Hi Tim, I'm the founder of Nodester, the open source Node.JS PaaS. Your project sounds really cool! Answers to your questions are provided below:
- I know that nodester is hosted on AWS's and with that how many apps are hosted per server? Are the server like a 8GB/RAM 4/core pc running maybe 20 apps per server, or is is a micro server running just one app? Nodester is currently hosting over 6,000 Node.JS apps on a single Extra Large AWS instance without a reverse proxy! We have a team currently working on horizontal scaling and monitoring and the ability to spin up additional resources like Heroku's dynos. We are calling them "Jets" to go along with our rocket theme ;) - To nodester. why did you chose git for the pushing of apps to the backend? We love Git! It's the modern way for updating code and pushing updates on many services. Now that Windows users are becoming more familiar with git, our support efforts have decreased with trying to teach people how to use it. Setting up an RSA key the first time for git has always been our most FAQ. Over time, this has proven to be the right decision! - To nodester / nodejitsu. Have you guys thought of a kind of dynos (heroku style)? if so how would you guys go about doing that? like you spawn 2 processes of the same app and just route request to each app like node does with the cluster module? Jets are coming... - To nodester. On average what are your costs running 3000+ app on AWS's? $500 per month (which is sponsored by @Tropo) :) Gotta love the Node.JS community and Tropo - http://tropo.com! Hack the Planet! @ChrisMatthieu On Saturday, August 11, 2012 2:33:21 PM UTC-7, Tim Dickinson wrote: > > Hey all. > > So this is not a ANN but more of an request for advice from nodester / > nodejitsu / haibu and the community in general. What i have been working on > for the past few months is of sort a PaaS. The basic idea behind it is to > create a server to can spawn node apps that are pushed out to it with a cli. > > I'm calling it Raft as in a boat to float apps on. It has gone through a > few iterations since it creation. It started out as a MVC style app > container. The basic app structure was you would have your model's, view's > and controller's, and raft would load all these into the app, kinda so > you didn't have to code and express server or is server or what have you. > As i worked on raft and played around with it more i found that > the MVC style was much less dynamic then i would have liked. So from that > the current version has evolved. > > The current version... OK the current version is now very low leave, in > fact it does not do much other then load the app and its module in a > context with its own process. the only different between the raft context > and plain nodejs context is that you get a global called raft. what the > raft object does is gives you http, tcp, express server and so on. these > servers are just like the native server but for one difference and that > been httpserver.listen, the native httpserver.listen take a port and host, > but what the raft httpserver.listen take is a string that is a domain that > gets routed to the port of that app. > > OK so like i say this is not an announcement but more a request for advice. > > Some of the questions: > > I know that nodester is hosted on AWS's and with that how many apps are > hosted per server? Are the server like a 8GB/RAM 4/core pc running maybe 20 > apps per server, or is is a micro server running just one app? > > Nodejitsu are the developer of haibu, but i dont think that is what they > are using for the PaaS. Now on that is their backend a custom build > of haibu or is it a whole new module in its own? > > To nodester. why did you chose git for the pushing of apps to the backend? > > To nodester / nodejitsu. Have you guys thought of a kind of dynos (heroku > style)? if so how would you guys go about doing that? like you spawn 2 > processes of the same app and just route request to each app like node does > with the cluster module? > > To nodester. On average what are your costs running 3000+ app on AWS's? > > OK so this is what im going to ask for now. I do have more question but i > would like to see if i get any answers for these ones. > > Gota love node! > > The code for now. Please note that this is not a release but a Q&A > https://npmjs.org/package/raft > https://github.com/FLYBYME/Raft > > > Thanks all > Tim > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
