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mikefilonov

PharoCloud drops VM hosting and focuses on Ephemeric Cloud

Hello,

I just wanted to make some clarifications on what is going on with PharoCloud and how I see the future of the project.

PharoCloud is not closing, but just dropping VM hosting support. We will continue to develop and maintain Ephemeric Cloud which allows you to publish Pharo web applications online much easier than any other VM hosting can offer. In some way PharoCloud just becomes more "cloudy" by dropping outdated technologies off :)

Our plan is to make the project more community oriented. We integrated PharoCloud with Pharo.org SSO and provide FREE access to all Pharo Association members. You are welcome to log in to the cloud with your Pharo Association account at:

https://www.pharocloud.com/manager/connect

We are encouraging you to migrate your applications hosted as Pharocloud VMs to the Ephemeric Cloud. It is much more simple! We have some positive experience already. There are some examples I moved from VM hosting to Ephemeric Cloud:

http://pharo.pharocloud.com
http://seaside31.swarm.pharocloud.com/
http://eph-b147b6e2.swarm.pharocloud.com/
http://smalltalk.mikefilonov.ru/

Here you can find a quick start guide to Ephemeric cloud and some tips on how to publish your app: http://docs.swarm.pharocloud.com/article/getting_started

Also there is a REST API you can use to manage the cloud. And there is also a Pharo wrapper around the REST-API:
http://docs.swarm.pharocloud.com/article/pharo_library_reference

We also have video guides:
quickstart (sorry for old UI of the manager) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1GfuT9M4qo
curl example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dKBCpj96cU

In case of any questions or issues with images, please feel free to contact me.

Ben Coman

Re: PharoCloud drops VM hosting and focuses on Ephemeric Cloud

On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 6:59 AM, mikefilonov <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello,

I just wanted to make some clarifications on what is going on with
PharoCloud and how I see the future of the project.

PharoCloud is not closing, but just dropping VM hosting support. We will
continue to develop and maintain Ephemeric Cloud which allows you to publish
Pharo web applications online much easier than any other VM hosting can
offer. In some way PharoCloud just becomes more "cloudy" by dropping
outdated technologies off :)

Thanks for the clarification Mike.

Our plan is to make the project more community oriented. We integrated
PharoCloud with Pharo.org SSO and provide *FREE* access to all *Pharo
Association* members.

You should remind us of this more often, maybe once a month. Its a great offer, but I'm not ready right now to try it, and in a few months I'll have forgotten.

Or better, the Association should post here a monthly promotion flyer/newletter that lists deals like this.

cheers -ben

Denis Kudriashov

Re: PharoCloud drops VM hosting and focuses on Ephemeric Cloud

In reply to this post by mikefilonov

Hi Mike.

Do you plan to support custom ports?

It would be very interesting to support remote development. Imaging EphemericInstance will able to open browser, playground and debugger.

2017-06-09 0:59 GMT+02:00 mikefilonov <[hidden email]>:

Hello,

I just wanted to make some clarifications on what is going on with
PharoCloud and how I see the future of the project.

PharoCloud is not closing, but just dropping VM hosting support. We will
continue to develop and maintain Ephemeric Cloud which allows you to publish
Pharo web applications online much easier than any other VM hosting can
offer. In some way PharoCloud just becomes more "cloudy" by dropping
outdated technologies off :)

Our plan is to make the project more community oriented. We integrated
PharoCloud with Pharo.org SSO and provide *FREE* access to all *Pharo
Association* members. You are welcome to log in to the cloud with your Pharo
Association account at:

https://www.pharocloud.com/manager/connect

We are encouraging you to migrate your applications hosted as Pharocloud VMs
to the Ephemeric Cloud. It is much more simple! We have some positive
experience already. There are some examples I moved from VM hosting to
Ephemeric Cloud:

http://pharo.pharocloud.com
http://seaside31.swarm.pharocloud.com/
http://eph-b147b6e2.swarm.pharocloud.com/
http://smalltalk.mikefilonov.ru/

Here you can find a quick start guide to Ephemeric cloud and some tips on
how to publish your app:
http://docs.swarm.pharocloud.com/article/getting_started

Also there is a REST API you can use to manage the cloud. And there is also
a Pharo wrapper around the REST-API:
http://docs.swarm.pharocloud.com/article/pharo_library_reference

We also have video guides:
quickstart (sorry for old UI of the manager)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1GfuT9M4qo
curl example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dKBCpj96cU

In case of any questions or issues with images, please feel free to contact
me.

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mikefilonov

Re: PharoCloud drops VM hosting and focuses on Ephemeric Cloud

Hi Denis,

Yes, the support for custom ports is on the top of my list.

Mike

Yuriy Mironenko

Re: PharoCloud drops VM hosting and focuses on Ephemeric Cloud

In reply to this post by mikefilonov

I have a feeling that I miss something.

As far as I remember, Ephemerics have no possibility to store anything permanently.
So is it for static applications only?

2017-06-09 1:59 GMT+03:00 mikefilonov <[hidden email]>:

Hello,

I just wanted to make some clarifications on what is going on with
PharoCloud and how I see the future of the project.

PharoCloud is not closing, but just dropping VM hosting support. We will
continue to develop and maintain Ephemeric Cloud which allows you to publish
Pharo web applications online much easier than any other VM hosting can
offer. In some way PharoCloud just becomes more "cloudy" by dropping
outdated technologies off :)

Our plan is to make the project more community oriented. We integrated
PharoCloud with Pharo.org SSO and provide *FREE* access to all *Pharo
Association* members. You are welcome to log in to the cloud with your Pharo
Association account at:

https://www.pharocloud.com/manager/connect

We are encouraging you to migrate your applications hosted as Pharocloud VMs
to the Ephemeric Cloud. It is much more simple! We have some positive
experience already. There are some examples I moved from VM hosting to
Ephemeric Cloud:

http://pharo.pharocloud.com
http://seaside31.swarm.pharocloud.com/
http://eph-b147b6e2.swarm.pharocloud.com/
http://smalltalk.mikefilonov.ru/

Here you can find a quick start guide to Ephemeric cloud and some tips on
how to publish your app:
http://docs.swarm.pharocloud.com/article/getting_started

Also there is a REST API you can use to manage the cloud. And there is also
a Pharo wrapper around the REST-API:
http://docs.swarm.pharocloud.com/article/pharo_library_reference

We also have video guides:
quickstart (sorry for old UI of the manager)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1GfuT9M4qo
curl example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dKBCpj96cU

In case of any questions or issues with images, please feel free to contact
me.

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View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/PharoCloud-drops-VM-hosting-and-focuses-on-Ephemeric-Cloud-tp4950562.html
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mikefilonov

Re: PharoCloud drops VM hosting and focuses on Ephemeric Cloud

Hi Yuriy,

>So is it for static applications only?

Short answer is "no".

The ephemeric cloud only restricts saving files to local disk. This means, only Image persistence is not working with Ephemeric cloud.

However, any other form of persistence works. You can connect Images in Ephemeric cloud to databases (ex.: http://docs.swarm.pharocloud.com/article/usecase_do_mongo ), file stores, REST API services... Basically, in ephemeric cloud only code is static, but data is not.

If you have a concrete use case, contact me at support@pharocloud.com (or in pharo discordapp chat) and we can discuss options for you project.