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scholarslab / prism

Prism is a tool for collective interpretation. It's an ongoing experiment by the Praxis Program at the University of Virginia Scholars' Lab
http://prism.scholarslab.org/
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Move away from Heroku #318

Closed waynegraham closed 7 years ago

waynegraham commented 9 years ago

Heroku is an amazing platform and has served this project well over the years. However, they are now shifting their pricing model (https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/5/7/new-dyno-types-public-beta). Because of state bureaucracy, we can't purchase services from them in this new model, and we need to have a discussion on what to do next.

There are a few options I see:

  1. Shut it down. It's been a good run, but there hasn't been active development of any significant new features in the last two years. This makes is a maintenance project with diminishing returns. There is still quite a bit of use of the tool from the K-12 folks, but this still hasn't spurred much activity as time constraints and life in general get in the way. An option worth discussing further.
  2. Deploy this application to another service. appfog and openshift both provide a free tier. However, each of these has some constraints which would need to be considered in a migration.
  3. Community sponsorship...some of you all have real jobs now.

There are probably others (which I'd love to hear), but wanted to start a discussion before this comes crashing down and the service just goes away.

Wayne

drosboro commented 9 years ago

I'm interested in helping with option #3. Depending on current traffic levels, I may be able to help with hosting with my existing servers. I've sent you an email to discuss further.

walshbr commented 7 years ago

Closed b/c we've moved to Capistrano, which, as I understand it, is meant to address this.