Ubicloud

Name: Ubicloud
Rating: 5.0 (3 reviews)

Open source alternative to AWS

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Open source alternative to AWS

5.0•3 reviews•

611 followers

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Ubicloud is an open source cloud that can run anywhere. Our services include compute, block storage, load balancer & firewall, managed Postgres, and GitHub runners. You can self-host our software or use our managed service to reduce your cloud costs by 3-10x.

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Hey all, we've been watching our friends launch on Product Hunt from the sidelines. Today, we're making the jump ourselves! TLDR: Ubicloud is an open source alternative to AWS. Previously, if you wanted to launch a web app on Ubicloud, you'd have to go through many hurdles. Today, we're launching our Kamal integration. This way, you can launch your web apps in an open source, portable, and cost-effective manner. We also have a special perk available to Hunters. Email us at product-hunt@ubicloud.com during our launch week and we'll set you up with credits equivalent to 15,000 free compute minutes (standard-2). We'd also love to hear your feedback about anything Ubicloud related! Why this, why now? The cloud has become too expensive. Public cloud providers have proprietary solutions that lock you in. We think the time has come for an open source and cost-effective alternative. What is Kamal? Kamal is an open source project from Basecamp that lets you deploy web apps anywhere. DHH has a great video that explains how it works here - https://kamal-deploy.org What does it mean to use Kamal with Ubicloud? Kamal lets you deploy any kind of web app that can be containerized. It still requires certain primitives from the underlying infrastructure. These include compute, database, load balancer, DNS, and certificates. We've been working for months to provide these primitives in our open source and on managed offerings. They are available starting today. Do you have any experience with building this sort of thing? Our founding team comes from Azure; and worked at Amazon and Heroku before that. We also have start-up experience. We were co-founders and founding team members at Citus Data, which was acquired by Microsoft. Ubicloud provides compute (VM), block storage, firewall & load balancer, managed PostgreSQL, and GitHub runners. Again, if you have feedback for us, we'd love to hear it. Please chime in!

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2yr ago

Stella AI

@ozgun Looks pretty amazing, will share it with the friends who are in the initial days of building. Any specific type of user that can make the most by opting for Ubicloud> BTW does "Kamal" have any connection with the flower Lotus? (Called Kamal in hindi)

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2yr ago

Ubicloud

Maker

@prad_vv - thanks a bunch! We'd expect new web apps to work best with Ubicloud + Kamal! Originally built for Rails apps, Kamal will work with any type of web app that can be containerized. On naming, DHH originally named the project MRSK. I'm guessing Maersk didn't like that, so they renamed the project. Kamal is named after the ancient Arab navigational tool used by sailors to keep course by determining their latitude via the Pole Star. https://kamal-deploy.org

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2yr ago

Sparkle

@ozgun Interesting! I'm curious about the performance of your NVMe-based PostgreSQL compared to AWS RDS. Have you done any benchmarks? Also, how do you handle automated backups and point-in-time recovery for databases?

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2yr ago

Ubicloud

Maker

@a_samueldarwin - yes we have! You can find our performance benchmarks here: https://www.ubicloud.com/docs/ma... As a quick note, we picked a working set that fit into memory in these benchmarks. So, most reads were served from memory for AWS and Ubicloud. If your working set didn't fit into memory, the performance difference would have been higher.

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2yr ago

Surfsite AI

@ozgun Congrats on launching Ubicloud!

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2yr ago

pganalyze

Excited to see Ubicloud on Product Hunt! I've worked with members of the team in the past at Citus Data and Azure, and can attest to their focus on technical excellence and building a long-lasting product. We've been using Ubicloud successfully for many months now here at pganalyze (https://pganalyze.com/), to power part of our test and deployment pipeline. It's clear that the combination of cost efficient infrastructure powered by world-class infrastructure automation can make a difference, especially when you're experiencing excessive compute costs with traditional cloud providers.

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2yr ago

Flexi Domain

Hi. Would you please be kind to explain me this product? So I am already using Hetzners VPS server that cost me $20 per month. What's the use of this tool? will it replace hetzner?

