When comparing Modulus vs Amazon Web Services, the Slant community recommends Amazon Web Services for most people. In the question“What are the best hosting services for Node.js apps?” Amazon Web Services is ranked 3rd while Modulus is ranked 6th.
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Pros
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.
Pro Breadth of Services
Pro Excellent Documentation and Support
Pro Most Mature Service Options
No other Cloud provide offers such a wide variety of Compute, Database and other options.
Cons
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.