after a lot of hard work on my first app (I am 80% done) soon the time will come to deploy the beast…
My target market is germany and I can already tell that my customers want a “HOSTED in GERMAN” sticker.
So BOTH METEOR as well as MONGO needs to be hosted here. Where exactly does NOT matter, but Frankfurt might be an option Globale AWS Infrastruktur & Availability Zones – AWS
Galaxy only supports Ireland and NOT Frankfurt, so it is NOT an option right now.
So I guess I’ll have to do it myself and learn some devops? Damn, I’d really love to support MDG and give some $ back to them. Am I overseeing something?
What is the current simplest option to host a meteor-app in germany?
What technology works?
Is there a technology which can easily be scaled (meteor-containers and more mongo-power)?
Yeah, serverwise I have had good experiences with Hetzner and heard good things about digitalocean.
BUT the question is: which tool do you use for deployment? And how easy is it scale on growing demands?
I guess leaseweb does NOT offer any mongo- and meteor-specific stuff?
heroku regions
ID Location Runtime
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eu Europe Common Runtime
us United States Common Runtime frankfurt Frankfurt, Germany Private Spaces
oregon Oregon, United States Private Spaces
sydney Sydney, Australia Private Spaces
tokyo Tokyo, Japan Private Spaces
virginia Virginia, United States Private Spaces
The Heroku pipeline is great. Our app deploys to staging when we push commits to master branch. Then you get one-click promotion to production. Can run staging on a low-cost $7 hobby dyno.
@maxhodges Oh yeah! I’ll definetly check this solution out. I love how you explained your staging process. Can you even do that with galaxy? This is awesome!! We could then use a seperated CI to run Chimp-Tests against staging BEFORE deploying to production. Awesome!
@ericl: Yeah I am using @mitar 's BlazeComponents. Clusters seems to be arunoda-abandoneware. Are you using it successfully with 1.4 in combination with MUP?
No but i tested it on on linux unbuntu 16.04 tls with latest 1.4 i am still in development but mup is on my wishlist incl. herukan the app is an volunteer application so i have to keep the cost as low as possible. It is a package for residence and homelessness people.
You need database hosting too right? Why don’t you try to find a German-based MongoDB provider and still use Galaxy for the processing. Then you could put a “You’re data is located in Germany” sticker at least
But actually I don’t think doing devops yourself for a sticker like that is worth the effort. I’m using Galaxy both for my side project and for work and it’s a huge time-saver. So especially if you’re testing a business model with your app I’d suggest to stay lean and use Galaxy.
@bergjs: Yeah thats a cool idea! I guess I could go with “Mlab Frankfurt” and Galaxy West and hope for galaxy to support Frankfurt soon. No the question is how big latency will be if Meteor & Mongo are NOT in the same datacenter. Have YOU had a chance to compare heroku with galaxy like @maxhodges suggested?
@thebarty I never compared Heroku and Galaxy directly. So far we didn’t have any issues related to latency but I guess it depends on the type of app you are building and how important latency is for it. Again I would suggest to go with the easiest solution first and then optimize later.
@bergjs: Yeah you are totally right about choosing the easiest solution and SHIP SHIP SHIP.
It is not so easy to find a mongodb hosted by a german provider. The only option I have found so far is https://developer.swisscom.com/pricing, which is hosted in Swizz (DACH). Do you know any german paas?
