I must say for the convenience and stability that comes with Galaxy I donāt mind paying up the extra buck. I really think we can complement the MDG team on a great hosting product and I feel its good practice to support them since they give us Meteor which made starting my project possible as a single developer (Which Iām convinced would not have been possible before meteor came along). Thanks to MDG for making my business model work!
Also Atlas is pretty great! I tried compose, mlab and modulus before settling with Atlas. The product quality, ssl and replica setup and refined user access rights that come with Atlas has saved me a considerable amount of time.
I understand that on hobby projects one would consider not spending the extra dollars or on really large project choosing the cheapest hosting options can save lots of cash, but for any medium size project I donāt see why one would spend time on a slightly cheaper host and loose the convenience/stability of Galaxy and Atlas.
Weāre maintaining the integration for Azure App Service which is compatible with Meteor 1.4+ and works through the Native CI system (which can painlessly auto-sync with your remote repository).
The platform is backed by an SLA and provides configurable auto-scaling, zero-downtime updates as well as access to internals (for more advanced architectures such as multi-regional fail-over or A/B testing).
The pricing is similar to Galaxy, but if youāre a start-up: Microsoft offers 3 years of free hosting ($150/month/developer for up to 5 accounts) through their BizSpark program which also includes technical support & complimentary access to Office 365, Windows, SQL Server, etc.
Iām thinking of subscribe to BizSpark, as Iām into a startup, months after saw this ā¦ Iām still impressed that Microsoft just OFFER 3 years of free server, no fees if we leave at the end. Thatās ā¦ crazy, isnāt it ?
Did you had any problem w/ integrating azure, subscribing to BizSpark etc. ?
Even tough I read a lot of time that tried to run Meteor on not special-meteor platform as Galaxy is āprobably not a good ideaā and itās complex, I finally think itās RIDICULOUS to have to rent specific servers, as devs we have to be able to set up a server IMHO.
Besides I donāt get why a VPS is like more than 10 time or IDK less expensive than Meteor-dedicated servers as Galaxy, why donāt just one propose a galaxy-like service which will use on the background DO servers (for instance) but offers an interface and a deployment like Galaxy for easily handle the server.