cloud9 also includes their own package manager, c9pm, which allows adding new software from a list of available utilities. Apt-get can be used in the project's workspace terminal to install/update/upgrade software. Composer, Bower or any other utilities of choice can be installed to manage dependencies and packages.
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Provides with a simple way to deploy apps
Cloud9 allows quickly deploying apps via CLI. There are instructions on how to deploy to Azure, CloudFoundry, OpenShift, NodeJitsu, Modulus and Heroku. For example, all hosted environments have Heroku's toolbelt installed by default so all heroku commands are available from the get-go.
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Provides with own runtime environment
Cloud9 can connect to a dedicated VM to provide a powerful Ubuntu runtime environment in the cloud using Docker. Apps can be either run from the run panel where a selection of runners is provided or from a terminal.
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Support for most databases
In addition to launching a server to run code, Cloud9 will also host a database to develop against. Support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and SQLite.
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Browser testing support
Cloud9 integrates with Sauce Labs a browser testing suite that allows previewing the app in any desktop or mobile browser.
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Provides with a simple way to deploy apps
Cloud9 allows quickly deploying apps via CLI. There are instructions on how to deploy to Azure, CloudFoundry, OpenShift, NodeJitsu, Modulus and Heroku. For example, all hosted environments have Heroku's toolbelt installed by default so all heroku commands are available from the get-go.
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Open source
Back4app is an open source BAAS and Backend generator.
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Uses MongoDB for the backend, which is not considered very safe by many
Back4App uses MongoDB as the database where data is stored. Mongo has been known to have issues with data corruption and data loss.
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Smooth migration from Parse
Back4App offers a smooth migration for all former Parse users who wish to migrate their data now that Parse has announced that it will stop soon.
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Horrible support
I opened several tickets, but I didn't got ANY response.
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Cheap
The cheapest plan VPS SSD 1 is at $3.49 /month with : OpenStack KVM 1 vCore 2.4 GHz 2 GB RAM 10 GB SSD Local RAID 10
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Difficult, awkward to manage your server's resources
They only provide an upgrade path for CPU, RAM, disk. If you wish to downgrade later, you can't, you must rebuild your server from scratch.
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Advanced DDoS protection
DDoS protection available on most plans. And advanced game server DDoS protection available as well.
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