Hosting for Immutant applications

[John Andrews]

Hello,

I'm an application developer interested in setting up a new application using Immutant and I'm wondering about the easiest host to deploy to. I don't want to invest a bunch of time into tweaking configuration if I can avoid it. I'm looking for something approaching Heroku's ease of deployment, but supporting Immutant's great features.

I'm interested in taking advantage of Immutant's message queue with persistence across restarts, the Immutant web server and job scheduler. In addition I'll need Postgresql. I don't come from a Java background and I don't have much experience running or configuring java servers, so I'm looking for a PaaS. 

OpenShift seems like a strong contender, given it's run by RedHat the same co who supports Immutant development, but there seem to be some issues there. I found https://github.com/immutant/openshift-immutant-cart and https://github.com/openshift-quickstart/immutant-quickstart which are last updated 3 years ago. Are these still relevant?

I signed up for OpenShift but it seems as if they are between platforms at the moment. The v3 preview states that it isn't yet suitable for production deployment (as it deletes your app after 30 days) and the v2 isn't allowing new signups (that I can find). Does anyone know how soon v3 will be out of preview phase?

Are there other good alternatives to OpenShift for hosting which offer some of the same PaaS features?

Failing that, are there any good tutorials or other resources which you can point me to which help in setting up the necessary infrastructure?

Thanks,

John