DotCloud Adds Support For WebSockets, Vertical Scaling And More

[KenCochrane]

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/27/open-paas-dotcloud-adds-support-for-websockets-vertical-scaling-and-more/

[shykes]

Here are the announcements on dotCloud's blog.

http://blog.dotcloud.com/dotcloud-announces-native-support-f...

http://blog.dotcloud.com/dotcloud-now-supports-mongodb-20

http://blog.dotcloud.com/now-scale-vertically-or-horizontall...

[zerosanity]

I wonder what info-structure changes had to be done to support WebSockets. Are they using experimental nginx support? Something else?

[KenCochrane → zerosanity]

If you look at this page, towards the bottom

http://docs.dotcloud.com/guides/websockets/

It says the following: "the old load balancers are based on Nginx, while the new ones are based on Node.js"

[frisco]

What are the limits to the vertical scaling? Can I, for example:

  dotcloud scale MYAPP db:memory=144G

How much would such a thing cost, if possible?

[KenCochrane → frisco]

According to this page: http://docs.dotcloud.com/guides/scaling/

The max you can scale is 64GB, However scaling above 4GB must be explicitly enabled for your account, so you need to contact them.