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If you're looking for a provider already out of beta, I'd encourage you to check-out https://exoscale.ch (disclaimer: I'm the CTO there).

We have object-storage, a heroku compatible PaaS and our cloudstack based IaaS. We also contribute a ton of dOSS things whether in existing projects (riemann, collectd, graphite) or home grown projects such as http://pithos.io

If you're keen to try out, you can register with the WELOVEHN coupon which will get you started with a few more credits than the usual CHF20, we also do special prices for startups, available here: https://www.exoscale.ch/pricing-target/

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The right thing to do in this situation is refrain from commenting in the thread at all.

Whoever "cloudscale" is, I'm sure it's a big deal to get on the front page of HN and having a competitor sneak in their promo codes in the comment thread to snipe potential customers probably puts a damper on things.

Classy.

Whatever the ethics of it, actually I am currently looking for a Swiss based hosting provider that looks a lot like cloudscale/exoscale. However Cloudscale is just "coming soon" and Exoscale isn't, so knowing about it was rather useful. Actually I had no idea that you could get advanced app hosting platforms like this that were regional. I thought Heroku was it.

Exoscale would get more money from me if they had hosted postgres as well as mysql though.

hi mike, we actually do have mysql available and PG is on the roadmap. https://www.exoscale.ch/add-on/mysql/

Why? It's extremely relevant, and it's useful.

>> ... can register with the WELOVEHN coupon which will get you started with a few more credits than the usual CHF20 ...

Looks good, but I don't see an entry for the coupon and the "usual" credit appears to be CHF 5?!?

On https://portal.exoscale.ch/register just hit "I have a coupon code". Otherwise, the default credit when you don't have coupon is indeed CHF 5 which gives you a couple of days to try out.

Thanks! Signed up and pointed my Arq backup at your S3 compatible service (one of many backends).

nice, duplicity also works out quite well for this use case.

>>heroku compatible PaaS

Are you based on Cloud Foundry?

No not cloud Foundry. LXC containers with the right orchestration.

should check out kubernetes

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