AppFog Pricing Released

I would be very interested to know how their entry level plan is free and yet generous.<p>I want it to be true, I want the numbers to work for them. I have a small site that does 70GB/month and this would somehow beat shared hosting (dreamhost in my case) at only $3/month for the extra 20GB. Yet this is even more generous than their phpfog offering.<p>One thing I did not notice was any mention of disk usage. Either way I'll at least test them. I've been wanting to try out PaaS for a while.

This could be quite a game changer. Other than the generous free allowance, the other big difference compared to Heroku is that it allows you to select the infrastructure you launch on, including three different global regions for AWS (Singapore, Ireland, Virginia).<p>By providing an alternative for Heroku's high prices and the "region-lock" (latency is always a big issue for potential customers), AppFog seems set to be a strong competitor. More competitors in these spaces are always welcome! =]

After signing up I got this text:<p><pre><code> Unlimited apps within 2GB RAM 10 each with 100 MB limit </code></pre> So it seems that each app can only use 100MB. It could be an example of course, but in that case they should make it more clear

Doesn't work.<p>Created a new App &#38; yet that newly created app doesn't exist in dashboard. Tried creating app Multiple times, but same result. Screenshots: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/Z8Krw.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/Z8Krw.png</a> <a href="http://i.imgur.com/wocw7.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/wocw7.png</a><p>I would wish them luck!

Interesting, at amazon's regular prices that works out to about $12/month in services they are giving away (assuming 3 year reserved servers), but they'd have to cram 34 clients on to a server. But now you're splitting 26 EC2 compute units 34 ways ... thats less processor power then a Micro.

Free plan is too good to be true, it reminded me of Google Apps, their free plan started with unlimited users and they ended up with only 10. let's see how long they can afford this generosity,

I once tried to setup Symfony2 framework in PHPFog which is sister concern of AppFog. It did not went nicely. As Symfony2 generates classes in cache folder adding permission to that folder was tricky. Also have to clear the cache to push new changes. Dotcloud is better on this case. It gives shell access to both web server and db server.

After migrating a Java application that ran on EC2 to AppFog over the weekend, I wouldn't recommend running mission-critical apps on their infrastructure yet. A few things that I ran into<p>- After EC2 East was slow like molasses, I switched over to EC2 EU which was still speedy<p>- That caused their CLI tool to fall on its nose when trying to tunnel to the database (right now the bridge always gets installed in EC2 East). Fixed with a simple patch in the Ruby source<p>- Looks like the backend connector in nginx won't connect to your app if you have Basic-Auth on your root index<p>- Later MySQL became unavailable with "Host '10.0.47.186' is blocked because of many connection errors; unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts'". No connection limiter between different apps?<p>I think AppFog is offering a great value should they be able to iron out all the kinks. I'm crossing my fingers that this will happen quickly.

This is the one of the cheapest PAAS I've ever seen. How about the performance?

Interestingly, database sizes seem to be lesser than RAM sizes in all the plans.<p>Isn't that the exact opposite of what is needed in the real world?

Custom domains are free too.. I am pleasantly suprised

What about reliability. A multi-az paas would dominate heroku at any price.<p>Anyone know about reliability?

"Java, .Net, Ruby, Node, Python, PHP, etc."<p>Does that "etc" include Clojure and Scala?

When choosing Rackspace + Ruby Sinatra I received this result: Sending...<p>Registering App Details...<p>Validating<p>Uploading App<p>500<p>Things are not that 500 red number seems like an error code to me which doesn't provide me with much information.

Can someone explain the concept or value of multiple instances on this? If an app is getting hit pretty hard can you just turn on another instance, albeit with less ram? Do you have to write your code in such a way to support it being run on multiple instances? Are there certain types of apps that are CPU intensive and RAM light, making the many instance/not much ram trade off a good idea?

I couldn't totally understand pricing model. You can get only twice of free plan when you agree to pay 100$ a month. Hetzner still seems logical, if you have enough passion to learn little bit server administration. <a href="http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex5" rel="nofollow">http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex5</a>

No integrated git-push deploy (I know you can use a gem with an extra instance to do that, but still). No SSH into your app. No custom app. Extra runtimes are there, but old (Erlang, for example), and no idea how to use them.<p>Other than those, it's a very good PaaS.

Am I reading this right? I can start 16 instances of my app (with 128MB RAM each)? For Free?

50 GB data transfer limit ($0.15/GB for additional resources)<p>This looks like a potential moneymaker.

No where on this page does it REALLY explain what this product actually does. Marketing/copy fail. Even the about page you have to click around to find is more about their funding than what I gain from this product.

Been using a lot of Dart lately, so I'm wondering if I could get a Dart VM running on AppFog. Since it's based on Java, there shouldn't be a problem, right?

No Perl support. But, it looks like it's a Cloud Foundry thing:<p><a href="http://cloudfoundry.org/search?q=perl" rel="nofollow">http://cloudfoundry.org/search?q=perl</a>

Does not seem to support SSL, which might be a bit of a dealbreaker for many.

Yay. lets begin the exodus (from other service provider free plan)!

So how do you handle SSL for custom domain names?