Anynines vs AppHarbor

AppHarbor vs Anynines: What are the differences?

Developers describe AppHarbor as "Instantly deploy and scale .NET applications". AppHarbor is a fully hosted .NET Platform as a Service. AppHarbor can deploy and scale any standard .NET application to the cloud. On the other hand, Anynines is detailed as "A Comprehensive Cloud Platform Solution". It is an upcoming PaaS written in Ruby. A hosting that grows with your apps Many developers put pet apps to PaaS providers, yet introducing larger installations is often way too expensive and complicated.

It’s goals is to make PaaS both affordable and compliant to European privacy laws..

AppHarbor and Anynines can be primarily classified as "Platform as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by AppHarbor are:

• 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.

On the other hand, Anynines provides the following key features:

• Scalable
• Pay as you go
• European privacy laws