I love the idea of facilitating hosting of "low-end" apps, and I'd be happy to see if the Webmaker umbrella is a good one to bring to bear, especially for the real beginners.
But I'd say that with systems like Heroku and EC2 it's hard to argue that hosting a server is prohibitive for a dev. Websites are cheap, SSL certs are cheap and will be getting cheaper, and there are free options. I don't see any data saying that devs aren't making webapps because hosting is prohibitive. Is anyone? (I think it's too _hard_ for people who don't have the skills, but that's a whole different ball of wax). On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Benjamin Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 February 2015 at 18:56, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Now if we think that hosting an application is too prohibitive we >> should offer something like https://{myapp}.mozillapp.example/ >> > > FWIW I think we should consider doing that anyway. We currently host > packaged apps and if that makes not wanting to run a web server an argument > for creating a packaged app rather than a web app then we should at least > offer hosting for web apps too (or partner with multiple web hosts who > would like to offer that service) and make it as easy as submitting a > packaged app. >
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