Show HN: Another PaaS Alternative to Heroku – moCloud.io

[waylandzhang]

Some folks at Tokyo just launched a Heroku alternative PaaS based on Docker containers called moCloud, what do you think?

https://mocloud.io

[waylandzhang]

Some features to consider: - Designed for large scale - Host your Docker containers - Virtual private cloud - Dedicated machines, no shared VMs - Ship code thru GitHub

[yrezgui → waylandzhang]

The main thing that disturbs me is load balancer ready pricing. Heroku is ready to scale by default and cheaper. Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy to see alternatives, I don't like monopoly

[waylandzhang → yrezgui]

yeah, they have different pricing on load-balanced and single server stacks. But i'm not sure does Heroku provide "auto" scaling like AWS does or is it "manually" scaling?

[yrezgui → waylandzhang]

You have both. For the $25/month, you can enable manual or automatic scaling. I said a mistake on the pricing, their 1GB memory is at $50/month. Are you thinking to add 512MB instances ?

The load-balancer pricing is still confusing. Why not showing that as an option ?

[waylandzhang → yrezgui]

ya, that's a good idea! make things more clear.. (personally i still dont get why heroku charges that much)

[waylandzhang → waylandzhang]

And the free-tier pricing is up : https://mocloud.io/pricing

[mjhea0]

clickable -> https://mocloud.io