On Cloud: Show off your rails or merb app with free hosting

[stormbrew]

It's quite different from Heroku. With Heroku you're deploying your app to a foreign hosting service. With oncloud you're running it locally while making it accessible publicly. No need to push anything anywhere and you have full access to your local filesystem.

[cmelbye]

Oh, that's cool. I didn't realize that about the service at first. They serve two very different and very useful niches.

[nkh]

You can do the same with Heroku:

sudo gem install heroku

heroku keys:add

heroku create

git push heroku master

heroku open

[pkc]

Great idea. Was looking for something like this to show some prototype. Was wondering is it necessary to be restricted only to rails app? For ex., I can host a wiki and try to get static address with your service. Might want to check dyndsn sort of services.

[atambo]

I wonder what kind of latency hit you get from routing your requests through a proxy and more importantly how long the polling delay of the BRIDGE requests are.

[papersmith]

I'd be really cool if they support wildcard subdomains, as my current project relies on it.

[stormbrew]

I saw someone doing it in the logs (possibly you?) and plan to add that. Probably in the next couple of days along with some other changes to the client libraries.

[adelevie]

What's the catch?