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Shelly Cloud

Company blog · shellycloud.com/blogwebprogramming

Shelly Cloud is the company blog at shellycloud.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2012, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “Shelly Cloud: Heroku for Europe”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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38mentions?
15HN people?
2012–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 16 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Shelly Cloud is a hosting platform for web apps, with git-push deployment and integrated databases and file storage, linked in HN threads as a Heroku alternative, mostly for Ruby applications.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Shelly Cloud: Heroku for Europe
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2012-09-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. michalkw · 2013-04-26
    The one hosting I'd recommend is of course Shelly Cloud: https://shellycloud.com/ I'm a co-founder and I can tell you we have everything you asked for: - Super easy deployment. Just as in Heroku you just do a git push and we take care of the rest. We also offer integrated setup for databases and file storage, so deployment of Ruby applications is even more streamlined than on Heroku. - Super easy maintenance. We tak…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Best alternative to Heroku?”
  2. grk · 2013-09-04

    Submitted Life of an HTTP Request as a story · 66 points

    HN discussion
  3. 1non · 2013-02-17
    try: https://shellycloud.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “Rails hosting that supports WebSockets?”
  4. grk · 2013-09-10

    Submitted Why GlusterFS should not be integrated with OpenStack as a story · 33 points

    HN discussion
  5. tortilla · 2014-05-23
    Never used them but have heard of them: https://shellycloud.com/

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    on “Poll: Where do you host your production environments?”
  6. michalkw · 2013-10-01

    Submitted How to integrate AngularJS with Rails 4 as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  7. grk · 2013-10-11

    Submitted Adding search and autocomplete to a Rails app with Elasticsearch as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  8. Szymon_Sz · 2014-02-21

    Submitted How you can ruin your business by choosing self-managed hosting as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  9. wijet · 2014-01-23

    Submitted Synchronize your settings with Dropbox and Mackup as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  10. bkzl · 2014-10-23

    Submitted How does our CSS architecture look like after getting rid of Bootstrap as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  11. smefju · 2013-11-29

    Submitted How to build and deploy a blog application in Padrino as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  12. wijet · 2013-10-24

    Submitted Easy database migration using Taps(-taps) as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  13. aarondf · 2015-10-12

    Submitted Shelly Cloud will shut down on March 31, 2016 as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  14. bkzl · 2013-09-25

    Submitted How to manage front-end packages in Rails with Bower as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  15. grk · 2014-01-31

    Submitted Managing assets with Rails Assets as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  16. sabcio · 2014-01-13

    Submitted Generating PDFs with custom fonts using wkhtmltopdf as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  17. grk · 2013-11-15

    Submitted Hide your staging environment from Google (in Rails) as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  18. bkzl · 2013-11-12

    Submitted When Inuit.css is a better choice than Bootstrap as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  19. sabcio · 2015-06-22

    Submitted Integrating Braintree payments with Rails as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  20. eurithiel · 2015-06-01

    Submitted Chef best practices as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  21. bkzl · 2014-02-17

    Submitted How to create a "Follow Us" pop-up box using the ngAnimate library as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  22. Szymon_Sz · 2013-12-13

    Submitted Deploying Refinery CMS in a few easy steps as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  23. michalkw · 2013-12-06

    Submitted Migrating Polish Ruby on Rails forum from PunBB to Discourse as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  24. sabcio · 2013-10-18

    Submitted Why do we need SSL certificates? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  25. sync · 2012-09-05

    Submitted Shelly Cloud: Heroku for Europe as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  26. bkzl · 2015-06-15

    Submitted How we built Ruby PaaS – Part I: Overview of our stack as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  27. bkzl · 2014-11-03

    Submitted 5 functions of the Console object you didn’t know as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  28. sabcio · 2015-04-22

    Submitted How do we perform system integration tests – intro to RSpec formatters as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. bkzl · 2015-04-14

    Submitted How I work on new features as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. smefju · 2015-03-23

    Submitted Lotus performance tested against Sinatra as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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