Packagecloud
About Packagecloud
Packagecloud Pricing
Our Starter Plan comes with unlimited private repos and collaborators. Subscription includes 2GB in storage and 10GB in transfer bandwidth. Once these limits are exceeded overage charges apply.
Starting price:
$89.00 per month
Free trial:
Available
Free version:
Available
Most Helpful Reviews for Packagecloud
1 - 7 of 7 Reviews
Neil
Industrial Automation, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2022
Packagecloud is powerful package hosting at the right price.
I selected packagecloud after reviewing at least 8 various and sundry package hosting providers. Packagecloud was the only vendor in the space to support Debian packages at a reasonable price point. We started small, with a few dozen packages. Years later, we now keep hundreds of packages in packagecloud. Client setup takes some work to automate, but once that's accomplished, it works like magic. No package hosting provider does what I need better than packagecloud. If such a competitor existed, I would have found it by now.
PROSThere's quite a lot to like about packagecloud: * comprehensive, well-written documentation * powerful, well-organized API * a nice CLI tool * supports Debian packages (both binary and source, one of the few vendors in this space to do so) * excellent support via email and slack
CONS* In the early days, there were some bugs in and around some of the darker corners of the Debian policy on package repositories. I pursued some bug reports and they were addressed. * The CLI tool is implemented in ruby (not my first language) and requires a runtime I don't usually install. * The non-SSO authorization is token-centric which might be a bad fit for some.
Reason for choosing Packagecloud
S3 required too much work around the problem of authorization/authentication and creating an apt-compatible directory hierarchy. Gitlab and Github support naive downloads but not apt clients. Artifactory prices were (and remain) completely and ridiculously exorbitant.
Takeshi
Information Technology and Services, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used monthly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed March 2022
Good idea to start with a free tier
There is a high threshold for uploading packages such as RPM and Debian to the official repository. That's why packagecloud.io was useful as a private (or public) repository. It is also a good point to be able to update the package according to the schedule of the development side. You can change the billing amount according to the usage traffic and capacity, and you can start cheaply.
PROSIt can be easily used as a package repository for each OS. In addition, package management is easy, and you can manage repositories and packages according to the situation. It's easy to start to use and doesn't bother you.
CONSIt would be nice to be able to handle 2FA. We also expect that it can be used as a repository other than OS-related packages (NPM, Helm, Python, etc.).
Reason for choosing Packagecloud
Artifactory may have many features, but it's confusing. In particular, when the administrator failed to design, the user was just confused. So, in our department, we chose packagecloud.io instead of using it.
Francesco
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2022
Almost perfect
Fast and easy to use, best support ever, clear documentation
CONSNew pricing tier do not suit our need perfectly
Reason for choosing Packagecloud
Easy to use and production ready
D. R.
Information Technology and Services, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2023
Packagecloud facilitates large-scale deployment of my open source projects.
I maintain three popular open source projects, including an ISO/ITU-T reference implementation of the JPEG standard that is used by tens of thousands of developers and billions of end users every day as well as high-performance remote display software that is used by numerous corporations and academic institutions. packagecloud provides a convenient, stable, easy to use platform for hosting official RPM and DEB packages built from the releases of my software, which facilitates large-scale deployment. I particularly like the command line interface, which makes it possible to automatically push new packages to packagecloud whenever I push a new release.
CONSThe command line interface could use more features, such as an rsync-like feature that pushes only the changed packages from a specified set of files or a directory, the ability to list all packages (and their metadata) currently hosted in a repository, etc.
Dmitriy
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2023
Simple and quick way to host Linux repos
Simple and easy to start using without self-hosting multiple types of Linux repos
CONSMissing templates for RPM/DEB compilation for getting started even quicker
Daniel
Computer & Network Security, 1 employee
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2023
Good service
It was easy to set up a apt server with their process
CONS.
Scot
Computer Software, 1 employee
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Just Signed Up for Packagecloud!
Setting things up is very easy. The support team is responsive and knowledgeable.
PROSI lost bintray some time ago and have been seeking an alternative. Well, I found it!
CONSI am starting my journey with Packagecloud: thus far I have no complaints.
Reason for choosing Packagecloud
Packagecloud supports all the artifact types I intend to publish not just RPMs.
Reasons for switching to Packagecloud
Bintray was discontinued.