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Add to SafariWhen comparing AppFog vs Modulus, the Slant community recommends AppFog for most people. In the question“What are the best hosting services for Node.js apps?” AppFog is ranked 4th while Modulus is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose AppFog is:
Limits are based on total memory allocation, you can allocate as much RAM as you want for each instance. Even the pricing is based on the total amount of RAM allocated, $0.04/GB.
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Pros
Pro Allows multiple app instances
Limits are based on total memory allocation, you can allocate as much RAM as you want for each instance. Even the pricing is based on the total amount of RAM allocated, $0.04/GB.
Pro 24/7 live chat support
While it's true that AppFog may be relatively new and the online support is not very extensive, they offer 24/7 professional live chat support for any questions or problems you may have.
Pro Simple command-line deployment tool
AppFog has a simple command line utility to recursively push a directory to production
Pro Supports multiple data centers worldwide
AWS US, Europe, Asia, Rackspace, HP, Azure, and even Private Clouds.
Pro Great support
There are a number of ways available to contact their support team (email, twitter, IRC and even through phone). They usually respond very fast even to emails and the responses are very friendly and helpful.
Pro Great support for Meteor
Modulus has a tool called demeteorizer which takes a standard Meteor application and turns it into a regular Node application so that it can run on Modulus.
Cons
Con Slow deployment
The deployment process with AppFog is generally nice and easy because of its CLI. Unofrtunately the only downside of that process is the fact that it takes too long. A deployment to AppFog genereally takes up to 40 seconds, which should be fine if you are deploying once a week, but when you deploy every hour it starts bothering you too much.
Con Slow deployment process
The deployment process in Modulus can be slow depending on the size of the project. On every deploy the whole application is bundled (except node_modules and deployed to Modulus. Since it doesn't use something like git it has to upload every file on each deploy instead of "diffing" them.
