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Re:Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching yo... by niftich on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @10:15AM (#13696064)
This is pretty slick with useful information presented in easy-to-compare form. The hardest part is going to be keeping the info up to date.

As others have mentioned, some pretty big-name offerings are missing despite being surprisingly capable. I use Google App Engine's free tier for some hobbyist-level hosting because it gives me full control over the incoming and outgoing HTTP request in an autoscaling PaaS, which is very convenient, but it also cuts off with 503s if my quota is exceeded and I won't get a nasty bill at the end of the month for stuff I can live without.

A little while ago I made an Ask HN [1] that didn't get much traction where I described all the desirable features I wanted, to seek an alternative for Google App Engine. Is there a comparable Paas/FaaS that has a free or cheap tier, and a no-cost quota cutoff?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13504712

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Re:Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching yo... by nickbauman on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @10:43AM (#13696293)
Not really. AppEngine is unique in this way. It has a combination of features and constraints that make it very difficult to replicate what it can do elsewhere. GAE is a product not just a collection of APIs.

The closest thing to AppEngine out there is ElasticBeanstalk and Heroku, which resemble each other far more than they resemble AppEngine. Good luck.

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Re:Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching yo... by maartendb on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @11:12AM (#13696552)
AppEngine doesn't support php7. Call me old fashioned but that's a show stopper for me.
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Re:Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching yo... by nickbauman on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @11:22AM (#13696660)
You are, indeed, old fashioned. But GAE has a Java SDK, so you can run PHP on GAE after all.

https://github.com/collegeman/php-in-java

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