AppHarbor

Anyone here tried AppHarbor? I just tried it and I must say the experience is beyond pleasant. And for small sites it's completely free, even with test-case execution, automatic builds, database and e-mail add-ons. The main interaction is through Git version control. Just make your local changes, Git push them to the AppHarbor cloud and the new modifications are online in seconds. Rollback to previous deployments should also be trivial (haven't tried that yet.)

I've tried it.  I think its great.  Unfortunately, I don't have anything interesting I'm doing on the web at the moment.  But I had a test site up in minutes.  Compared to Azure it was cake, although Azure does seem to be getting easier.  And my hope is that the Gu will make it much easier.

@exoteric:  I looked it up on Google but the site doesn't seem to have much information about what it is .... 

Basically it's a host site. You create an account and get your code to run from thier server, similar to any other hosting service, like E2C or Azure, but free for a single personal app.

The cool thing is that the way to upload and build your code is done via git. You add AppHarbor as one of your repositories and, when you check in some code, it automatically builds, runs the test sets and, if successful, publishes it to the production environment.

As Paolo says and you can revert back to previous builds with one click. In addition you can easily provision new add-ons like mail and databases (document and relational), etc.

@PaoloM & @exoteric:  I see ... sounds interesting.

1 day ago,PaoloM wrote

Basically it's a host site. You create an account and get your code to run from thier server, similar to any other hosting service, like E2C or Azure, but free for a single personal app.

One minor difference is that AppHarbor is Shared hosting, you'll be on a box with other peoples app.  In EC2, Azure you'll get your own (virtual) machine.  Infact AppHarbor is built on EC2.

As they said 'Azure done right!'. i dont know why Microsoft made the cloud stuffs complicated! Extremely pleased to use AppHarbor and if they supports TFS on version control and deployment it would be the best option for dev's in .NET stack for cloud development IMO.

@joycsharp: AppHarbor is intergerated with CodePlex so you can use TFS with CodePlex and publish the app on AppHarbor.

http://blog.appharbor.com/2011/08/26/announcing-codeplex-integration