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Platform as a ServiceWhat is AppHarbor?
AppHarbor is a fully hosted .NET Platform as a Service. AppHarbor can deploy and scale any standard .NET application to the cloud.
AppHarbor is a tool in the Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.
Key Features
You push .NET and Windows code to AppHarbor using Git, Mercurial, Subversion or Team Foundation Server with the complimentary Git service or through integrations offered in collaboration with Bitbucket, CodePlex and GitHub.When AppHarbor receives your code it will be built by a build server. If the code compiles all unit tests contained in the compiled assemblies will be run. The result and progress of the build and unit test status can be monitored on the application dashboard. AppHarbor will call any service hooks that you add to notify you of the build result.If everything checks out the application is deployed and configured on AppHarbor application servers. AppHarbor can scale an application vertically and horizontally within seconds for better request throughout, performance and failover. AppHarbor balance load across all instances running that application. Scaling an application gives higher request thoughput, redundancy in case of instance failure and better performance.
AppHarbor Pros & Cons
Pros of AppHarbor
- ✓Has a totally free account option
- ✓BitBucket integration
- ✓Document database
- ✓GitHub integration
- ✓Low cost
- ✓PostgreSQL
- ✓Relational database
- ✓Service bus
- ✓Startup friendly
- ✓Wide choice of integrations
Cons of AppHarbor
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