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FREE Hosting for Facebook & OpenSocial Developers - Social App Program

Posted by arungupta on July 23, 2008 at 6:44 AM PDT

Are you developing Facebook and/or OpenSocial applications ?

Would you like to deploy them and monetize before spending any money on infrastructure ?

Social App Program is a new collaborative offering from Sun Microsystems and Joyent that allows you to do exactly that! It allows you to leverage Scalability and Cost-effectiveness of Joyent's cloud powered by OpenSolaris on Sun's renowned reliable servers and storage for deploying critical applications. And all this completely FREE for 12 months.

This program is also accompanied with FREE Sun-Joyent Social Developer Days planned for 8 cities (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver, Chicago, Boston, New York and Austin/Dallas) in the US later this year to learn and get hands-on experience on writing applications which can scale to million of users. Learn how to architect, develop and deploy web-scale applications on Cloud infrastructure.

All details are available here. Also read the official press release.

FREE infrastructure with FREE training for YOU to write Facebook/OpenSocial apps - cool!

Is yours a startup company and under-equipped on infrastructure ? Join Startup Essentials today for FREE and discounted enterprise-class software, discounted partner hosting & storage and much more - apply online and membership FREE! Very minimal eligibility requirements and you can join inside the US or outside the US.

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Submitted by brew on Fri, 2008-07-25 14:08.
I am glad to see Java is supported!

Submitted by lauraventura on Thu, 2008-07-24 18:51.
(1) That's correct. This free hosting offer is available for 12 months. After 12 months, you can sign up for one of the Joyent plans (http://www.joyent.com/accelerator/pricing), or you can become a Sun Startup Essentials member* (requirements apply) and enjoy deep discounts for hosting services, or for Sun servers (priced as low as $750). Sun Startup Essential membership is absolutely free. (2) Java is also supported. We'll make sure it's communicated more clearly on the Joyent's website. * For startups with fewer than 150 employees and less than 3 years old.

Submitted by brew on Wed, 2008-07-23 13:06.
It sounds very exciting. But after I took a look, it seems: (1) free for one year (2)Java is not supported - that is surprising because Sun is involving. PHP, Rails, and Python are on the list.




 

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