Most Developers Havent Seen PaaS
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Hykes noted that he believes PaaS
has been available primarily to a small sector of the developer community.
Ninety-nine percent of all developers have not seen PaaS; its still too
elitist. However, dotCloud is working to lower the barrier to entry. One way
is through pricing, and the other is by keeping things simple.
In June, dotCloud announced the
availability of dotCloud Sandbox, dotCloud Live, dotCloud Enterprise, three new
flavors of development environments that provide unlimited development, elastic
pricing, and the ability to scale applications with enterprise-class service
and supportall through a single account.
dotCloud Sandbox is a supported,
unlimited environment for development, testing and experimentation. With it,
developers can design and develop multiple applications in a single environment
for free. dotCloud Live delivers reliability and easy scaling. dotCloud Lives
elastic pricing is based on resource consumption and enables developers to
start as low as $4.32 per month and reasonably scale to an enterprise-class
software as a service (SaaS), supporting millions of uniques for a few thousand
dollars. And dotCloud Enterprise is a highly customized environment to meet the
specific needs of an organizations application and users, including white-glove
support and in-depth monitoring from dotClouds team, the company said.
"Developing in sandbox mode
really lets me dig in and play with my code in a way I never could before, Neil
Giararantana, president of Lucidus, said in a statement. I'm able to duplicate
any configuration in sandbox mode to create a whole new version of my Websitenot
a new instancebut a whole new version of my site for testing with just 20
lines of code. And that testing site is up and running immediately, and it's
totally free."
dotCloud's new pricing model is
definitely cheaper for Newlio over the original, instance-based model, said
Richard Safran, CTO of Newlio, in a statement. It also gives us more
flexibility to scale since instances are effectively free, and we can then
spread a little more memory over more instances.
"When we launched a year ago,
nobody used PaaS for mission-critical applications and we designed our pricing
accordingly, Hykes said. A year later, everything has changed and the market
has grown incredibly. We are talking to real businesses looking to deploy real,
mission-critical apps.
"They expect support, they
expect guarantees and they expect control over their stack. They are asking: 'Can
I rely on you for the long term?' That is what ultimately will differentiate
trustworthy PaaS providers from the rest. And that is what our new pricing
enables," he said.
Hykes added that this level of
support and commitment is what differentiates dotCloud and is what will enable
the company to compete with much larger, more established competitors.
