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Comment by aaronbrethorst | Hacker News Reader

For some reason this is buried at the very bottom in low-contrast text:

    CTL-C is the brain-child from the makers
    of AppFog.

    AppFog is now part of a $19.8B company
    which means we have the resources to
    back this in a big way. :)

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I'm still waiting to see when that Century Link acquisition is going to have any effect on Appfog. Hell, they still do not support node 0.10.x and 0.10 stable was released six months ago. I actually have the same issue with Azure websites, the newest version they support is 0.8.x, while Heroku has up to 0.10.15

Since this is Docker-based, it sounds like it will support any version of Node that you'd like. If you want to run on whatever's on master, it should be possible.

We are not trying to hide these fact, it is just to let people know that this is a legitimate effort from legitimate people with more backing than a vaporware startup has. This is not AppFog though, which is why we do not feature these points prominently.

This should be much bigger. I was ready to dismiss this as some fly-by-night operation using the stock flat theme until I saw that message.

AppFog was built originally around another PaaS, Cloud Foundry. Wonder how this offering will compare with that. I can understand that there would be more control because of the IaaS nature of the offering. Anything stopping them from doing the same with Cloud Foundry ?

Cloud Foundry will be part of CTL-C

It's weird: if it's such a good thing, why not make it more prominent? It was the last thing I read on the page and it left me confused.

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