DotCloud might be my favorite company in 2011. It's definitely solving a big problem of mine. From account creation to production level deployment of my Django app took me less than an hour. Offloading sysadmin work has been a great pleasure for me for the last couple of days.

I just registered and am really excited. Thanks for the beta invites.

I think you should make the deploy script actually workable. Step 4 gives me:

  error: You are not allowed to create deployment in "ramen".

Maybe pick a random repo name that isn't taken already. test-<two words> or something like that.

Great idea. Let's customize that cheat sheet.

Awesome, Otto shall arrive home safely quite soon.

Though, it looks like you can't serve port 80 from nodejs? That would make it impossible to run normal web applications using node.js on dotcloud, no?

"Yes you can!"

Sorry if that's not very clear; but although your app has to run on port 8080, it will be reachable through (e.g.) http://nodechat.ramen.dotcloud.com/ (after bouncing through half a dozen internal proxies, load balancers, discarded Otto's toys, and other funky stuff that you don't want to hear about).

Fantastic. I guess you (I'm assuming you work for dotcloud) just need to make it clearer in the docs.

You're totally right. Following your advice, I added a little note to the docs. I hope it will clear up any doubt!

Does this support HTTP 1.1 and WebSockets? Many proxies don't, just wanted to check.

Right now it is behind nginx. So unfortunatly it does not work for now. But we have plans to make it work:-)

Looks pretty awesome. How long is the wait for getting into the beta? I just applied for the first time.

Keep an eye out for user shykes, he's a founder. He was handing out beta invites like candy not too long ago so, if you catch him posting again, it could happen... maybe.

Boom. http://www.dotcloud.com/account/create

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Also: http://www.dotcloud.com/account/create?invite_code=boom

I never did say thanks for pushing my beta up. If I'd known that you'd appear whenever I invoked your name though, I would have figured out a way to sell these invites. ;-)

I spotted this in the docs yesterday when I was looking to deploy a NodeJS app I was playing with. I kept getting an error suggesting nodes wasn't recognised as a deployment type. Do I need to upgrade my installed version of the Dotcloud software?

It was not active for everybody yesterday and we pushed the docs a bit early:-)

It will work without an upgrade.

This would only add to the excitement and enthusiasm currently around Node.js . I've been planning to use node.js for a feature on my product (I am on the appengine and what I want to build does not fit into the GAE philosophy). Node.js seems simple and I've been trying to set it up on AWS. I guess I'll give dotcloud a try too.

Congrats to the DotCloud team. I am following the developments since the launch about 3 mounth ago. The stack is really impressive and NodeJS is an important addition.

DotCloud is definitely interesting, but I am somewhat concerned about the lack of prices on their homepage (there is not much point in doing business with a company without knowing their price) as well as the signup for their beta - I don't (yet) know what language I would write the code in, as that would depend of the actual usage pattern of the software so I can't sign up?

Anyway I will add this to the list of things to look at at some later point.