Why isn't hosting Meteor as simple as writing Meteor?

deployment
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I don’t know why people are saying mup is hard…

I suck at devops and had a working production app on digitalocean in the time it took to watch this video:

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Here’s one: https://aws.amazon.com/campaigns/lead-qual-credits/

Here’s another if you’re a student:

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I agree. DO + compose + mupx is where it’s at.

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Also consider Scalingo - I found it very easy, and I am very much a beginner. (but with a distant background in I.T) I tried Modulus first, and whilst the process was simple, our application simply failed to work. Being the lazy sod that I am, rather than debug the problem, I tried another provider - and it worked first go.

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wow it looks really good (I mean very simple) https://scalingo.com/meteorjs-hosting
I wonder what are the drawbacks and how reliable is the company.

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FWIW, we are a paying subscriber to Scalingo now, and using it in “production”. (a TINY app, typically used by just one person, but nevertheless an extremely useful app) No issues yet. We were having serious performance problems with the Meteor deployment server - these problems vanished as soon as we moved to Scalingo.

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Forgot to add that if/when we want to scale, Scalingo might not be as cost effective as some others. That’s one possible drawback.

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I’m having a lot of success using heroku with Meteor; it’s free to develop on and super simple to deploy and scale.

I’ve been using this method without fail!
http://justmeteor.com/blog/deploy-to-production-on-heroku/

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WordPress has been around since 2001, pretty obvious why there’s so many 1 click installs for it… Meteor just hit 1.0. As a developer I expect to know basic config of servers and using Meteor Up, or reading tutorials on how to install a Meteor app, just like one would expect with a Rails app. Or you can wait for Galaxy Personal Developer Edition to be released!