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Convox
Company blog · convox.com/blogprogrammingweb
Convox is the company blog at convox.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2015, 43 different Hacker News readers have linked it 105 times, most often “Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Deploy and scale applications in your own AWS, GCP, Azure, or DigitalOcean account. Heroku-simple workflows on Kubernetes, without lock-in. Start free.
Most-linked posts?
- Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes17 people · 21 mentions · first linked 2015-08-01
- /8 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2015-10-15
- /3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2015-11-04
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-10-19
- True Containerized Development with Convox Code Sync3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-06-16
- Challenges of Deployment to ECS2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-04-29
- The Challenges of EFS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-16
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-01
- Convox: Docker deployments to AWS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-30
- 12 factor apps revisited2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-23
What Hacker News says?
If you're looking for the simplicity of Heroku but want to run on raw AWS check out Convox. It's open source and free to try. https://convox.com Disclosure: I'm one of the cofounders
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on “Ask HN: Is S3 down?”Submitted Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes as a story · 298 points
HN discussionDone and done. I was pleasantly surprised to see my ECS tips already linked. I hope I can remix this knowledge for the guide! https://convox.com/blog/ecs-challenges/
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on “Open Guide to Amazon Web Services”Submitted Challenges of Deployment to ECS as a story · 80 points
HN discussionI run a Dockerized monolithic application in ECS, and I'll be switching to Kubernetes soon. I am 100% sold on this approach and will never go back to any deployment methods that I've used in the past (Capistrano, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Saltstack, etc.) I use Convox [1] which makes everything extremely simple and easy to set up on any Cloud provider. They have some paid options, but their convox/rack [2] project is c…
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on “Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?”Submitted A Tale of Two Onboardings as a story · 54 points
HN discussionNo-one has mentioned Convox yet: https://convox.com Kubernetes is great, but Convox is way easier to set up. It's much closer to having Heroku in your own AWS account. It also leverages a lot of AWS services (ECS, RDS, etc.) instead of re-inventing the wheel. The only downside is that it only supports AWS. I'd recommend Convox for personal projects, but it can be a bit expensive because you have to run a minimum of…
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on “Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects”Submitted Deploying with Buildpacks as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSan Francisco, Atlanta, Miami and Sheffield UK. Distributed team so REMOTE encouraged. Convox (YC S15) is hiring support and system engineers to help us build out simple and reliable open source dev ops tools and platform. The cofounders are ex-Heroku bringing tons of experience in dev tools and operations to share with everyone. Interview process involves short hangouts to meet the team, then a paid contract starte…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted AWS ALB Review – The Container and Microservice Load Balancer as a story · 23 points
HN discussionThe 'convox start' dev environment enables Rails dev on Docker for Mac with a custom file sync strategy. This is another case of simple solutions win... You can effectively rsync code changes without all the low level file system madness. https://convox.com/blog/bidirectional-sync/
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on “Docker for Mac and Windows Is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production”Submitted Convox Rack 0.6: One-Off Processes, Visibility, and Stability as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSan Francisco, Atlanta and Sheffield UK. Distributed team so REMOTE encouraged. Convox, YC S15, is hiring support and system engineers to help us build out simple and reliable open source devops tools and platform. Us cofounders are ex Heroku bringing tons of experience in dev tools and operations to share with everyone. Interview process involves short hangouts to meet the team, then a paid contract starter project…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted Convox: Docker deployments to AWS as a story · 18 points
HN discussionConvox for AWS: https://convox.com/
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on “Hyper.sh – Effortless Docker Hosting”Submitted True Containerized Development with Convox Code Sync as a story · 10 points
HN discussionIf you're okay with AWS, check out https://convox.com/
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on “Hyper.sh – Effortless Docker Hosting”Submitted The True Cost of Running Kubernetes in the Cloud as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI definitely agree that better tutorials and/or a simpler interface would makes AWS more accessible and user friendly. A YC S15 startup, Convox ( http://convox.com/ ), aims to "make AWS as easy as using Heroku." It looks really promising.
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on “AWS mistakes to avoid”Submitted Docker in Production for 18 Months as a story · 9 points
HN discussionCheck out http://convox.com/ (YC S15) for an alternative to avoiding manual infrastructure.
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on “AWS mistakes to avoid”Submitted Convox (YC S15) adds EFS support for stateful containers as a story · 8 points
HN discussionConvox (YC S15) is hiring a Solutions Engineer. Convox is an open-source, private PaaS that runs in your own AWS account. http://www.convox.com You can read the full job description here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/g0o2dv9j7nsg8gi/ConvoxSolutionsEng...
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)”Submitted The Challenges of EFS as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI'm working on FormAPI [1] as a solo founder. I started on Heroku, but Heroku was a bit unreliable and I had some random outages that I couldn't predict or control. (This was even while using dynos in their professional tier.) I also had a lot of free AWS credits, so I migrated to AWS. I didn't want to write all my terraform templates from scratch, so I spent a lot of time looking for something that already existed,…
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on “Ask HN: How do you make sure your servers are up as a single founder?”Submitted AWS Integration as a story · 5 points
HN discussionDid anyone checkout https://convox.com/ - which is a more direct alternative to Heroku?
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on “An Open Source, Self-Hosted Heroku”Submitted The Open Source Evolution as a story · 5 points
HN discussion+1 for convox ( https://convox.com/ ) we've been using it successfully for a number of our clients - it's easy to setup and run.
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on “An Open Source, Self-Hosted Heroku”Submitted Convox (YC S15) announces our multi-cloud platform built on Kubernetes as a story · 4 points
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