Correa launches its cloud-hosted version of its popular content management system. With Strapi Cloud, developers don’t have to manage their own servers, the company takes care of the hosting. That way you can focus on the front-end code.
If you are not familiar with Strapi, the company has developed one of the leading open source headless CMS. A headless architecture means that the backend works separately from the frontend.
At its core, Strapi is a CMS with all the usual features you would expect from a CMS. Content authors connect to a management interface, write content, upload media, create pages, and more. Everything is stored in a database.
But unlike normal content management systems, Strapi does not generate web pages directly. Instead, the content can be accessed via GraphQL or RESTful API. Front-end developers can use these APIs to retrieve and display content.
This decoupled architecture offers some flexibility as you can use different front-end frameworks such as Gatsby, Vue.js, and Nuxt.js. A single copy of Strapi can also be used to distribute content across different platforms. For example, if you work for a company that has a desktop app and a mobile app, you can pull new content from Strapi directly into those apps.
As for Strapi hosting, developers currently run their own Strapi instances on a third-party platform-as-a-service provider such as Heroku, DigitalOcean App Platform, or Platform.sh. Some developers also start with a standard virtual private server on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
Strapi Cloud allows SMBs to pay Strapi to host their instance. The startup has tried to make Strapi Cloud as flexible as possible, so you can move from one hosting provider to another or customize your infrastructure to suit your needs.
Strapi Cloud includes a server, database, CDN and email service by default. However, if you want to use an external database, a different CDN or email provider, you can replace the default Strapi Cloud options with your own services.
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Strapi Cloud uses a PostgreSQL database behind the scenes, which means you can port your existing PostgreSQL database to the new cloud platform. As for email and CDN, Strapi Cloud is based on SendGrid and Clouflare respectively.
The company still has a long list of items on its roadmap. For example, for now, the Strapi Cloud servers are all hosted in the New York area. However, soon customers will be able to select a different region.
Similarly, Strapi’s backend interface and API endpoint are accessed through a subdomain of Strapi’s website. In the future, this domain name will be customizable, which can be especially useful for digital agencies.
Currently, only a limited number of users can subscribe to Strapi Cloud. Only 50 people can start a free trial per day. People on the waiting list will also receive an invitation.
There are two plans for Strapi Cloud. The first plan starts at $99 per month with some generous bandwidth and asset storage limits (100,000 CMS items, 1 million API requests, 150 GB of asset storage, 500 GB of asset bandwidth, etc.). There’s also a more expensive plan with an audit trail feature and a higher level of support, which should meet the needs of larger enterprise customers.
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Source: La Neta Neta
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