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What is Cloud 66?

Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”.

Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with "server stuff". With the convenience of PaaS but on any cloud, and in any region, Cloud 66 has persistent storage, custom network configuration, zero downtime deployments, blue/green and canary releases, full databases support, replication & managed backups. With no team size limits, Cloud 66 offers powerful access management, traffic control, firewalls, SSL certificate management, and more.

How does it work?
Step 1: Signup for a free Cloud 66 Account
Step 2: Connect your Cloud 66 account to your git repository,
Step 3: Connect your Cloud 66 account to your cloud provider.
Step 4: Deploy!

Frameworks:
Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Jamstack (Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, Next.js, Vue.js, Nuxt.js, Svelte, Middleman, and Docusaurus), Laravel, GoLang, and more.



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Cloud 66 currently scores 85/100 in the Platform as a Service (PaaS) category. This is based on user satisfaction (94/100), press buzz (45/100), recent user trends (falling), and other relevant information on Cloud 66 gathered from around the web.

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Cloud 66 Review

Editors' Review by the Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software Review Team

Cloud 66 is an end-to-end service to build, deploy, and maintain applications on the cloud without having to deal with the potential issues of deploying onsite and offsite servers. This service enables users to deploy their infrastructure on either a public or private cloud server to deliver web services, backends, and APIs while being able to enjoy a bevy of features including persistent storage, custom network configuration, full database support, managed backups, zero downtime deployments, and limitless team sizes.

Cloud 66 gives businesses everything they need to maintain infrastructure on the cloud. This works by first connecting a user’s git repository, through either their cloud provider account, their servers, or a hybrid of the two, and then clicking “Go.” Cloud 66 leverages Linux containers to empower developers to increase efficiency, improve software development workflows, and take advantage of higher returns as a result of their investment in Cloud 66.

Cloud 66 Features

Cloud 66 comes with plenty of features that help developers build, deploy, and manage their code. These features can benefit both startups and enterprises, especially since the solution is scalable. Some of Cloud 66’s features include the following:

Deploy anywhere

Users will be able to deploy their applications on any cloud server they’re currently using, including their in-house server. The user’s server is built based on the analysis of their code and what it needs. It is also possible to deploy HAProxy servers for load balancing.

Single-click scaling

Businesses can easily scale their servers up or down with a single click when using Cloud 66. This ensures that a server can be adjusted to meet certain needs, including additional processing power or memory for company operations and services. Among the different things that can be scaled are load balancers, process servers, web servers, and database servers.

Application private networks

Using Cloud 66 allows users to use a secure private network that runs across a company’s different applications on different cloud servers. Cloud 66 integrated WireGuard into its systems, so a user’s APN can run on WireGuard and let businesses access their servers through an encrypted tunnel. Cross-cloud applications are now also possible for BYOS users.

Through the Cloud 66 APN, businesses will be able to easily connect to their servers regardless of what OS or device they’re using.

Gateway servers

Cloud 66 allows its users to control access to their servers during deployment. This is thanks to Cloud 66’s bastion servers, which work for all the service’s supported cloud providers.

Multiple deployment strategies

Cloud 66 users will be able to choose between serial, parallel, and rolling server deployment strategies. This gives businesses full control and allows them to benefit from zero-downtime deployments when they need to deploy or redeploy applications.

Zero-downtime deployments

Depending on the user’s requirements, they can attain zero-downtime deployments when using servers that support hot rollovers like Unicorn and Passenger Enterprise. When users use Unicorn and redeploy their application, Cloud 66 sends a USR2 signal that tells Unicorn to launch a new master in parallel, initiate new worker processes, deactivate old worker processes, and shut down the existing master.

Preview deployments

Users will be able to preview any changes they make to their applications before rolling them out in production. Team members can also preview and review the deployments to ensure that the updates are fully approved.

Rollback

Should an application be released with a bad update, a rollover feature will be useful to rectify any mistakes by allowing users to go back to the working version of the application.

Git-backed configurations

With read-only access, Cloud 66 can build and deploy code directly from the user’s git repository. This ensures that every component installed on a user’s server will have a git-backed configuration file that they can customize. When granting access to a repository, users can choose from private GitHub repositories, manually configured GitHub access, private non-GitHub repositories, and public repositories.

Application database backups

Businesses will be able to back up their application databases when using Cloud 66. This can help in achieving a 3-2-1 backup strategy by allowing users to have encrypted backups onsite or offsite with a web-based restore function. It is also possible to restore backups on a separate server to run test queries to check for data integrity.

