Publications by Peter Solymos
How to Host Shiny Apps on Heroku: a Review
Any app at any scale: use one of the Buildpacks, or deploy Docker images. Heroku offers a generous free tier that should be plenty for anyone to start hosting Shiny apps.This review looks at various attributes of Heroku as a hosting option for Shiny apps, including cost, maintenance/deployment, security, branding, and user management.Heroku prici...
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ShinyProxy 1-click App
ShinyProxy is one of the most popular options to host any type of containerized web application, including but not limited to Shiny apps. It provides authentication, authorization, application isolation, scalability, and a lot more with extensive documentation.ShinyProxy is free and open-source. Although free here means that you are free to do an...
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Hosting Shiny Apps with ShinyProxy: a Review
ShinyProxy comes with free enterprise features, such as authentication and app-level authorization. It has no limits on concurrent usage of the deployed applications. It runs containerized applications, as a result, user sessions are fully isolated, dependency management is straightforward, and monitoring and resource management are done with Doc...
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What Is New in ShinyProxy 2.6.0
ShinyProxy is one of the most popular alternatives to conventional Shiny hosting options (offered by RStudio). Especially when it comes to hosting multiple applications, apps other than Shiny, and built-in enterprise features, like authentication and authorization (find a recent review of Shiny hosting options here).This pretty useful and sophist...
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How Many Shiny Apps Can You Host for Free?
Shiny is an incredible piece of technology. The ease of which with you can make simple prototypes or even production-grade applications is unparalleled. All you need is a bit of R skills.But all this is worthless unless you can present your app to your users. If you are just starting out, you don't need any headaches with deployment. You also pro...
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