Just a heads up in the e-mail that I received from them:<p>"Our database was compromised and all of our data was maliciously deleted. (We are still working with our CouchDB provider to restore this data and help with forensics to hand over to the FBI.)"<p>Not a good start.
I have a project at work that uses CouchDB & node.js, but it isn't hosted. I have Cloudant, CouchOne & no.de accounts, but haven't had enough free time to finish a side project to put them to good use.<p>Node & couch together are a pretty nice combo though, it's just JSON & JavaScript all the way. There is no context switching between programming languages like what is typical using Ruby or whatever for your application layer.<p>Been shoveling lots of ice & snow in my spare time instead :(
Nodester isn't a new hosting service, it is Nodefu just rebranded. This was submitted to HN eighteen days ago [0] and there was some confusion over the name being similar to another node.js hosting service provider. I am glad that there is no confusion anymore. You should check out Nodejitsu [1] who also open sources most if not all their code and have been a vital part of the node.js community for a long time now.<p>[0]: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2116319" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2116319</a><p>[1]: <a href="http://nodejitsu.com" rel="nofollow">http://nodejitsu.com</a>
Has anyone actually tried this, or something similar? A hosted node.js combined with a hosted CouchDB? Does it work well? Is it actually easy to program? Does it perform well?
Honest question: What is the point of all these specialized hosting sites? At least some are succeeding so I assume there is some value being delivered to some customers, but I am curious what that is. From where I sit it seems like Node.js, Rails, etc are just apps on an OS and while there may some tuning opportunities it's not like the difference between a specialized Node.js/Rails/etc optimizer is going to get ten times the performance of a general purpose skilled optimizer out of a stack. (I assume that if you're building a business on one of these stacks that we can safely assume that we're not talking the totally unoptimized case.)<p>I explain my assumptions so you can better answer my question; as I say, I am assuming there's a positive answer, I just don't know what it is.
Nodester is a super cool project, because it is a node.js hosting platform that is fully open source. I am preparing a similar node.js and couchdb hosting site (<a href="http://cloudno.de" rel="nofollow">http://cloudno.de</a>) based on the work of Chris and Dan. I guess there are some more coming and the long wait for a coupon/invite will be soon over.