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I think I have found your application - approved now && live at http://monami.1.ai :)

will fix it - thanks for the feedback. Just approved your application :)

It is paid by myself and I do not need to make any money out of this - similar to the official mirror I am running for the PHP project. The service doesn't need ads/paid subscriptions but again it is not to be compared with a paid service as we do not provide professional support.

oh sorry if I missed that. Actually I just checked again and It looks like for free you can get only a web dyno with no worker ?(I always get confused by this) DB is limited to 10K rows we have 512MB but in any case we are not competing with Heroku at all - more power to heroku which is certainly a great service :)

sorry to hear that - perhaps the motivation/about you was too short? We have some pending applicants because of the short or vague information provided ..at any rate just drop me a line at dotgeek at 1 dot ai and I will activate it asap.

mostly for our limited knowledge of python but we could certainly add it in the future if there is some interest ! While there is no official support we want to be able to fix things if they do not work. This said I had a look last night and we could probably add it soon as it seems simple enough

I was just wondering why everyone expects a catch ! :) may be you can help me on this!

and actually mdasen did summarize many of the good paid alternatives which are backed by solid money and infrastructure.... but to be fairly honest the another big reason is that we are all busy with our full time careers and do not need the money / start a new commercial activity well the "fun" becomes work !

Hello Mdasen ! thanks for your comment and the very good questions. To start with a quick answer: "Would you be able to offer the service if you had to spend $1,000/mo?" Yes :) At the moment we have 3 servers and we are far from full capacity. Of course nothing can scale to the infinite but, from what I could observe, there are always people coming and going. We do have bigger hard disks than 128 gb so the quota in a single server is higher than 250 or it should be.

Why should you use 1.ai dotgeek over heroku or appfog ? If you do have a commercial application you should run in a paid service because, in the end, hosting your commercial or critical app will depend on support. This said our space is for developers/geeks/learners that want to try something not necessarily commercial.

Another reason I would see vs. Heroku free (I think is only fair to compare with the free option) is that here you do have a simple SFTP access and you run things like in the "old days"- your way. We also give MySQL which is not part of Heroku free. I also feel that the performance of an app in our server would be better vs. others free tiers.

I think that both Heroko and AppFog are great concepts as they take away the servers duty from your hands.

We do not compete with any paid service hence it is only entirely free and somehow "as is". I agree that this might be useless to many yet I would think that for a young developer - student or really anyone that wants to try something without any financial commitment it is a pretty good offer.

Thanks for the kudos (I don't think you have been harsh at all) I think dropping your app via SFTP (being Ruby, PHP or even a perl app with Dancer) is a very straightforward process and could be useful. Judging from the great numbers of signups after this post I think that at least some are curious which is always great ! Thanks again David

There is really no catch other that there is no professional support (see.. for a slightly longer explanation http://1.ai/specs) and that we take no responsibility for your data (e.g. you should always keep a backup. this doesn't mean that we do not care about the service just we do not want to be liable if something goes wrong).

I have all the numbers 0 to 9.ai I was early in the day when they opened registrations :)

0.ai is a clone of 1.ai at the moment

Hi dexen, the reason is that there are already many excellent (or so we hear) options for paid hosting /apps deployment and we think that there isn't a need for yet another another good service (unless you can really make a difference. We had some ideas in this direction like with having all the apps cloned in 3 live servers in different locations including the mysql database but this was just an idea) but we do give some support through the forums and occasionally via email :)

thanks for posting this - I am behind 1.ai so if you have any question ask away :)

Good Story and Dancer is really good. For these that want to give it a try we support dancer on the free hosting at http://1.ai

Perhaps how popular a solution for the web is depends also on free or easy hosting options where people can experiment ?

This is not entirely accurate because: 1) True google ads can be more effective but are much more expensive vs. Facebook; 2) On facebook you can in fact target users by age and interests. You cannot target by age on google and with an higher CPC it doesn't always pay off.

The model of facebook or twitter is not wrong. It is the same used by TV ads, newspapers etc. you try to target your potential consumers that might be perfectly good passive buyers. Not only people that search for an Hawaii vacation would buy one ....

Worth to say thou that the real price was 42$ in fact. I bought via my bank and I could not get a trade confirmation for days (even big banks like UBS did sue about this) so it was more 42$ than 38$ for the few unlucky :)

rorrr, well there is no catch other than there is no support duty outside the forums (this said and having spent several hours to make the system work we wouldn't let it sink without caring). What I mean is that this is not meant to compete/let people move from a professional hosting where they can get support from their mission critical stuff. Yet it is not capped as many free but limited services. We have and will not have any ad. Is there still a "market" for such a free service? :)

Whit, I did a lot of loans via Kiva (I saw that you did mention this in some of your comparisons) and even with indiegogo to total stranger after reading about their stories on google+. I did also donate to several developers using flattr.

I would like to donate via gittip but I see some issues: a) As a non U.S. resident/citizen I only used trusted providers like paypal for the above mentioned donations/loans (both kiva and indiegogo support it) b) Anonymous: this is in general a turn off. You did mention Kiva and how people pay to be part of the story. This is very right but don't forget the show off power of Kiva. I don't know if this is right or wrong but for any donation I did not want to be anonymous. I honestly doubt that a developer would take a tip or donation as a limitation of freedom but what I do know is that it takes a lot of away from the donor. At any rate I applaud your initiative but I think that paypal is a must.