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yannskion Why we’ve decided to decommission Gov.uk PaaS

Scalingo https://scalingo.com is basically a french Heroku-compatible PaaS based on a reliable french IaaS (Outscale, cloud subsidiary of Dassault Systemes, the famous maker of Catia, Solidworkds, etc)

yannskion Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

you're comparing a PaaS with a piece of hardware. It's absolutely not comparable.

Yann, CEO at Scalingo

yannskion Covid-19 Open Research Dataset

CEO at Scalingo here. Scalingo may help you cover the cost cf our latest announcement https://twitter.com/ScalingoHQ/status/1240282733659774979 Contact the support for more details!

yannskion MLab is being acquired by MongoDB

Another MongoDB as a Service, especially useful for european looking for a MongoDB hosting in EU: https://scalingo.com/databases/mongodb

yannskion Bootstrap 4.1.2 released

There's a few refinements in BS4. Refinements that become quickly inavouable. First and foremost the new flexbox directives all grid related stuff (mobile first). That's why I systematically migrate all my projects to BS4 even though it's not 100% needed.

yannskion Deploying geographically distributed services on Kubernetes Engine

What about databases?

yannskion Cluster and app management services in Docker Cloud are shutting down on May 21

This is why you should write your app code to be independant from your current provider, Always thinking that you may have to change (maybe urgently) in the future

yannskion Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones

I still love my N9 and I still reminds how fluid is UI was, especially at the time of slow Android...

yannskion Migrate Apps from Heroku to Google Cloud

It's a bit sad that the article does not describe the "why"...

yannskion Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark Beta 1 Released

After leaving the Ubuntu world a few releases ago because I was tired of having old Gnome releases and because I wanted Wayland because of its Hidpi support, I will surely come back :)

yannskion In Urban China, Cash Is Rapidly Becoming Obsolete

NFC payments quickly spread all over France in the past 12 months. It's nearly everywhere now, with no minimal payment amount.

yannskion Announcing Free and Automated SSL Certs

Scalingo has it for a few months https://blog.scalingo.com/2016/12/24/letsencrypt.html

yannskion Rails developers should learn React

Rails developers, ie web developers having appetite for nice, industrialization ready technologies, may prefer Ember...

yannskion Formation of Tesla Advanced Automation Germany

So you're basing your conclusion on a graph that's mixing EV and PHEV? And only for the month of August? BTW due to its seasonality you cannot make any assumptions about the car market by looking at only 1 month.

yannskion Open Source PaaS Built on Docker

Thanks for the advice. We'll do that.

yannskion Open Source PaaS Built on Docker

You mean like Scalingo http://scalingo.com ? ;-)

Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder

yannskion Writing Cloud Functions

Like https://scalingo.com/pricing?

yannskion Meteor Galaxy, a cloud platform for Meteor applications

Yep https://scalingo.com/meteorjs-hosting

yannskion Meteor Galaxy, a cloud platform for Meteor applications

it seems to work now

yannskion Heroku2scalingo: migrate from Heroku to Scalingo in a minute

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yannskion Heroku2scalingo: migrate from Heroku to Scalingo in a minute

You may find what you want from our addons list here: https://scalingo.com/addons We have an addon provider API http://developers.scalingo.com/addon-provider-api/ and we're now working with several third party providers to enrich our marketplace.

yannskion Heroku2scalingo: migrate from Heroku to Scalingo in a minute

We'll have a new location in Singapore in the coming weeks/months. But if I understand well, it's not enough for japanese users?

yannskion Heroku2scalingo: migrate from Heroku to Scalingo in a minute

In fact we started the project in june 2013 because even though we were very fond of the way of thinking proposed by Heroku (git push and that's all), their pricing was way too high to target a lot more people.

yannskion Heroku2scalingo: migrate from Heroku to Scalingo in a minute

Unfortunately, we had to discontinue our free plan. Too much work for no money :/ We setup a free trial instead (30 days, no credit card required).

yannskion Heroku2scalingo: migrate from Heroku to Scalingo in a minute

Yep, you're right, we'll clarify that: we're renting bare metal servers from a french company which is not OVH http://www.agora-hosting.net/

yannskion Meteor Raises $20M

Yep, that's... interesting. For sure real time web application needs better reactivity when scaling up and down. But you can already achieve this kind of reaction time on existing platforms that uses Docker for example (disclaimer: I'm working on the Scalingo PaaS that already supports MeteorJS app, see https://scalingo.com/meteorjs-hosting).

yannskion Hosting for Node.js apps done right

Could you elaborate a bit on "their TCP socket implementation is such a joke" ? Are you talking about the Ruppell's Sockets addon ? What's your problem with it ? What could be an improvement to it ?

yannskion Appsdeck, EU-based PaaS, is now in open beta

Founder here.

1. when we'll charge a credit card (which should happen in the coming weeks as we're incorporating the company), we'll be already cheaper than Heroku in a price/performance ratio 2. to be honest we're more pessimistic than you about the number of containers that we can host on a single server like the one you cited (at Appsdeck we use only SSD equipped servers with more cores than in the machine you cited)

That said, our price could change a little bit depending on the real workload that our cluster can handle in real life.