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Fortheon – A multi-language cloud application platform

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Been working with these guys for 6 months now watching them build the platform and helping them figure out how to scale it on DO, pretty nice tech, smart kids (and I mean kids!) :)

So you're the person to talk to when interested in building something on top of DO?

We love what you're doing guys; we built all kind of things early on to use your API with Python, node.js and Go (things like https://github.com/devo-ps/dopy). We're currently trying to integrate DO deeper into devo.ps

je@ :)

Awesome.

I've been using Fortheon as well for the past few months as part of their beta program within Novation Mobile and it's been awesome so far.

This looks great. I host several things on http://dotcloud.com right now but this pricing is a fraction of the DC price. I would love to see integration with some CI tools like codeship.io and obviously the documentation needs to get done ASAP. Good luck to the team, I'll keep an eye on the project for sure.

I've helped the team out a bit - if you have any ideas with other tools they should integrate, email their support I'm sure they'd love to see how they can make it happen.

Sent! Hopefully they aren't drowning in emails right now...

By the way, you guys can access docs at https://docs.fortheon.com Sorry about this, wasn't aware we were posted!

Looks pretty cool, is it built on top of DigitalOcean? I work at http://www.cloud66.com and we're doing something similar (but on several clouds)

@pkallberg yup, it's entirely on DigitalOcean

I notice that the pricing is very similar for extensions and application servers. Can you clarify that extension pricing is in addition to the core server hosting?

@filearts the extensions is a standalone server that can operate with or without an application server. Only our base server cost for application, load balancer and extensions are the same.

There's a typo in the about page: "you're application"...

also there are no contact information (email?)

Hey sorry about that, somebody posted this prematurely for us. But you can contact us at info@fortheon.com.

Not sure if this is ready for prime time yet? I mean most of their documentation says "Under construction"

I'm a friend of the founder, it indeed isn't ready yet, although docs should be up fairly soon. It is fully functional, and it is hosting a few platforms in production including http://hackerbracket.com

Hey, so sorry about that, we weren't aware somebody posted about this! But like krisshd said, we are fully functional and have several websites running on us.

I wish there was at least a mention of available storage (disk, choice of databases) and its price.

www.fortheon.com/pricing www.fortheon.com/extensions

Doesn't dokku does this already? I mean, I've tried dokku and my experience was quite similar to heroku.

This looks like a heroku competitor whereas dokku is a self-hosted option.

Exactly on point, Dokku is great when you want to manage everything yourself, but Fortheon takes care of all the hairy server interactions.

There's a couple benefits to using this, including the option to integrate load balancing as well as the extensions (such as database servers) that are the cheapest you'll get anywhere unless you set them up yourself on EC2 or a VPS.

Have you seen AWS? Elastic Beanstalk and RDS are pretty affordable solutions that our startup is using to allow us to scale when we need to.

The best benefit of Fortheon is that all your servers traffic is run through your own system that you built, load balancers, etc. but it's super easy to configure.

What about SSL? Do you charge an additional fee for SSL? I didn't find any mention of it anywhere.

SSL is free with the purchase of a load balancer.

I would worry about making promises about scaling applications you don't know anything about...not every problem can be solved by adding more hardware. If someone is doing the business software equivalent of the travelling salesman then it doesn't matter how many dynos they spin up: it will be slow

how does database access work? didn't see anything in the docs about it. Is there some amount of local space on the servers?

once you purchase a database, you get all of the credentials to connect to it externally or automatically once you tie an app

ah okay, but what's the pricing for that? https://www.fortheon.com/pricing looks like it's just for servers

checkout fortheon.com/extensions

No python support?

Or Go or Java/Scala/Clojure. I would hope these are on the way. I would think Go would be uber easy to support.

Not yet, it's definitely on the top of our priorities list!

Or Forth support?

Yeah :/ I think it's on the roadmap though.

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