On Cloud: Show off your rails or merb app with free hosting
oncloud.orgIt'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.
Oh, that's cool. I didn't realize that about the service at first. They serve two very different and very useful niches.
You can do the same with Heroku:
sudo gem install heroku
heroku keys:add
heroku create
git push heroku master
heroku open
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.
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.
I'd be really cool if they support wildcard subdomains, as my current project relies on it.
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.
Awesome, thanks!
Hey, if you follow the new instructions you should be able to use wildcards now. It's not in the instructions yet, and the gem is really fresh so may not be up on gemcutter yet, but if you put "*papersmith.oncloud.org" where it says to put "papersmith.oncloud.org" it should work. Give it a go and let me know if it works.
What's the catch?