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I'd like to know your experience finding a host for play applications on free or low-cost servers

So far now I found the following options:

Do you have any experience with one of these?

Any other option you know?

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    This is not a forum. You cannot poll people for their opinions as there is no concrete answer to your question. –  Sep 20 '11 at 21:17
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    This is a reasonable question if you interpret it as 'which options exist', albeit a question that is only loosely about programming. The question should probably be 'community wiki'. – Peter Hilton Oct 19 '11 at 10:46
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    I thought, in fact I still think, it would be a useful thread, although I agree it might not be not exactly a "question", but a wiki page like peter said... – opensas Oct 20 '11 at 02:17

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I had a bad experience with GAE, as you are forced to work with their API for many things, some components don't work as GAE blacklists some package they require, etc. Also, moving from GAE to another platform can be painful.

Amazon can get expensive depending on the resources you use. I don't know about the others.

The standard option would be Playapps.net, the basic plan is cheap and it provides everything you might need.

Another alternative is to pick a cheap Linode and set it up yourself. It's a bit more expensive and more work, but better value for the bucks.

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  • oh, yes, I forgot about playapps... I guess I was more focused on free alternatives – opensas Aug 08 '11 at 13:58
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    if it's not a big deal, I would recommend spending the 10$ on Playapps.net or 20$ on Linode. Some of the services you get (backup, etc) make them worthy, and they are still relatively cheap. If it absolutely has to be free, go for GAE. You'll be kinda locked in, but it's free :) – Pere Villega Aug 08 '11 at 14:10
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    Playapps.net appears to be dead. – RLZaleski Sep 18 '14 at 21:25
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I am big fan of Cloudbees. I have hosted a few apps there and the load time is fast. Also, they have good support and a great team.

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I've just found a new free option

http://community.jboss.org/blogs/thomas.heute/2011/08/12/lets-play-on-the-red-hat-cloud-using-the-play-framework-on-openshift-express-and-jbossas7

Red hat cloud, Openshift express... I'll update the question...

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  • Note that this involves packaging the Play application as a WAR and deploying it in a Servlet container, instead of running a native Play application. – Peter Hilton Oct 19 '11 at 10:45
  • you're right, I hope red had finds a way to provide native support, I mean, netty is part of jboss stack...isn't it? – opensas Oct 20 '11 at 02:18
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another option I've just found is VmWare's cloudfondry

here is a tutorial on how to configure it for play! apps

http://iambivas.blogspot.com/2011/08/running-play-framework-application-on.html

no pricing yet, but I guess there will be an affordable option...

edit: a new module for play

module: http://www.playframework.org/modules/cloudfoundry

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an article talking about unexpensive java hosting solutions

http://veerasundar.com/blog/2009/12/hosting-java-applications-in-the-web/

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