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2yr ago

Ubicloud

Maker

@baalam_flexidomain There are several differences with Hetzner depending on which layer of the stack you are looking at. - Ubicloud VMs are encrypted, with data encrypted both at rest and in transit. - You have Ubicloud Managed PostgreSQL (available as a separate service), which you can deploy alongside your application to simplify your database operations. - For deploying web apps to production, all the necessary capabilities are integrated into the same simplified same flow, from the VMs that talk securely to managed Postgres, to a DNS integrated elastic load balancer that distributes traffic across VMs, to baked in certificate management for HTTPS. - There are also a host of other features, such as granular access controls for team members (via ABAC, attribute-based access controls), larger VMs (ranging from 2-vCPUs to 60-vCPUs and 240 GB RAM), and more. More broadly though, Hetzner is great for providing the underlying compute --and we are big fans of Hetzner ourselves. At Ubicloud, we do provide the compute, but also the building blocks for easily running and deploying your application, including your database. We do all of this with open source, so you get the freedom to run your stack anywhere.

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2yr ago

💡 Bright idea

Im happy to see Ubicloud. Been through a lot trying to use AWS. Add Gmail and GitHub as signup/login alternatives.

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2yr ago

Ubicloud

Maker

@moses_omondi1 - thank you! We heard this feedback from a few people before. I'm cc'ing @enescakir, who is looking at improving our sign-in / sign-up flow as we speak.

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2yr ago

@enescakir @ozgun can we have a trial version?

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2yr ago

Ubicloud

Maker

hey @moses_omondi1 - Of course. Our product hunt launch comes with 15,000 free minutes (standard-2 equivalent) for you to try out Kamal + Ubicloud. Please email us at product-hunt@ubicloud.com and we'd be happy to apply the credit to your account! Also, if you have any questions or comments for us, please drop us a line and we'd be happy to chat anytime.

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2yr ago

Web3 Antivirus for Chrome

Hi Ozgun, congratulations on the launch! Ubicloud sounds like a game-changer for those looking for open source cloud solutions. Can you share more about the advantages of using Ubicloud's managed service over self-hosting?

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2yr ago

Ubicloud

Maker

Hi @web3_antivirus - thank you! The benefit of our managed service is that we take care of everything for you. This includes provisioning and tuning the underlying hardware for performance, regularly deploying the software for new features and security fixes, and being on-call for issues 24/7.

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2yr ago

This looks like a great project, congrats. Do you have any plans to make VMs highly available/hot migratable or is that type of workload not really the main use case for ubicloud?

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2yr ago

Ubicloud

Maker

Hi @wordifynick - thank you! We plan to provide this feature in the future, but we don't have it on our roadmap for now. Our block storage right now is served by local host through NMVe devices and we recommend using a managed database for anything that requires keeping state. We're looking at ways to provide replicated block storage, which is a prerequisite for VM migrations.

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2yr ago

@ozgun Ubicloud offers an exciting solution with its open-source cloud services and flexible hosting options, especially with the potential to significantly reduce cloud costs. The range of features like managed Postgres and GitHub runners is a great addition. I’m curious how the platform scales when handling larger, more complex workloads—any plans for expanding those capabilities?

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2yr ago

@ozgun That sounds like a solid plan for expanding your cloud services. Adding managed Kubernetes and a CloudWatch alternative should be very beneficial. Are there any particular features or capabilities you're considering for the AI service, and how do you prioritize which services to develop next?

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2yr ago

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Ubicloud (YC W24) receives high praise for its ease of use, cost savings, and continuous feature updates. Users appreciate its seamless integration into existing systems, particularly for CI workflows. The support team is noted for being top-tier, enhancing the overall user experience. Feedback highlights Ubicloud as an excellent alternative to GitHub Actions first-party runners, with users expressing satisfaction with its performance and cost-effectiveness. The product's ability to reduce cloud costs significantly is a recurring theme in user reviews.

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