Mosso hosting cloud 5

Posted by Slobodan Kovačević on September 17, 2008

Mosso’s hosting cloud at $100 / month seems like a good solution to get a scalable server. However one thing bugs me, actually two things…

First one: they offer FTP only access. Meaning you cannot deploy sites directly from code repositories (i.e. git or svn). That sucks.

Second thing that bugs me: for $100 you get quite a lot of computing power which can be used to run multiple sites – but you are only allowed to have one Rails app running. Only one. If you want additional Rails apps (for example to have a test server) you need to pay an extra fee.

I know it’s cloud computing and that you have to be able to run it with any additional configuration (that’s why I think it’s ok that you have to freeze your gems in Rails apps, because you cannot install any gems yourself)… but not being able to checkout my code from repository and having to upload the whole app each time you make changes is really annoying.

In their defense, the support guy said that they are working on it, but he could give me an ETA when they’ll allow something like that.

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  1. Allan L. Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:22:03 UTC

    Despite the limitations, did you end up using mosso to host your rails app? Is the experience otherwise positive?

  2. Slobodan Kovačević Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:27:54 UTC

    No, I didn’t use it.

    I found that there are some other limitations (for example, you must freeze all gems). Some of the limitations are inevitable if you are going to host a site on a cloud, but…

    The lack of svn/git support is really a big problem for me.

  3. Allan L. Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:26:08 UTC

    Yup, lack of git support was a deal-breaker for me as well :-(

    Thank you for responding to my comment! :)

  4. Case Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:17:05 UTC

    We used Mosso for one year and they are hands down the worst host I’ve ever had the displeasure of using. “PHP is degraded” is a common issue that pops up at least once a week, SSL degrades, everything degrades on a constant basis. I’d stay away if I were you.

  5. Slobodan Kovačević Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:08:13 UTC

    In defense of Mosso I did hear that some people are pretty satisfied with it. Sorry to hear that you had such problems with them.

    What exactly they meant by “PHP is degraded”?

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