When comparing IBM Cloud vs Modulus, the Slant community recommends Modulus for most people. In the question“What are the best hosting services for Node.js apps?” Modulus is ranked 6th while IBM Cloud is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Modulus is:
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.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Free tier
512MB RAM for up to 4 different hosted apps.
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 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.