I think someone posted this on another thread somewhere (and sorry I could not dig it back up). With MongoLab and Google Cloud Platform, I literally just re-specified the Parse App ID and Keys and got the Parser server up and running in matter of minutes: https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/resources/frameworks/parse-s... Yes, with limitation on quite a few things now. But it's a good start.

Next thing to explore is how to scale this thing out.