Im really not sure about the pricing model. Here are a couple of points:<p>There are tons of people looking for $5 vps that have like 500mb on ram. Your pricing structure will be like a magnet for those type of people. I dont think may of those people will upgrade to a $100 a month plan though.<p>As with the point above, you are relying to heavily on the people who have bought into the system at the free plan and now have to migrate. If I were to go onto one of the paid plans I would feel bad knowing most of the money im spending is going to provide a free service tier.<p>50Gb data transfer limit 0_0. Its 2012, bandwidth is dirt cheap and 50GB really is not that much. Especially if the person is paying $100+ per month. If someone is using more than 2GB of ram they are most likely using more than 50GB of incoming/outgoing data.<p>Edit: I signed up to test it out and while it says unlimited services (free plan) once you signup it limits you to 10.<p>Edit2: Turns out you need to have some ruby knowledge to get started (even if they offer a ton of languages). Since I dont I will have to postpone playing with it till the weekend where I can dedicate some time to playing with ruby.
I'm seeing a lot of comments talking about "just get a {VPS, dedicate box, Amazon, etc...}". I think people are missing the point. AppFog is trying to take all the "hard" work out of SysOps. Think Chef on crack, you are paying for their pre-configured infrastructure from the top down.<p>Their idea is provide a powerful, scaleable platform quickly and easily. Their mentality is called NoOps (<a href="http://blog.appfog.com/what-is-noops-anyhow/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.appfog.com/what-is-noops-anyhow/</a>). It's a cheesy marketing term, and pissed a lot of people off, but it's pretty spot on for what their service offers.
<a href="https://console.appfog.com/pricing" rel="nofollow">https://console.appfog.com/pricing</a><p>2GB RAM FREE | 4GB RAM $100/month | 16GB RAM $380/month | 32GB RAM $720/month | More if you contact AppFog<p>Scaling your app is free, choosing multiple infrastructures is free, custom domains are free, fastest available servers in the infrastructures
<i>AppFog's service extends across different infrastructure providers</i><p>Dropping into the IaaS world for a minute, is this as common as it seems me to be?<p>Personally, I run servers over number of cloud providers, and then have a few VPSs around too, plus some servers at home, and lots of people I know are the same.<p>Is this a common thing people do?<p>I've been thinking about doing a dashboard type app to display/manage servers across providers.<p>What tools are people using at the moment for this kind of thing?<p>(I'm actually running a very short survey on this at the moment. I'd love it if people would do it - happy to share the results here: <a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LDNZFG3" rel="nofollow">http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LDNZFG3</a>)
"Page Could Not Be Loaded<p>We're very sorry, but the page could not be loaded properly. This should be fixed very soon, and we apologize for any inconvenience.<p>Debug Info:<p>Status: 503
Response: Service Unavailable
XID: 1889032339<p>AppFog"<p>Uhh, scaling issues?
Just curious - How is this different than buying a server from Amazon, and sticking Ruby (or whatever it is that I need) on it and using it? Does the incremental value provided by Appfog lies in the fact it abstracts this get-meself-a-server-from-amazon part? Genuinely curious and hence asking.
I think AppFog needs to figure out their branding, with regards to how AppFog and PHPfog are perceived.<p>Is AppFog the parent company and PHPfog is a product of that company? Are they two separate brands/companies?<p>We're using PHPfog for our MVP of matchist (matchist.com). Does the new AppFog free plan apply to PHPfog too? I sure hope so, otherwise we just got screwed by this.<p>I think they need to be a bit more clear about this.
Does this give me one VPS that I can resize up to 2GB without paying for?<p>Can I launch multiple VPSs that are up to 2GB?<p>If you are trying to say its not a VPS, I don't believe you. I bet it is at least built on some kind of virtualization. What is it exactly?
I tried phpfog free for a while, I had very basic codeigniter setup and noticed the mysql queries where much slower than a regular shared hosting. I guess the free account works as a dashboard demo?, not sure.
They claim to support .NET. But after sign up and creating an app in "Step 1: Choose an application" i can not select any .NET "Application".<p>So their .NET Support claim is essentially a lie ?