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Comment by shykes | Hacker News Reader

As usual, several dotCloud team members are lurking here, so please throw criticism, questions and suggestions our way!

A few extra screenshots on the blog post, for traffic analytics, metrics, RAM consumption for instance, would really make a good job at showing the value to potential users :-)

I'm hosting my SaaS app on DotCloud and I really like the charts with http status over time, overall latency, RAM consumption etc!

Congratulations on the CLI improvement overall, all nice stuff!

How do you recommend that people estimate running costs for an app hosted with dotCloud before they've launched an app with you?

I can see that your new dashboard would be useful for scaling up and down once an app's running on dotCloud, but I'd prefer to be able to estimate running costs before committing to your platform.

Do you have any guidelines to estimate RAM/instance requirements? I'm new to PaaS-style hosting, so forgive me if this is simple stuff, but if I was running a basic Sinatra app with MongoDB and static file hosting, for example, how could I gauge my approximate running costs under dotCloud?

One way would be to actually set all of that up on a free sandbox application and put it under a similar load to what you expect to start with. Then you can use the same graphs to see your memory usage and calculate the monthly cost from there.

Are legacy projects not supported by the dashboard? I can't get past "Loading..."

The dashboard doesn't load at all for me in Chrome. Does in Opera.

Maybe turning off some extensions will help.

Ah. It does work in an incognito window.

Probably cached assets.

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