> Do you have more than one Haibu server running? And if so, how would
> you go about doing ReverseProxy/LoadBalancing?

> Thanks,
> Gustavo Machado

> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:03 PM, chrismatthieu
> <christophermatth...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Tim,

>> I'm the founder of Nodester, the open source Node.JS PaaS.  Your project
>> sounds really cool!  Answers to your questions are provided below:

>> - I know that nodester is hosted on AWS's and with that how many apps are
>> hosted per server? Are the server like a 8GB/RAM 4/core pc running maybe 20
>> apps per server, or is is a micro server running just one app?

>> Nodester is currently hosting over 6,000 Node.JS apps on a single Extra
>> Large AWS instance without a reverse proxy!  We have a team currently
>> working on horizontal scaling and monitoring and the ability to spin up
>> additional resources like Heroku's dynos.  We are calling them "Jets" to go
>> along with our rocket theme ;)

>> - To nodester. why did you chose git for the pushing of apps to the backend?

>> We love Git!  It's the modern way for updating code and pushing updates on
>> many services.  Now that Windows users are becoming more familiar with git,
>> our support efforts have decreased with trying to teach people how to use
>> it.  Setting up an RSA key the first time for git has always been our most
>> FAQ.  Over time, this has proven to be the right decision!

>> - To nodester / nodejitsu. Have you guys thought of a kind of dynos (heroku
>> style)? if so how would you guys go about doing that? like you spawn 2
>> processes of the same app and just route request to each app like node does
>> with the cluster module?

>> Jets are coming...

>> - To nodester. On average what are your costs running 3000+ app on AWS's?

>> $500 per month (which is sponsored by @Tropo) :)

>> Gotta love the Node.JS community and Tropo - http://tropo.com!

>> Hack the Planet!
>> @ChrisMatthieu

>> On Saturday, August 11, 2012 2:33:21 PM UTC-7, Tim Dickinson wrote:

>>> Hey all.

>>> So this is not a ANN but more of an request for advice from nodester /
>>> nodejitsu / haibu and the community in general. What i have been working on
>>> for the past few months is of sort a PaaS. The basic idea behind it is to
>>> create a server to can spawn node apps that are pushed out to it with a cli.

>>> I'm calling it Raft as in a boat to float apps on. It has gone through a
>>> few iterations since it creation. It started out as a MVC style app
>>> container. The basic app structure was you would have your model's, view's
>>> and controller's, and raft would load all these into the app, kinda so you
>>> didn't have to code and express server or is server or what have you. As i
>>> worked on raft and played around with it more i found that the MVC style was
>>> much less dynamic then i would have liked. So from that the current version
>>> has evolved.

>>> The current version... OK the current version is now very low leave, in
>>> fact it does not do much other then load the app and its module in a context
>>> with its own process. the only different between the raft context and plain
>>> nodejs context is that you get a global called raft. what the raft object
>>> does is gives you http, tcp, express server and so on. these servers are
>>> just like the native server but for one difference and that been
>>> httpserver.listen, the native httpserver.listen take a port and host, but
>>> what the raft httpserver.listen take is a string that is a domain that gets
>>> routed to the port of that app.

>>> OK so like i say this is not an announcement but more a request for
>>> advice.

>>> Some of the questions:

>>> I know that nodester is hosted on AWS's and with that how many apps are
>>> hosted per server? Are the server like a 8GB/RAM 4/core pc running maybe 20
>>> apps per server, or is is a micro server running just one app?

>>> Nodejitsu are the developer of  haibu, but i dont think that is what they
>>> are using for the PaaS. Now on that is their backend a custom build of haibu
>>> or is it a whole new module in its own?

>>> To nodester. why did you chose git for the pushing of apps to the backend?

>>> To nodester / nodejitsu. Have you guys thought of a kind of dynos (heroku
>>> style)? if so how would you guys go about doing that? like you spawn 2
>>> processes of the same app and just route request to each app like node does
>>> with the cluster module?

>>> To nodester. On average what are your costs running 3000+ app on AWS's?

>>> OK so this is what im going to ask for now. I do have more question but i
>>> would like to see if i get any answers for these ones.

>>> Gota love node!

>>> The code for now. Please note that this is not a release but a Q&A
>>> https://npmjs.org/package/raft
>>> https://github.com/FLYBYME/Raft

>>> Thanks all
>>> Tim

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