Failover groups

Users can deploy their applications either to different data centers or cloud servers. This allows businesses to have a manual or automatic fallback process to ensure that an application has high availability by running two instances of the application when traffic is high.

Team management

When using Cloud 66, users can invite team members to a project and pre-assign their respective roles and permissions. Users will also be able to grant per-application and per-cloud access rights to team members.

Assigning team members is relatively easier due to the available template roles. If a certain role has already been assigned to a team member, users can copy it for other team members.

Enhanced security

Businesses will be able to enforce two-factor authentication for team members, with multiple options being available. Users can select from app-based 2FA, U2F security keys, 2FA enforcement, and multi-key encryption. Additional security includes protection against brute-force access attempts, sensitive file changes, application health checks, and active monitoring of reduced security levels.

Cloud 66 dashboard

Cloud 66 Benefits

Using Cloud 66 helps developers improve their app development workflows by providing a secure platform with useful features to manage app deployments, secure servers, and backup applications. These features can help businesses enjoy the following benefits:

All features unlocked in the Free plan

Cloud 66 offers an unusual Free plan that makes it extremely useful for small businesses in that all Cloud 66 features are available in the Free plan. There’s no need to subscribe to the Grow plan until the current server can no longer handle the number of customers.

Lower server costs

Streamlined application deployment through Cloud 66 means that companies can lower their server costs by up to 80%, especially since there are no associated maintenance costs when a business does not have an in-house server. Hiring DevOps, SREs, and DBAs is expensive compared to relying on Cloud 66 for all server matters, especially since Cloud 66 starts at $29 per month for six servers per application and allows users to take control of their servers.

Easy scaling

Businesses can easily scale their servers through a single-click scaling feature to adjust the number of containers they want to run. Additionally, it is easy to replicate databases, add load balancers, and manage SSL certificates and traffic.

Cloud 66 makes scaling easy due to its master-slave replication and the possibility of zero-downtime deployments. Meaning that businesses can continue taking advantage of the service while still being able to efficiently manage their growth.

Secure servers

Cloud 66 users will have servers secured by a firewall, DDoS protection, sensitive file changes, APN, 2FA, security keys, and the capability to actively monitor security levels. These security measures protect accounts, servers, and applications from attacks and allow businesses to confidently use the service for their development projects.

Cloud 66 Pricing

Users can subscribe to either a plan for applications or static sites. The plans for apps include the Free plan, which offers one free server per application and unlimited apps, and the Grow plan, which costs $29 per month and adds five additional servers per application and charges an additional 9$ for any extra servers. The plan for static sites costs $1.99 a month per website.

The Free plan is appropriate for businesses with a limited number of customers that can be accommodated on a single server. Growing enterprises and large companies will need the Grow plan to take advantage of multiple servers, and the Grow plan is relatively affordable, especially when considering a big company’s profits from its many customers.

Cloud 66 also offers a 2-week free trial with all features available. This does not require a credit card.

Conclusion

Cloud 66 is a cost-effective, end-to-end infrastructure management solution that helps businesses build, manage, and maintain their infrastructure. This is thanks to the low cost of using this service compared to using SREs, DBAs, ELBs, NLBs, and ALBs and managing an in-house server. Additionally, businesses will be able to add as many team members as they want at no extra cost.

Small businesses can stick to the Free plan since it supports an unlimited number of applications while also having all the features of the paid plan. Should businesses receive more customers than their current servers can handle,  they can switch to the paid plan. Cloud 66 is a feature-heavy solution that is not only useful for many users but also quite affordable, especially when considering alternatives.

Cloud 66 Product Overview

  • Deployment — supports rolling, parallel, blue/green, and canary deployment strategies and full deployment history with easy rollbacks.

  • Databases - supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, Memcached & RabbitMQ deployment, backups and replication on your own servers.

  • Teams — unlimited team members at no extra cost, with fine-grained control over permissions and roles. Multi-organization support.

  • Security — provides simple firewall management, stress-free DDoS protection, and powerful account security tools.

  • Provisioning — builds your infrastructure straight from your code.

  • Scaling — cloud load balancing, worker process management, and horizontal scaling on any cloud.


