hi,
I find dotcloud.com very interesting - it may not be open source, but
supports many open source stacks.
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> I find dotcloud.com very interesting - it may not be open source, but
> supports many open source stacks.
Its an interesting system. I wonder how they protect their system from
malicious users, considering they provide a service to run background
processes.
http://docs.dotcloud.com/guides/
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:34 AM, 0 <0...@0throot.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I find dotcloud.com very interesting - it may not be open source, but
> > supports many open source stacks.
>
> Its an interesting system. I wonder how they protect their system from
> malicious users, considering they provide
On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 18:24 +0530, Suraj Kumar wrote:
> dotcloud is a VPS:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server and
> due to its inherently 'compartmentalized' nature it allows a hosting
> service provider to divide a physical server into logical spaces.
it is not a VPS.
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:03 AM, kenneth gonsalves
wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 18:24 +0530, Suraj Kumar wrote:
> > dotcloud is a VPS:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server and
> > due to its inherently 'compartmentalized' nature it allows a hosting
> > service provider to divi
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Suraj Kumar wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:03 AM, kenneth gonsalves > wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 18:24 +0530, Suraj Kumar wrote:
>> > dotcloud is a VPS:
>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server and
>> > due to its inherently 'compa
>
> Never mind - they build on top of Amazon EC2 and sell themselves as a
> "platform as a service". Business/Marketing jargon but they are essentially
> still a VPS (IMO, a VPS--) underneath.
>
No, they are not. VPS and PaaS are very different. dotcloud seems to
offer various services you can u
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:42 AM, 0 <0...@0throot.com> wrote:
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> No, they are not. VPS and PaaS are very different. dotcloud seems to
> offer various services you can use to build you application while in a
> VPS you can go nuts and do *whatever* you want with your guest OS since
> you get root a
Hi,
Never mind - they build on top of Amazon EC2 and sell themselves as a
"platform as a service".
They don't sell it as Platform as a Service (which is known as PaaS) but
they say that it is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). There is lot of
difference between the two and of course Amazon has
> Right. They offer the services of "ops" which in the VPS world is to be
> done on one's own.
>
Not necessarily, because there are also fully managed VPS providers who
do the ops for you. But you are right, it is something similar.
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On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 10:17 +0530, Suraj Kumar wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 18:24 +0530, Suraj Kumar wrote:
> > > dotcloud is a VPS:
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server and
> > > due to its inherently 'compartmentalized' nature it allows a
> hosting
> > > service provider
>
> a VPS as I understand it is a share on a server which as far as the user
> is concerned is a full server with root access. The only thing one
> cannot do in most VPSs is install a new distro. One can upgrade to a new
> release of the installed distro. Dotcloud does not even give shell
> access
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:39 AM, kenneth gonsalves
wrote:
> a VPS as I understand it is a share on a server which as far as the user
> is concerned is a full server with root access. The only thing one
> cannot do in most VPSs is install a new distro. One can upgrade to a new
> release of the ins
On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 11:49 +0530, Suraj Kumar wrote:
> > a VPS as I understand it is a share on a server which as far as the
> user
> > is concerned is a full server with root access. The only thing one
> > cannot do in most VPSs is install a new distro. One can upgrade to a
> new
> > release of t
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 12:14 PM, kenneth gonsalves
wrote:
> by the end user?
>
If you mean by the person choosing to host with such services, partly yes -
to the extent of 'selecting' which predefined OS stack we'd like to use.
Cheers,
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On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 12:14 PM, kenneth gonsalves
wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 11:49 +0530, Suraj Kumar wrote:
> > Not quite. VPSes, whether achieved using Paravirtualization (like Xen)
> > or
> > using Compartmentalization (like OpenVZ) limits / binds one to the
> > same
> > kernel but everyt
On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 00:40 +0530, Arun Venkataswamy wrote:
> I use Linode VPS
> http://www.linode.com/faq.cfm
>
> Apart from a wide choice of distributions the end user can select,
> there is
> an option to upload your own distribution.
things are improving - maybe my guy also offers this now.
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