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Show HN: ServBay – Native local dev environment (modern XAMPP)

https://www.servbay.com/features

Hello HN,I’m one of the creators of ServBay.I built this because I got tired of the cognitive load required just to start coding. On my Mac, it was a fragile mix of Homebrew services and asdf conflicts. On Windows, managing PATH variables and fighting with Docker Desktop's resource usage was equally frustrating. I missed the simplicity of the MAMP/XAMPP era, but I needed to support modern...

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Re:$0 1-Year SSL Certificates (Certum Root) on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @04:00AM (#46119135)
Just a heads-up for anyone who prefers 1-year validity over Let's Encrypt's 90-day cycle. I noticed ServBay is giving away 1-year DV SSL certificates for $0. It uses the Certum root.

How to get it: Go to the store: https://www.servbay.com/store

Scroll to the very bottom. Select the $0 DV Single option. They mentioned it's limited to the first 1,000 users. Hard to beat a price of zero for a paid cert, so I thought I'd share.

I'll think about it.
thank you
thanks for the feedback. I'm also considering whether to add frameworks.
thanks for your feedback. I'll try to modify it.

Show HN: I got tired of managing dev environments, so I built ServBay

https://www.servbay.com

Hey HN,For years, my local development setup has been a fragile mess of tools that never quite played nicely together. On my mac, it was a constant battle with Homebrew services starting (or not starting) on boot, conflicting PHP and Node versions managed by `asdf` or `nvm`, and a collection of `docker-compose.yml` files that I'd copy-paste and tweak for every single project. The cognitive load...

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