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Re:How to Deploy .NET Apps to Private PaaS on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @04:28PM (#4225973)
Stackato v2.0 now supports *nix and .Net applications - here are the release notes for everything that V2.0 includes http://docs.stackato.com/reference/release-notes.html
Cloudsoft CTO Alex Heneveld and ActiveState's Diane Mueller demonstrate how to run applications in hybrid clouds using Stackato -- ActiveState's Platform-as-a-Service for private clouds -- and two open source projects: brooklyn (a control plane for distributed applications) and jclouds (multi-cloud library that helps deploy Stackato in multiple clouds). The demonstration showcases using Open Source tools to do a hybrid cloud that spans both the HP Cloud and Amazon`s AWS.

Hybrid cloud deployments of Stackato using jclouds & Brooklyn

http://www.activestate.com/blog/2012/06/video-hybrid-cloud-stackato-deployments-using-jclouds-brooklyn

Cloudsoft CTO Alex Heneveld and ActiveState's Diane Mueller demonstrate how to run applications in hybrid clouds via Stackato (Platform as a Service) using two open source projects: brooklyn (a control plane for distributed applications) and jclouds (multi-cloud library that helps deploy Stackato in multiple clouds). The demonstration showcases a hybrid cloud that spans both the HP Cloud and...

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Thinking of migrating off Heroku? this is the way to go. bring your buildpacks and get stackato http://bit.ly/STKTO
Re:Amazon EC2 down? on Monday June 18, 2012 @12:43PM (#4127266)
and on the other hand, check out the http://status.appfog.com/ page (hint: it doesn't exist)
Re:Heroku down? on Monday June 18, 2012 @12:24PM (#4127164)
appfog.com also has outages as well - http://blog.appfog.com/october-27th-downtime-postmortem/ - when going with public cloud, your app's well being is always in 3rd party hands. If you want to mitigate the risk, host your own private PaaS on your own infrastructure - then you can only point your finger at yourself when outages occur.
Re:How to deploy private PaaS on CloudStack on Monday May 28, 2012 @04:44PM (#4034866)
Check out how easy it was to do this now that CloudStack has added an awesome browser based console with it's new Template & Instance building wizards.
Here's my post on deploying a PaaS layer on EC2 http://www.activestate.com/blog/2012/04/getting-started-priv... and a link to the documenation http://docs.stackato.com/

that ought to get you started pretty quickly if you run into trouble, come to the irc #stackato on freenode

The Heroku Buildpack support makes it wickedly easy to move your apps from Heroku to your own Private Clouds
Re:Jelastic - Holy Grail of Java Hosting? (user review) on Monday March 19, 2012 @03:04PM (#3725577)
Totally agreed, that's why ActiveState's Stackato (which also supports Java) has a free micro cloud. The Micro Cloud is a stand-alone instance of the Stackato system running in a single VM. This lets you push your apps to an environment that is functionally identical to a full PaaS cluster. ActiveState Stackato gives you 3 ways to test your application (1) on a Stackato Micro Cloud, (2) with an Amazon EC2 AMI or (3) on their Private Stackato Sandbox Service. check it out at http://activestate.com/cloud
Re:Dear Github, please fix the Watch-Button on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @11:38AM (#3643747)
How about a "Deploy" button instead, Yes I like to "Watch, and "Share" is oh so social, but what would be much more useful is a "Deploy" button that would take requirement.txt, config.pl, manifest.yml and all those other artifacts, read them, and help me get the app running on the server, the instance or cloud. I can deal with the constant notifications that come with "watching" a github repository - what I want is a simpler path to Deployment.
Re:Startup Row Winners for PyCon 2012 announced on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @02:48PM (#3622194)
yahoo! consumernotebook.com is on StartUp Row at Pycon!
Re:AppHarbor (YC W11) announces pricing on Friday February 03, 2012 @04:00PM (#3548976)
<rant> Why (when you could deploy your own PaaS layer on just about any Cloud hosting provider from Amazon to Rackspace on any hyper-visor) are people still insisting on paying public PaaS vendors to re-sell them computing hours and lock them into their proprietary platforms - when will people wake up and see that Heroku, AppHarbor, and all the rest are just locking you in and getting your addicted to services! Just once, test out deploying cloud foundry or better yet deploy activestate's stackato (built on cloud foundry) onto the cloud hosting provider and run your own private PaaS http://community.activestate.com/stackato </rant>
Re:The 57,000 Page Tax Return on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @09:22PM (#3272736)
If you'd really like to dive deep into GE's filing try taking at look at it as a tagged XML file using XBRL at http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/viewer?action=view&cik=40554&...

You can also download the data as an Excel Spreadsheet - they may obfuscate as much as they want - but if you start leveraging the XBRL tags - you can automate search for that incriminating needle in a haystack...

This is what the SEC auditors are doing these days1

Re:Cloud Foundry Adds PHP and Python on Thursday August 25, 2011 @01:54PM (#2925784)
Stackato is in restricted beta right now. Here are some invite codes for anyone who'd like to try it out:

AS-HN-ZJLH2P0IM0

AS-HN-6ZU3V9B36T

AS-HN-FDQQIGL19N

AS-HN-SDNQWQ3QTZ

AS-HN-RDRMNWQKB6

AS-HN-V4HT1LQURL

AS-HN-PUBZEVU2Q9

AS-HN-HQGDL45WKH

AS-HN-AR61S65DYQ

AS-HN-NRRQTIE9KN

Go to http://tinyurl.com/stackatoinvite to redeem your code.

They're one-time use only, so if one doesn't work for you, try another one. If you miss out, you can request an invite code here: http:///www.activestate.com/cloud

Re:ActiveState Moves Stackato Cloud Platform to Beta on Thursday July 14, 2011 @01:49PM (#2764092)
Getting ready to create my own Private PaaS with the Stackato Beta this morning, looking forward to testing out the postgres support
it's "Stackato" with a "c" ;-) #stackato #cfoundry