We were accepted into the Galaxy early access program, and paid an invoice for 1 year at $495 monthly. We are not a well-funded startup. We’re bootstrapping it, but we’ve had Meteor applications in production for two-and-a-half years already. Today we’re running 5 production apps (hosted on Modulus and Heroku) and also we spin up staging and testing servos when needed.
A single servo on modulus.io costs around $30, but you want to run on at least 2 servos to reduce downtime. So with 4-5 apps running on two servos you are over $200 per month on Modulus.io. You could host on Galaxy for $495 and it would cost twice as much, but you’d also have spare containers to grow into. Also (we hope) there will be better support and less downtime than with Modulus.io. (We’ve wasted way too much dealing with Modulus.io downtime and performance issues.)
Personally I wish Modulus.io had been more on the ball regarding the Meteor opportunity. They had a Meteor hosting solution years before Galaxy, but I feel they dropped the ball as I wrote about elsewhere.
If you are an individual developer, just stay with MUP, Modulus.io or whatever you are using and wait for Galaxy Individual Developer Plans to be announced.
My biggest criticism of Galaxy is that 1) I wish pricing was more a la carte. I don’t want to pay for 10 containers at $500 if I only need one or two containers. 2) metrics only show me the last few minutes. I should be able to see larger periods of time. We’d also like to see more stats baked into Galaxy. It’s very basic. 3) logs are purged on re-deploy so we lose the history. Also it would be nice to have some tools for searching the logs.