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Ozgun Erdogan

Ubicloud (YC W24) - Open source alternative to AWS

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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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Ozgun Erdogan
Ubicloud
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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!
Pradhumn Vijayvargiya
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)
Ozgun Erdogan
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
Samuel Darwin
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?
Ozgun Erdogan
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.
Andreea S.
@ozgun Congrats on launching Ubicloud!
Umur Cubukcu
Ubicloud
Maker
Ubicloud started with encrypted VMs, storage and networking primitives, ABAC, and managed PostgreSQL. Now you can deploy anything that can be containerized, using a completely open source and simplified toolchain -- all the way from Linux, to Kamal, to Ubicloud. We are excited to reduce costs by 3x for core cloud services (and by 10x with our Github managed runners), to run anywhere, and to bring more freedom with open source. Would love to hear your feedback!
Sai Krishna Srirampur
PeerDB
Congrats Ubicloud team! We at PeerDB (https://github.com/PeerDB-io/peerdb) have been using Ubicloud since many months to speed-up our CI builds. It has been a great experience both from a performance and cost savings (over 10x savings) standpoint. Kamal integration will be a game changer for app devs, making it seamless to deploy managed web apps, now anywhere! 🚀
Engin Dogusoy
Congrats, Ubicloud team 🎉 We are using Ubicloud GitHub Runners 24/7 at Lifemote Networks and having a great time with them. I'm looking forward to what's next!
Tobia De Angelis
Incredible product from a top team. Go Oz and team!
Lukas Fittl
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.
Kyrylo Silin
Telebugs
Hey Ozgun, I'm curious about the performance comparison between Ubicloud and traditional cloud providers. Have you conducted any benchmarks? Also, for companies considering migration, what's your approach to ensuring a smooth transition from existing cloud setups? Congrats on the launch!
Ozgun Erdogan
Ubicloud
Maker
Hey @kyrylosilin - insightful question! We ran performance benchmarks for different use-cases. We should do this for Ubicloud + Kamal as well. * https://www.ubicloud.com/docs/gi... * https://www.ubicloud.com/docs/ma... We should run numbers for Ubicloud + Kamal as well. My guess would be that Ubicloud and AWS would perform similarly for most workloads, give or take 10-15% of each other. Our bare metal providers give us 4th gen AMD CPUs, so we'd be similar on CPU performance. I'd expect AWS to do better than that when your workload is network heavy. I'd expect Ubicloud to do better if you're writing to local disk (we use local NVMes). On companies considering migration, the specific steps depend on the use-case. Moving CI/CD workloads is straightforward, moving a database is naturally much harder. If you have a particular workload in mind, please do hit us up! Also, if you're deploying new workloads, please try us out and tell us what you think.
Emir Karşıyakalı
A promising startup that reduces cloud costs with multiple figures. A successful, incredibly talented team that previously exited a product to a giant like Microsoft, inspiring confidence because they clearly know what they are doing. I have no doubt they will become a unicorn. Congrats on the launch!
Arda Bulut
HockeyStack
Finally I don't have to pay half of my runway to AWS
Furkan Sahin
Ubicloud
Maker
Hey all! As one of the software devs here at Ubicloud, I am very proud that now, we have all the primitives to host a web app! You can use our Load Balancers, DNS hostnames, Certificates, free of charge! Our VMs, managed PostgreSQL database is also at a fraction of the cost of AWS! More to come!
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