Hacker News Reader

We can convert apps (including staging servers) to Live pretty quickly, usually the same business day. Or you can create a Live app yourself and re-push the code there, still talking to your staging database (giving you more time to copy the data on that database to the new application).

View on HN

Hello Andy :-)

Those people were not concerned about the speed at which to convert, more about the sudden extra cash needed.

(note that I don't blame DotCloud for this really! Just giving a data point on something I heard).

I will agree here: I will be given the budget to upgrade these to live instances, and that is what I'll do in the interim. But this mean time I'll have to explain it to my boss (it will shake some of his confidence in my decisions), and it'll put pressure on me to find a lower-cost way to do testing.

I don't disagree with Dotcloud's decision! But our entire stack literally depends on them, so here is another data point about how this will affect us.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com