Free Facebook Dev Program
Calling All Facebook Developers!
Joyent has teamed up with Sun Startup Essentials and Facebook to offer Facebook developers with an optimized Joyent Launch Accelerator free for one year**. The Facebook specific Joyent Launch Accelerator is a shared platform running on the Joyent Accelerator Cloud. This platform has been configured to make it simply the fastest and easiest (not to mention, most affordable) way to develop and deploy your Facebook application.
The program has been designed to minimize the sys-admin skills needed to kick-start and manage your web application. There is no need to become or invest time being a sys-admin. All you need to do is code your killer Facebook application and deploy.
The Joyent Launch Accelerator for Facebook does not give you root access. If you do need the added flexibility of root access please review the Joyent Public Cloud offering.
What You Get
* One Joyent Launch per Facebook account with a single SSH/SFTP login
* One MySQL and PostgreSQL login with up to 5 databases (in total) allowed, access to phpMyAdmin and phpPgAdmin tools
* 5 GiB of total disk space
* 100 GiB of monthly bandwidth
* 200 MiB of total memory available, with a 100 MiB per-process limit
* One web URL for your applicaton in the form of <username>.facebook.joyent.us (includes DNS provided by us)
* 10 ports to run processes on
* Ability to create Cron jobs and define Bootup Actions (SMF services)
* Many, many of command line utilities, editors, version control tools, etc.
Sign-up
Go here to sign-up now!
Scaling
Thinking positive, when your application does start to take off we will work with you to create an efficient plan for porting your application to the Joyent Accelerator Cloud. We have seen just about every type of scale pattern and have significant expertise that we can share on how best to leverage our Enterprise Class Infrastructure to support your highly successful application. If you would like to talk to us about upgrading to the Joyent Accelerator please enter your request at support@joyent.com.
Language and Framework Support
The Joyent Launch Accelerator is ideally suited for Ruby and PHP “out of the box”. Coming Soon – Watch for additional documentation on how to deploy Python on this platform.
For additional language and framework information please consult the Knowledge Base.
Support
Joyent provides no support for this free service. Knowledge Base is here. We also have a very helpful and knowledgeable user community on our Forum, where you can ask questions, pitch ideas and get to know other Facebook developers.
Fine Print
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