Meteor Galaxy, a cloud platform for Meteor applications

This is a bummer for me. My meteor apps are large enough to not want to host on free `meteor deploy`, but small enough to not warrant a $500&#x2F;month plan.<p>Where&#x27;s the $40&#x2F;month plan? The $100&#x2F;month?<p>Also the fact that it doesn&#x27;t come with the database is off putting. I was under the impression all these months that Galaxy would be a one-stop-shop for Meteor hosting.<p>Bummer, total bummer. I hope they come out with more middle ground pricing.

It looks like they are purposefully ceding the small-fry market to Modulus[1] and maybe even Digital Ocean[2]. Part of what you&#x27;re buying here is access to the Meteor team and best practices at scale. From what I&#x27;ve heard that&#x27;s something it&#x27;s harder to get from Modulus.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;modulus.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;modulus.io&#x2F;</a><p>[2] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digitalocean.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;how-to-deploy-a-meteor-js-application-on-ubuntu-14-04-with-nginx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digitalocean.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;how-to-depl...</a><p>edit: spelling

Based on the press release, I was expecting a Heroku like full stack service. Was surprised to learn you need to setup the DB from FAQ.<p>&gt; Does Galaxy include a database?<p>&gt; Galaxy does not provide the database layer. You can run your own MongoDB server inside AWS, or create a database through any number of MongoDB hosting providers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meteor.com&#x2F;why-meteor&#x2F;galaxy-faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meteor.com&#x2F;why-meteor&#x2F;galaxy-faq</a>

I can&#x27;t decide what to think about this pricing. Would a company pay $6k a year to almost not worry about hosting &#x2F; ops? Actually, yeah, probably. Still seems like it&#x27;s missing a lower tier though.

On a slightly unrelated note:<p>Would it be possible to make a webapp like Meteor in Clojure pretty easily, using CSP go-style channels ang go-threads.<p>I imagine a function would &quot;broadcast&quot; or &quot;listen to&quot; websocket connections. If the app uses channels for communicating between different go-blocks, server&#x2F;client contact could use an identical interface. Sending things server-side would be no different than sending things client-side.<p>Could also be a simple 2-function library.

You missed out on calling this meteor belt.

It works only in the AWS us-east cloud, what about Eu?

404 @ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meteor.com&#x2F;why-meter&#x2F;pricing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meteor.com&#x2F;why-meter&#x2F;pricing</a> from the article

I want to learn more about Galaxy&#x27;s security hygiene. I also want to learn more about what reasonable steps Galaxy is taking right now to ensure our data is safe after we `meteor deploy`.<p>Are they compliant with any security accountability programs like FEDRAMP&#x2F;FISMA, ISO 27002, PCI-DSS and HIPAA?

Why on earth is it so expensive? Is meteor so resource hungry?