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Show HN: Tyk Cloud – Open Source API Management in The Cloud

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Congrats on launching.

Where are you data center(s) located and what does it mean for API performance? I assume that your service basically works as a reverse proxy in front of my API, but wouldn't there be a noticeable performance penalty if my DC is e.g. in the US and yours is in Europe?

Also: You should probably go back and give the FAQ on the pricing page another sweep. https://cloud.tyk.io/pricing

assocaited costs = associated costs when you create a new API = When you create a new API don;t = don't

to name a few :)

Cheers, spelling has improved :-/ damned sausage fingers!

Our servers are currently in the US as that's where the market is (from what we've found, so far). It's something we've thought about and we will be looking at doing international deployments as soon as there is demand.

For API performance, a cloud-based setup does mean an increase in latency, but that is why our solution can be self-hosted too, it's a trade-off that works on a scale, you can start off with a cloud service, with quite straightforward integration and then as your API usage grows look at using Tyk within your own data centers.

> Our servers are currently in the US as that's where the market is

And yet your pricing page shows rates in GBP, not USD. What's up with that?

also heder !== header :) (under security and access control section)

Congrats guys! You know we're big fans of Tyk already (it says so right there in the testimonial)

Highly recommend this to anyone looking for a modern, light, powerful API management platform/service. We use the on-prem, open-souce version but I'm sure the SaaS version is just as good.

(no affiliation here...just lovers of great software).

Thanks so much! :-D

Why are you using Sam Soffes'[1] photo for a testimonial by someone called 'Luke B'?

[1] http://soff.es/about/

Ah, good point - legacy assets in the template, they'll need updating.

Here you go: https://www.dropbox.com/s/upjkq61j06qmjoa/Screenshot%202015-...

#theRealLukeB (although template Luke looks cooler)

Amazing, thanks! :-D

Done and updated - thank #TheRealLukeB! :-)

Congratulations on your launch! I'd love to hear some regular updates on how the company is doing and how the product is being received. So often I read this exciting and interesting launch announcement, and then... nothing. Did they succeed? Did they flop? I'm always interested in hearing things beyond the launch. Keep us updated!

Will do! We atually started as an open source / licensed hybrid model. Then moved to offer all of our software for free and charge for support. Moving to a cloud platform was a natural next step - not only is it a great way to demo the tech and on-board new users, but it's also a great way to accelarate features for the rest of our users.

You wouldn't believe how indebted we are to our community that give us feedback and feature suggestions, it's quite amazing really.

What language/platform is Tyk written in/designed for? I'm always curious about what SaaS vendors are using. There's so much variety and different approaches.

Sounds nice!

But... Maybe it's just a pet peeve of mine, but seeing, twice, images/videos of gears that wouldn't work, is irritating. Such a mistake doesn't look professional to me.

Ah yes, noted!

How does Tyk differentiate from Kong(http://getkong.org/)?

Tyk (self-hosted) offers a dashboard and analytics for free out of the box. :-)

Tyk Cloud was very much built to make the open source and free versions better (and sustainable), so I think there's probably some differences in motivation.

Ultimately we're trying to solve the same problems, which is great, we're seeing more and more projects try to make API management better, just noticed the other day that a new ruby-based app has shown up called API Umbrella (http://apiumbrella.io/)! It's getting busier, which is great news for API developers.

How does price scale when you exceed the number of requests allowed in a plan?

You would need to upgrade to the next tier - we're working on adding "soft maximums", currently they are hard cut-offs.

We would, most likely allow a certain % overage, then notify the user, with some kind fo three strikes rule to upgrade plans.

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