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Asked: 2026-06-08T12:08:52+00:00

I realize CloudFoundry is still in beta and I’ll admit to being moderately ignorant

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I realize CloudFoundry is still in beta and I’ll admit to being moderately ignorant when it comes to this level of cloud computing but here’s my question: I create an app, everything works, I upload it to CF. Now what? I want to launch my app in the wild. I want users to not see a CF URL.

Here are some pieces I do know, but I’m not getting the entire picture.

I know I can map a URL to an app. So presumably that’s just some DNS routing happening. But other than that, is it safe at this point to bet the farm on CF and, for example, launch of startup using it? At what point am I going to realize I need to move to something like RackSpace (or whatever) and is it possible to take my CF VM and just move it?

Overall, I just don’t fully understand what we’re getting with CF other than a quick way to deploy a demo application.

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  1. Editorial Team

    At this point, if you need a custom domain, you need to configure an external proxy and from there route the traffic to your CF.com URL. This is a good example.

    But the advantage of CloudFoundry is that it is entirely open source. You can always move your app to a compatible service provider, for example AppFog, with not much more than a simple push.

    You could even deploy your own CF instance/server on Rackspace.

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