Deploy Meteor for just a dollar on a Heroku alternative Cloud

deployment
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Will like to introduce the community to OpsCaptain (Cloud hosting provider for developers - Operating since 2016). OpsCaptain provides a Heroku-like experience for a fraction of what you pay on Heroku. The platform comes built in with MongoDB (Shared) or you can deploy a dedicated MongoDB in another container if you want access to the Oplog.

We provide all the features of a modern cloud as we reviewed current providers on the market to build out platform. Git integration, CLI, Buildpacks, Zero downtime deployment and Let’s encrypt certs are provided.

Platform overview worth noting:

  • Only scales up vertically. If you want to scale out, OpsCaptain has no support for this.
  • We offer basic monitoring such as CPU and memory usage without historical metrics.
  • Meteorjs applications are built with the Heroku Horse buildpack. (https://github.com/AdmitHub/meteor-buildpack-horse)
  • Shared MongoDB database does not have Oplog tailing. Something to keep in mind.
  • No email support just forum support. However, we do respond timely.

Pricing overview (Billed hourly):
All instances come with a free 1 GB shared MongoDB database.

  • 128 MB container - $1.55/mo
  • 256 MB container - $2.59/mo
  • 512 MB container - $5.18/mo
  • 1 GB container - $10.36/mo

More on OpsCaptain Meteor.js hosting:

Our pricing rivals DIY on Vultr, DigitalOcean and makes better sense to use OpsCaptain instead of the MUP + VPS combo considering all you get. You can review all features on our pricing page.

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This is very interesting, some questions

So how does that work? I see references on your site about dedicated database add-ons, but can’t find the docs how to do this, storage limites, pricing, etc.

What would be your suggestion to accomplish horizontal scaling using OpsCaptain?

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For the dedicated database addons, you simply point and click on the dashboard to install them. They are exactly the same prices as the app containers. For example if you wanted a 1 GB RAM MongoDB database with 10 GB File storage, that is $10.36. After the instance is provisioned, you can simply use mongo shell to log in and initiate a replica set. This will start the local database which provides the oplog functionality.

To scale out on OpsCaptain, you will have to say create multiple apps, app1.opscaptain, app2.opscaptain, app3.opscaptain and then use Cloudflare to load balance to them or you could use the Cloudfoundry Nginx buildpack.

We basically provide the basics and you decide how you want to use the platform.