When comparing Hostman vs dotCloud, the Slant community recommends dotCloud for most people. In the question“What are the best hosting services for Node.js apps?” dotCloud is ranked 5th while Hostman is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose dotCloud is:
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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Pros
Pro Has a permanent storage, so no need to join additional forces with AWS or other storage services
Pro Has a built in CI/CD tool that is very easy to set up
Pro 22 languages and frameworks require no additional configuration (not even the config-files)
Pro Has CDN and is free for Front-end apps
Pro Gives a free SSL certificate to all users and websites
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro Thorough Documentation
The documentation is very good an explains everything in-depth.
Pro 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.
Cons
Con Has no support for 3rd party extensions
Con SQL supported readily are MySQL, MongoDB and PostgreSQL
Con 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.