I migrated http://weekplan.net yesterday in just a few hours. The main difficulty was the incompleteness of the documentation which is easily solvable.

Asp.net Mvc3 + NuGet + Razor + AppHarbor is becoming a viable alternative for productive development.

Agree, very easy once I was able to git out of my own way. Haven't really done much with it yet, but this is what Azure should be in terms of a developer experience. I'll be interested to see the AH guys evolve the service and start to get some of the elasticity of heroku, Azure, et al. Great start though and great support as they build out docs.

how do the various package managers for .NET stack up ?

Cool... so what are the current known issues with AppHarbor compared to Heroku (sans the witty -- "uses .NET").

I doesn't support MS Test in its testing process it uses during builds, but other than that I haven't run into any issues using it. It does support NUnit and xUnit though.

Thanks. Have you tried it with WebMatrix?

I haven't yet - I have ASP.NET MVC3 RTM up and running on it though: http://geekyreads.com/

I didn't even know that shipped already (MVC 3 RTM)! I thought HN was supposed to keep me up to date on stuff like that! :-)

.net needs this so bad. The two paid hosting providers I've used in the past were beyond terrible.

It needs an open source solution or a solution you can buy and run on your own servers, because most of us doing .NET are doing it for corporations and on their own private servers.

I agree with the demand. Personally, however, I do think that most companies should seriously consider cloud hosting rather than running a private cloud...

Looks awesome. Can't wait to try this out...unfortunately the invite code seems to have expired.

It's good for twenty more sign-ups, so please try again.

I kept getting "invite code not found" errors. If you have any more invites, I would love to get one.

Those seem to be gone as well. Shame.

What are the security limitations of AppHarbor? I see that they support NHibernate via custom security, but could I also run NHibernate Search / Lucene.NET, or is the filesystem locked down like Heroku?

We are currently evaluating whether or not to allow writes to the file system... The thing is that while you could use it for temporary storage, we may transfer your application to another server or run it on multiple, so you can't really rely on it. So for indexing I would just recommend that you try out http://websolr.com/

Probably editing error, but their terms page (https://appharbor.com/page/terms) skips over section 4.1.

It's fixed, thanks!