Re:FortRabbit Puts Faith in Oft-Maligned PHP
by _ak on Thursday October 18, 2012 @03:08PM
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who would run PHP on some cloud service if you can have web hosters host your PHP applications for next to nothing? I think that, without even realizing it, they're competing with the good old webhosters that provide you with webspace on a shared system.
Re:FortRabbit Puts Faith in Oft-Maligned PHP
by showerst on Thursday October 18, 2012 @03:48PM
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Two obvious reasons come to mind (unsure if these guys solve either) -
1 - Scalability. It's nice to have instant scale up/down
2 - Complex deployment - Heroku has proven that if you can make it dead simple to use git and spin up tons of databases/third party software, people will pay for it.
Re:FortRabbit Puts Faith in Oft-Maligned PHP
by dorian-graph on Friday October 19, 2012 @07:42PM
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The 'good old webhosters' don't seem to provide half the things that fortrabbit are such as a non-traditional payment method and integration with Git and other tools.
1 - Scalability. It's nice to have instant scale up/down
2 - Complex deployment - Heroku has proven that if you can make it dead simple to use git and spin up tons of databases/third party software, people will pay for it.