franklaemmer

shameless plug: fortrabbit the one and only PHP as a Service is missing!

WP is not really a 12-factor app. so i guess it depends on your PaaS. in general bottom up, dev-to-dev, not top-down (sales, business relations …) works for us — i am co-founder of fortrabbit (PHP as a Service).

i think "GetPantheon" is doing a good job for professional WP hosting. wp-engine also. …

plug: i'm co-founder of PHP-only-PaaS fortrabbit — seeing Heroku move in our direction shows me that we are doing something right. We see a lot of momentum in the PHP community — some call it a PHP renaissance. Laravel, Composer and lately Facebooks input with HHVM (& Hack) are the cornerstones. Of course PHP is not everyones cup of tea, but something to be taken seriously.

shameless plug: fortrabbit (i am founder) is dedicated "PHP as a Service". Our infrastructure provider is AWS Ireland, we have a lot of clients from the UK.

at least one alternative: http://viaduct.io/ looks promising to me. seems to be from the UK, running on own hardware.

offtopic but: http://www.phptherightway.com/

SHAMELESS PLUG: we've build a PHP PaaS: http://fortrabbit.com which brings you a system that feels pretty much like your ususal LAMP stack but comes with a lot of candy on top.

The main benefit is: it's managed. You don't need to care about dependencies, updates, patches yourself. It's made for the needs of PHP web application development – continuous development, multi-staging etc.

We believe that the convenience we offer is more important than the few dollars (well actually Euro in our case as we are based in EU) you can save.

Curious what you think. Is it a fit? Are you missing something? Is it too expensive?

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. – Larry Wall