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For that price, how is nodejs-cloud differentiating themselves from the competition? Right now I can deploy a "small app" to nodejitsu for only $3/month...

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Small apps aren't the target audience, it seems. With the emphasis on scaling, sounds like they are targeting bigger apps and possibly enterprise customers (not sure how many enterprisey companies are using Node yet though).

but just drop us a mail deal@clever-cloud.com and we will give you what you need to run a real test, and see if our product will please you

In fact this price allow you to run your app "all the time" in your own VM with reasonable specs

I suppose I'm not really seeing the benefit here --don't nodejitsu, heroku, and others have the same "always on" policy?

I don't mean to rail against you or the service, but I am genuinely curious to see what I get for $50 a month (which AFAICT is more or less the same as nodejitsu and heroku). As MathewPhillips mentioned in my previous comment, it sounds like nodejs-cloud isn't targeting individual developers so much as it is pursuing small businesses and above.

In fact they often use a cold start system, like GAE. But it's true we target more some big industry... But I'm thinking changing some things about that :-) Feel free to test the service, we will share some dicount code with you to allow you to test it.

It would be nice to see some benchmarks against competitors. It would make sense to pay more for a faster service.

couldn't agree more

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