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		Nowaker on Oct 29, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean Cloud Foundry is a self-hosted Heroku. Both are PaaS (but it's you who provide the "P" with the former). VirtKick is a self-hosted DigitalOcean. Both are very simple IaaS (but it's you who provide the "I" with the former) Does it explain?

hangonhn on Oct 29, 2014 [–]

Yes. Quite clear actually too.

My follow-up then would be how would this compare to OpenStack? If they serve the same purpose, where do you want to differentiate from OpenStack?

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