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Jelastic - Holy Grail of Java Hosting? (user review)

23 points| jjohns | 14 years ago |blog.jelastic.com | reply

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[+] ryandvm|14 years ago|reply
If it doesn't have a free tinkerer level pricing tier, I'm not interested.

This is what App Engine and Heroku have going for them.

[+] jjohns|14 years ago|reply
As of now, while in Beta, it's totally free--and has been for about 5mo. That said, we are working on getting a free tier. Doing free as a startup when you have to have infrastructure on the backend is a little difficult.
[+] jjohns|14 years ago|reply
Right now, it is free. You should give it a try. Within about 5min you will know if you like it or not.
[+] gphil|14 years ago|reply
Agreed. If it costs money to learn how to use a new PaaS, adoption will most likely suffer.
[+] traxtech|14 years ago|reply
Pricing is not clear. From an official blog post, that's ~ 14 $ / month / cloudlet (128 MB RAM; 200MHz CPU equiv). But what about the databases ?

Pleaase give us a cost calculator!

[+] jjohns|14 years ago|reply
Sorry that wasn't clear. The way it works is pricing is the same for database and app servers, i.e. per cloudlet. HDD is free for the first 1GB. After that, there will be a monthly fee for storage that we have yet to announce. (it will be in line with what storage is currently running in the market)
[+] emeraldd|14 years ago|reply
Hmm, I can't seem to find pricing at all on the main site, at least not in a way that I can make sense of. There does seem to be something linked off a blog post buried in another blog post. That bugs me.
[+] jjohns|14 years ago|reply
At the end of this month, we will have the pricing on the site. Our blog post on pricing was about us launching commercially at the end of this month. At that time, we will publish pricing on our page.
[+] jyou|14 years ago|reply
http://jelastic.com/team? Is this a Russian company?
[+] jjohns|14 years ago|reply
We are something of an international company. We have offices in the US and Ukraine. Our funding comes from Runa Capital, which is Russian. I am based in Houston, TX. :)
[+] julianb|14 years ago|reply
Their documentation looks a lot like Heroku Dev Center. Anyone know if this is an open source wiki?
[+] jjohns|14 years ago|reply
We have been using Tender for it, but are most likely going to change because it does not have the functionality that we need.