PaaS not cheap enough? AppFog has a deal for you!
December 19, 2012
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
How low can PaaS pricing go? AppFog says it’s cutting the price of the paid version of its polyglot, multi-cloud PaaS in half for developers. That’s great for developers, but will it boost corporate adoption? Developers love PaaSes but no one likes to spend money. So AppFog, which offers a multi-language, multi-cloud PaaS built atop a Cloud Foundry foundation, is cutting its list price in half to lure more developers to the platform.
The new option, available from AppFog’s site, costs $50 per user for 500MB to 4GB of database storage and 50GB of data transfer. In July, Portland, Ore.-based AppFog launched its ambitious cross-cloud PaaS effort including a free version for up to 2GB of RAM. Additional monthly plans with more memory started at $100 for 4G, $380 for 16GB and $720 for 32GB. The free version is still available…
Each MySQL and PostgreSQL database instance comes with 500MB of storage; each Redis and RabbitMQ instance comes with 10MB of RAM and 6 concurrent connections; free custom domains and the fastest servers from whichever cloud infrastructure the developer selects…
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