Cloud is a measure of scale. Heroku is more of a Balloon than a cloud. A Walled garden of finite scale containing some nebulous ether. I would reasonably argue RackSpace Cloud barely qualifies as a cloud. "Cloud Flare" and MediaTemple Cloud, and Liquid Web Cloud, are not clouds.
GAE advertised "Infinite Scale" and that might be a stretch, you could likely ride it to a top 500 alexa and that is what it means to be a cloud. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anders Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 12:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [google-appengine] Re: Price comparison between GAE, EC2 & Azure Another interesting cloud service is Heroku: http://www.heroku.com/ I have tried it briefly and it was very easy to deploy Ruby on Rails applications to the Heroku cloud (and for free). I haven't checked the Heroku cost-performance for larger applications though. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
