The placeholder app that comes with the stack is TodoMVC [1] and the one used to demonstrate git deploy setup after that is Telescope [2].

[1] https://github.com/addyosmani/todomvc [2] https://github.com/SachaG/Telescope

You can learn more about the service on the home page - http://stackful.io. There's a short video introduction that might be helpful.

As far as Node.js is concerned, Stackful.io [http://stackful.io ] provides an easy (and low-cost) way to deploy and scale your app on Digital Ocean SSD servers.

Meteor support is coming next week, and Rails will follow shortly.

(Disclaimer: I do work at Stackful.io)

Your 8$/month plan brings a tear to my eye. My ONLY gripe against Heroku is the lack of a hard drive to save things in, for example user uploads, etc.

Does Stackful offer the hard drive to use as we please? If so, you just got yourself a customer. (As soon as you support Rails)

Yep. You have your app running on a Digital Ocean virtual instance and all resources there are yours.

The $8 plan, for example, offers 20 GB SSD storage, and this includes files and database.

You can sign up, so we can notify you when Rails support is ready.

Thanks! Yes, we will definitely support Rails soon (several weeks). We are working hard to make all major stacks available.

Digital Ocean have been great so far, support and problem solving experience are amazing. Hopefully your problem will get fixed quickly.

Fixed. Thanks!

Also the only VCPU that is pluralized on your pricing page is the 1 VCPU under the 16gb plan.

Fixed, thanks a bunch!

Unfortunately, the problem with freemium is that at the end paying customers have to sponsor the free accounts.

And in most cases providers do as much as possible to lock you in, so you don't switch to a cheaper option when you reach certain size.

On the other hand, we want customers to know that they can leave us whenever they need to. Your apps are completely portable, so there is no reason not to give it a try.

Thank you!

Feedback and feature requests are welcome.

how about custom domain? Where can see/vote feature request publicly?

Feature request / voting is now enabled on our site. All ideas and feedback are more than welcome!

Thank you so much! Good luck with Commando.io!

Our team is located in Europe.

Great post, btw.

Unfortunately, there is a problem with DO Amsterdam location.

"The 512MB and 1GB sizes are currently not available in the Amsterdam region due to RIPE IPv4 restrictions and limited availability of IP space."