Languages Supported: English
Regional Restrictions: Globally

Cloud 66 Features

  • 2-Factor Authentication
  • A/B Testing
  • API
  • Batch Permissions & Access
  • Contact Management
  • Contact Sharing
  • Dashboard
  • Data Export
  • Data Import
  • Data Visualization
  • Email Integration
  • External Integrations
  • File Sharing
  • File Transfer
  • Google Apps Integration
  • History/Version Control
  • Multi-User
  • Notifications
  • Password & Access Management
  • Scheduling
  • Third-Party Plugins/Add-Ons
  • Malware Protection
  • Bug Tracking
  • Cloud Deployment
  • Migration to Cloud
  • File Format Conversion
  • Hardware Integration
  • Software Integration
  • Status Notifications
Cloud 66 Pricing

Cloud 66 Pricing Plans

Free For Personal Projects

Free
  • 1 Server and 1 Static Site
  • Managed Databases (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Elastic, and more)
  • Managed Backup Storage 100MB
  • Clouds: AWS, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Google Cloud, Vultr, Azure, and Linode;
  • Native and Containarized Applications
  • 50 deployments per 24 hours
  • Background Jobs, Scheduled Tasks, Deployment Hooks

For Developers

$29.00
2 server(s) / month
  • Provisioning — builds your infrastructure straight from your code.
  • Deployment — supports rolling, parallel, blue/green, and canary deployment strategies and full deployment history with easy rollbacks.
  • Databases - supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, Memcached & RabbitMQ deployment, backups and replication on your own servers.
  • Security — provides simple firewall management, stress-free DDoS protection, and powerful account security tools.
  • Scaling — cloud load balancing, worker process management, and horizontal scaling on any cloud.
  • $29/month - paid monthly, or $23/month - paid annually
  • 2 Servers + 2 Static Sites

For Teams

$59.00
4 server(s) / month
  • Provisioning — builds your infrastructure straight from your code.
  • Deployment — supports rolling, parallel, blue/green, and canary deployment strategies and full deployment history with easy rollbacks.
  • Databases - supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, Memcached & RabbitMQ deployment, backups and replication on your own servers.
  • Security — provides simple firewall management, stress-free DDoS protection, and powerful account security tools.
  • $59/month - paid monthly or $47/month - paid annually
  • 4 Servers + 5 Static Sites

Plans starting from: $29.00/month Credit card required: No

Cloud 66 FAQs

Does Cloud 66 offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?

Yes, Cloud 66 offers multi-user capability. Unlimited team members at no extra cost, with fine-grained control over permissions and roles. Also, multi-organization support.

Does Cloud 66 integrate with any other apps?

Easy integration with your existing development tools and workflow:
GitHub, Codeship, Circle Ci, Travis Cl, Codeanywhere, Nitrous, Semaphore, BitBucket, Logentries, Honeybadger, GitLab, Lets Encrypt, Slack and more.

Native support for the most popular open source technologies:
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, InfluxDB, ElasticSearch, Docker, RabbitMQ, GlusterFS.

Cloud Providers:
AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, GoogleCloud, Microsoft Azure, Hetzner Cloud, Vultr, OVH Cloud and Maxihost.
Also, you can use our Registered Servers feature to connect with any cloud provider or server. For example Exoscale, Scaleway, Gridscale to name a few.

Who are the main user groups of Cloud 66?

Developers, CTO, Digital Agencies, Rails Developers, Startups, DevOps, SRE, DBA.

What is Cloud 66 generally used for?

Cloud 66 specializes in DevOps-as-a-Service, enabling developers to build, deploy and manage any application, on any server, via the cloud provider of choice. Offering the convenience of PaaS, with the flexibility of using your own servers, we make DevOps easy with a single, integrated toolkit.

Cloud 66 supports the following frameworks:
Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Jamstack (Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, Next.js, Vue.js, Nuxt.js, Svelte, Middleman, and Docusaurus), Laravel, GoLang, and more.

Does Cloud 66 offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?

Access to Cloud 66 help pages and community pages.
Join our active Slack community.
Email and Chat Support included in the pricing plans.
Access to Cloud 66 webinars, blogs and youtube videos.
One-to-one onboarding demo.

Does Cloud 66 offer an API?

Yes, please check our integration page for more details.

What platforms does Cloud 66 support?

Deployment of web applications and mobile backends.

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Cloud 66 User Reviews

Average User Rating:
4.71/5 based on 7 user ratings.
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"Cloud 66 is a no brainer"

// Co-founder & CEO at EatAbout

We've been using Cloud 66 for over a year and their service is phenomenal. They make it incredibly easy to manage your cloud infrastructure so you can focus on what's actually important to your business. They've saved us countless hours in server management and helped us scale our stack to handle our growth... All for a very affordable price.

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