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Clever Cloud vs Empire: What are the differences?
Clever Cloud: Deploy and run apps with bulletproof infrastructure, automatic scaling, and fair pricing. Clever Cloud is a polyglot cloud application platform. The service helps developers to build applications with many languages and services, with auto-scaling features and a true pay-as-you-go pricing model; Empire: A Self-Hosted PaaS Built on Docker and Amazon ECS. Empire is a control layer on top of Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) that provides a Heroku like workflow. It conforms to a subset of the Heroku Platform API, which means you can use the same tools and processes that you use with Heroku, but with all the power of EC2 and Docker.
Clever Cloud and Empire can be categorized as "Platform as a Service" tools.
Empire is an open source tool with 2.53K GitHub stars and 156 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Empire's open source repository on GitHub.
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Pros of Clever Cloud
- Quick & easy setup147
- Amazing support104
- Ultra fast answer to any question87
- Github integration82
- Time saver74
- Fast apps66
- Cool admin interface62
- Postgresql as a service51
- Receive email from the ceo when one of my process crash43
- Easy deployment of playframework33
- Autoscale nodejs processes20
- Easy nodejs deployment19
- Don't need devops in our team16
- Great service15
- Elegant and convenient paas and great support12
- Easy mongodb backup11
- Great customer support11
- Easiest scala / playframework setup i have seen10
- Really great and usefull product with an amazing team9
- Awesome docker support8
- Quick & easy to start to use8
- Git push and it's prodded7
- Up & running with Node in minutes7
- Deploy with docker6
- Easy setup with great customer support6
- Superficial support team5
- Amazing experience - after using heroku, nodejitsu, etc5
- Really safe,quick and responsive! probably best one4
- Customer support is awesome4
- More than efficient scaler3
- Clean interface3
- My devs like it which means I like it! Great support3
- KISS principle3
- Easy setup, CTO and team influencers2
- Easy setup and deploy for play framework and scala2
- Amazing Gif Generator2
- No-brainer, efficient, never gets in the way2
- Great docker support, just via web + git2
- They are a pleasure to work with2
- Awesome support and easy to use..! using laravel (php)2
- Haskell support without worries2
- Easy deployment2
- Top notch support by developer peers2
- No code integration needed2
- Auto redeploy after git push2
- Manage ops parts for me1
- They accept bitcoin1
- Ffmpeg available for nodejs servers1
- Simple to use, brilliant team, super reliable1
- Reported bugs are fixed during the following hour1
- Online postgresql admin gui1
- Too much powered servers and add-ons1
- Fast deployment time1
Pros of Empire
- 12-factor methodology1
- Open source1
- BSD License1
- Easy deployment1
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Cons of Clever Cloud
- Super expensive2
- Not a whole lot of flexibility1
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What is Clever Cloud?
Clever Cloud is a polyglot cloud application platform. The service helps developers to build applications with many languages and services, with auto-scaling features and a true pay-as-you-go pricing model.
What is Empire?
Empire is a control layer on top of Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) that provides a Heroku like workflow. It conforms to a subset of the Heroku Platform API, which means you can use the same tools and processes that you use with Heroku, but with all the power of EC2 and Docker.
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What are some alternatives to Clever Cloud and Empire?
Heroku
Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.
DigitalOcean
We take the complexities out of cloud hosting by offering blazing fast, on-demand SSD cloud servers, straightforward pricing, a simple API, and an easy-to-use control panel.
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
Amazon EC2
It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.