After three months of development and testing we are pleased to announce that Go is open for beta access on our platform. This very powerful language is mainly developped by Google. Go concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines.

You can find more information on Go deployments in our documentation. Do not hesitate to give us your impressions.

We believe that a product is never complete without the feedback of its users, so Go is currently in free beta until the final version.

You can keep in touch to get the pricing plans when ready on our mailinglist.

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Après quatre mois de développement et de tests intensifs, nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer que Go est en beta gratuite sur Clever Cloud. Ce langage puissant est principalement développé par Google. La concurrence de Go permet d’écrire des programmes qui tirent le meilleur des machines multicoeur et des architectures en réseau.

Vous trouverez plus d’informations sur les déploiements Go dans notre documentation. N’hésitez pas à nous faire part de vos impressions.

Nous considérons qu’un produit n’est jamais parfait sans les retours de ses utilisateurs. Go est donc actuellement en beta gratuite jusqu’à sa version finale.

Vous pouvez vous tenir informé de nos offres quand elles seront prêtes via notre newsletter.

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UPDATE: This article is a little bit old, but some users decided to write a more recent documentation here on how to deploy a Ghost blog on Clever Cloud

1. Retrieve Ghost files

In order to download Ghost files, just visit this page : https://en.ghost.org/download/

Extract the file and put the folder in your favorite place.

2. Open an account on Clever Cloud

Just visit the signup page and follow the steps.

3. Create an application

Add a Node.js application.

More information available in our documentation : http://doc.clever-cloud.com/clever-cloud-overview/add-application/

4. Create a File System Bucket

Let’s store the data!

When you deploy an application, a new instance is created. If you do not persist content files like articles and images, you will lose them between two deployments.

In order to store these files, we have created FS (File System) buckets.

Just add one in the services section.

More information can be found in our documentation : https://doc.clever-cloud.com/databases-and-services/fs-buckets/

You will receive the credentials by email. At the root of the application, create a clevercloud/buckets.json file with the following structure:

[
  {
    "bucket" : "bucketId",
    "folder" : "/content"
  }
]

It tells the application to use the files located in the content directory in the FS Bucket.

With the FTP credentials, upload the files located in your local content folder to the remote FTP folder. At the root of the FTP folder, you should have /data, /images, etc. folders.

5. Ghost Configuration

You have to tell Ghost how you would like to use it by editing the /config.js.

In both development and production sections:

• change host to 0.0.0.0
• change port to 8080

6. Deploy the application

Last operation, push the local files to the cloud!

Deploy your application on Clever Cloud is very easy. Just type the following commands:

• init the git repository : git init
• create a .gitignore file like this:

node_modules
content

• add all files: git add .
• commit: git commit -m firstcommit
• push to Clever Cloud: git push <ccremoteurl> master

You can then check the logs in the left panel logs section.

Not happy with SQLite? Go MySQL

If you do not want to deal with SQLite storage, you can store your data in MySQL.

To do this, replace the following section:

database: {
  client: 'sqlite3',
  connection: {
    filename: path.join(__dirname, '/content/data/ghost-test.db')
  }
}

with:

database: {
  client: 'mysql',
  connection: {
    host: 'yourhostname',
    user: 'yourusername',
    password: 'yourpassword',
    database: 'yourdbname',
    charset: 'utf8'
  }
}

You can create a MySQL database on Clever Cloud in 5 seconds.

Want to send emails?

Ghost require external mail providers so that you can send emails. Some of them are Mailjet, Mailchimp, Mailgun or Gmail.

The following example allow you to send emails with your Gmail/Google Apps accound from Ghost :

mail: {
  transport: 'SMTP',
  fromaddress: 'myemail@address.com',
  options: {
    auth: {
      user: 'youremail@gmail.com',
      pass: 'yourpassword'
    }
  }
}

Feel free to ask us if you have any questions about this article.

After three months of development and testing we are pleased to announce that Ruby is open for beta access on our platform. This famous robust natural language syntax created by Yukihiro Matsumoto is very popular among web developers. It is therefore logical that it is available today on Clever Cloud.

We support Rack-based applications, including applications based on Rails and Sinatra.

You can find more information on Ruby on Rails deployments in our documentation. Do not hesitate to give us your impressions.

We believe that a product is never complete without the feedback of its users, so Ruby is currently in free beta until the final version.

You can keep in touch to get the pricing plans when ready on our mailinglist.

The Clever Cloud team

Deploy your application for free!

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Après quatre mois de développement et de tests intensifs, nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer que Ruby est en beta gratuite sur Clever Cloud. Ce célèbre langage robuste à la syntaxe naturelle, créé par Yukihiro Matsumoto est très prisé par les développeurs web depuis quelques années. Il est donc tout à fait logique qu’il soit disponible aujourd’hui sur Clever Cloud.

Nous supportons actuellement les applications basées sur Rack, ce qui inclut les applications basées sur Rails et Sinatra.

Vous trouverez plus d’informations sur les déploiements Ruby on Rails dans notre documentation. N’hésitez pas à nous faire part de vos impressions.

Nous considérons qu’un produit n’est jamais parfait sans les retours de ses utilisateurs. Ruby est donc actuellement en beta gratuite jusqu’à sa version finale.

Vous pouvez vous tenir informé de nos offres quand elles seront prêtes via notre newsletter.

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Npmjs.org, the Nodejs dependencies repository has recently experienced outages which have blocked every Nodejs application deployment on every server in the world which use this repository including Clever Cloud ones.

Actually, when an application is launched locally or on a PaaS like ours, the application has to download all its dependencies. If the repository server is down, the application cannot download the dependencies and the deployment fails.

In order to provide a better deployment experience, we have built our own dependencies mirror so that we do not need to use npmjs.org servers anymore when deploying applications.
Deployments are now always successful even if npmjs.org is down. Moreover, instead of downloading dependencies from the US, they are downloaded locally so applications deployments are twice faster.

A very good reason to deploy a Nodejs application on Clever Cloud!

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Npmjs.org, le dépôt officiel de dépendances Nodejs a récemment subi des interruptions qui ont bloquées les déploiements sur tous les serveurs du monde qui utilisaient ce dépôt officiel, y compris ceux de Clever Cloud.

En effet, lorsqu’une application est lancée localement ou bien sur un PaaS comme le notre, l’application doit télécharger ses dépendances sur des serveurs distants. Si le serveur contenant les dépôts de ces dépendances n’est pas disponible, l’application ne peut pas les récupérer et le déploiement échoue.

Dans le but d’améliorer le déploiement des applications Nodejs, nous avons créé notre propre mirroir de dépendances afin de ne plus avoir à utiliser de nouveau les serveurs npmjs.org lors de nos déploiements. Ces derniers ne sont donc plus tributaires des interruptions de npmjs.org. De plus, puisque les dépôts sont téléchargés de nos serveurs et non plus des Etats-Unis, les déploiements sont deux fois plus rapides.

Une bonne occasion donc de déployer dès à présent votre application Nodejs sur Clever Cloud !

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