Shared hosting providers supporting RavenDB [closed]

Asked 25/1, 2012 at 2:7 Answered 17/2, 2012 at 19:24

Solved asp.net-mvc-3 shared-hosting ravendb cloud-hosting appharbor

I setup an AppHarbor application only to find out that it does not support embedded RavenDB. It looks like it may be coming soon to AppHarbor. In the mean time, all it does is throw an error as shown here.

Does anyone have any recommendations for shared hosting providers that support RavenDB? I am working on a small project, so free would be awesome (which is why I looked towards AppHarbor).

Artois answered 25/1, 2012 at 2:7 Comment(0)

You can try www.winhost.com as described here:

How can I run RavenDB in a shared hosting environment?

It has the so desired Full Trust Allowed which is something one should look for in the case of RavenDB to avoid the current security permissions problems...

NOTE: I just tried this host and can confirm that it works great with RavenDB in Full Trust... :-)

Swordsman answered 4/2, 2012 at 1:42 Comment(1)

Thanks @Leniel. In searching for PaaS providers like AppHarbor, I found out about ironfoundry.org. They too support embedded RavenDB. – Artois 4/2, 2012 at 21:12

AppHarbor now has a great RavenDB add-on from the guys at RavenHQ.

Nordine answered 17/2, 2012 at 19:24 Comment(2)

amazing... I've been waiting for that! Thank you. – Artois 17/2, 2012 at 21:22

CloudBird also offer RavenDB hosting and have an AppHarbor AddOn as well – Ainsworth 24/1, 2013 at 9:20

I have already reported and discussed the issue on the RavenDB mailing list (hint).

http://groups.google.com/group/ravendb/browse_thread/thread/af98f98a35289ad1/f9e040d8acfd0c72

You do understand that every deploy (and even possibly between deploys) that your data will be wiped/reverted to the source control version?

If that is fine and the data set is small, run RavenDB in-memory mode and seed the data to it.

Else as you mention RavenNest (hosted RavenDB for AppHarbor) is coming soon, Ayende and team are testing it internally I last heard.

Progenitor answered 25/1, 2012 at 9:16 Comment(4)

Thank @Phil. I've joined the mailing list. I wasn't aware that the data would be wiped on a new deploy. I hope RavenNest would be coming sooner than later. – Artois 25/1, 2012 at 12:8

@AdamSpicer it looks like it will be coming on the sooner side, given that they ran a design contest in October 99designs.com/web-design/contests/… – Groundling 25/1, 2012 at 23:25

@Phil, so from your google post I gather that you are using an in memory option instead of persisting the data to disk? I didn't realize that was an option. I do need to persist my data though. Are you aware of a reliable hosting provider that supports presisting RavenDB data? – Artois 26/1, 2012 at 20:16

@AdamSpicer you would have to look at shared hosting, a VPS, dedicated server or Amazon EC2/Azure. Personally, I'm not a great sysadmin and am still learning RavenDB so I'm waiting on RavenNest but I use a VPS and run RavenDB as a service. – Progenitor 27/1, 2012 at 9:43