Re: Hosting Providers

2014-05-01 Thread Jarrod Swart
offering a $100 credit to try out the Java platform and give us feedback. Richard. On Friday, April 18, 2014 11:36:05 AM UTC+1, Adrian Mowat wrote: Hi Everyone, I am currently looking at hosting providers for Clojure for my company. We are using Engine Yard for our Ruby applications

Re: Hosting Providers

2014-05-01 Thread Mike Haney
One thing to keep in mind since he's using Datomic - there is currently no way to restrict access to the transactor, so it needs to be run behind a firewall. This can be done easily on AWS by creating a VPC where only the peer is exposed to the net. Outside of AWS, you're pretty much on your

Re: Hosting Providers

2014-04-30 Thread Adrian Mowat
it out at http://ui.engineyard.com . We're offering a $100 credit to try out the Java platform and give us feedback. Richard. On Friday, April 18, 2014 11:36:05 AM UTC+1, Adrian Mowat wrote: Hi Everyone, I am currently looking at hosting providers for Clojure for my company. We are using

Re: Hosting Providers

2014-04-24 Thread Richard Watson
currently looking at hosting providers for Clojure for my company. We are using Engine Yard for our Ruby applications and we looking for something comparable in terms of providing an easy path to getting started and easy ongoing maintenance (they allow you to apply OS patches with zero

Hosting Providers

2014-04-18 Thread Adrian Mowat
Hi Everyone, I am currently looking at hosting providers for Clojure for my company. We are using Engine Yard for our Ruby applications and we looking for something comparable in terms of providing an easy path to getting started and easy ongoing maintenance (they allow you to apply OS

Hosting Providers

2014-04-18 Thread Jason Stewart
Hi Adrian, The only hosting provider that comes to my mind, thinking of your requirements is heroku. Applying patches is usually as simple as making an empty commit and pushing to heroku. Not every application will fit into the heroku way of doing things, but in my experience the ones that do

Hosting Providers

2014-04-18 Thread Mike Haney
In addition to heroku, there is Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, which lets you deploy a WAR file on EC2 without having to setup the infrastructure yourself. Both are great ways to go. I lean towards using Heroku for it's simplicity, but Amazon makes sense when you need to use other Amazon

Re: Hosting Providers

2014-04-18 Thread Adrian Mowat
Hi, Thanks for the advice. I should have mentioned that are are going to use Datomic but I'm not sure of the tradeoffs around different storage platforms. Have I understood correctly that Heroku only offers Postgres as a storage option? Many Thanks Adrian On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:43 PM,

Re: Hosting Providers

2014-04-18 Thread Mike Haney
I know they also have Mongo and Neo4j available on Heroku, but neither of those are supported as a Datomic back end. Postgres will work with Datomic just fine, though. The only hitch with Heroku is that I'm not sure how to go about deploying a transactor. Maybe someone has done it and

Re: Hosting Providers

2014-04-18 Thread Adrian Mowat
Hi Mike, That would be really helpful. Thanks! We're much earlier in the process than you at the moment but I would be delighted to share anything that comes up Cheers Adrian On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Mike Haney txmikes...@gmail.com wrote: I know they also have Mongo and Neo4j