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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AppFog (discontinued)

    Score6.6 out of 10
    N/AAppFog was a cloud-agnostic application and infrastructure management platform used to manage workloads across on-premises and third-party cloud environments. It has been discontinued.

    $0

    GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AGoDaddy supported container management and container-as-a-service products, including (since 2016) ElasticHosts and Springs.io (e.g. Elastic Containers), are discontinued under those brands as of June 2020. However, GoDaddy development services, SDKs, and other projects are now hosted at GoDaddy Engineering and some are available open source.N/A
    Pricing
    AppFog (discontinued)GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AppFog (discontinued)GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Springs.io is unlike other cloud hosting providers. Our reactive servers dynamically resize based on demand, and you only pay for your consumption, not your provisioning. This means you can save money and not sacrifice performance.
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    Features
    AppFog (discontinued)GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of AppFog (discontinued) and GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued
    Feature
    AppFog (discontinued)
    6.5
    2 Ratings
    17% below category average
    GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued
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    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability5.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration6.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation7.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication8.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery6.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    AppFog (discontinued)GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
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    User Ratings
    AppFog (discontinued)GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.6
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AppFog (discontinued)GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    It was very good to use in small scale projects. Considering the high end projects with many instances and multi-platform architectures, it is better to test before the application is deployed. I think few of the questions can be general - who are the system users and what size is the application focussing on? How much resources are required? Will the application require any additional services?
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Unlike other providers, Springs doesn’t use a pre-built container solution, instead opting for their own software built from the ground up.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Quick deployment of pre-built virtual machines
    • Some of the virtual machines also are readily available with a pack of softwares
    • Good Stability. Using it as a student, I have never experienced any downtime issues with the projects deployed on AppFog.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Container hosting, cloud virtualization
    • Elastic capacity scaling and pay-per-use billing
    • Linux kernel containerization technologies for container isolation and control
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Though it is good and easy for developers, it lacks operational activities and monitoring tools.
    • It is easy to deploy WAR on AppFog with its console but sometimes it can lack on the performance and feasibility.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Provide more options at lower costs
    • It would be nice to see that expanded out to more distributions. What would be potentially even better though is templates. Some hosts can deploy ready-to-run WordPress/Drupal sites, LAMP instances, ownCloud instances, etc. at the drop of a hat. If Springs could replicate this with their container hosting they’d immediately appeal to a much, much wider audience;
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Primarily because it used to have a good free tier earlier, which it does not anymore. It's simple, and things are available to use. Compared to it's competitors, it does has less features, but that kind of acts in its favor. That adds to the simplicity, and ease of use for a new user.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Springs is drastically cheaper than running 4 OVH servers, and a little cheaper than running nano instances on AWS.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Our project was deployed with good efficiency and easily accessible.
    • The platform was much recommeded across the groups and peers.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • In the beginning I wasn’t sure what I should set it to for my web server, so I left it. After a while the Average usage area begins showing how much resource the container is demanding and from that more adequate limits can be set.
    • Springs is drastically cheaper than running 4 OVH servers, and a little cheaper than running nano instances on AWS.
    Incentivized
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    GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued Screenshots

    Screenshot of Springs are reactive servers which scale automatically to the load. That's why you don't need to pay for unused capacity at all.