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I should probably get around to making a ShowHN, but my co-founder and I, having worked with loooots of clients that are still very actively working with PHP co

I should probably get around to making a ShowHN, but my co-founder and I, having worked with loooots of clients that are still very actively working with PHP code bases (sometimes even still in datacenters!), aggregated and productized our "dream" stack as a PHP PaaS. Please check it out, kick the tires, and let us know what we forgot! https://www.lamp.io/ https://www.lamp.io/

gitgud 7y ago
Nice implementation! I really like the pricing page's variability, But it does seem kind of expensive. Probably about 30$/month to run a wordpress install.... Are you using AWS or GCS? Maybe Kubernetes would be a cheaper option... Definitely submit this as a "Show HN"!
- jimatlampio 7y ago
  Thank you! Its built on kube (gke) on gcp. For pricing we just started with the standard retailer keystone margin without oversell/oversubscription. We're hoping ease of use trumps saving a few dollars a month, it has for our first few customers, but we're still testing it out. Our goal is not to be the bottom-barrel-cpanel hosting world, but rather the freelancer/professional market for whom the extra 10 -20/month is a rounding error if it makes life easier. Also as a clustered service where we handle the os/image layers for you its more akin to a failover pair of vps's with some devops services (like forge) so its actually right in line with those as a bundled price, we just need to communicate it better. Also we're working on improving the webhooks/ci-cd functionality to eat into the $/month people pay for stuff like envoyer or travis-ci too.
ryanmccullagh 7y ago
Interesting project. And it's great to learn about your company. My project, Amezmo [0] is providing a similar service, but focused exclusively on php hosting along with continious deployments and managed databases. We bundle deployment and hosting. I've been working on this since 2018. [0] https://www.amezmo.com https://www.amezmo.com
- jimatlampio 7y ago
  very cool, I like your design eye better than mine! I think the overall market is huge here, plenty of room for both of us (and fortrabbit). The EIG family of companies and the 5.6 "issue" is creating a giant market for next-gen-php hosting.
Kovah 7y ago
Little off topic: you should check your site on mobile. The header takes almost half of the site, making browsing it super horrible.
- jimatlampio 7y ago
  yikes good catch. we had to de-prioritize mobile compared to so many other things, but we shouldn't let it get outright bad.

gitgud 7y ago

Nice implementation! I really like the pricing page's variability, But it does seem kind of expensive. Probably about 30$/month to run a wordpress install.... Are you using AWS or GCS? Maybe Kubernetes would be a cheaper option... Definitely submit this as a "Show HN"!

jimatlampio 7y ago
Thank you! Its built on kube (gke) on gcp. For pricing we just started with the standard retailer keystone margin without oversell/oversubscription. We're hoping ease of use trumps saving a few dollars a month, it has for our first few customers, but we're still testing it out. Our goal is not to be the bottom-barrel-cpanel hosting world, but rather the freelancer/professional market for whom the extra 10 -20/month is a rounding error if it makes life easier. Also as a clustered service where we handle the os/image layers for you its more akin to a failover pair of vps's with some devops services (like forge) so its actually right in line with those as a bundled price, we just need to communicate it better. Also we're working on improving the webhooks/ci-cd functionality to eat into the $/month people pay for stuff like envoyer or travis-ci too.

ryanmccullagh 7y ago

Interesting project. And it's great to learn about your company. My project, Amezmo [0] is providing a similar service, but focused exclusively on php hosting along with continious deployments and managed databases. We bundle deployment and hosting. I've been working on this since 2018. [0] https://www.amezmo.com https://www.amezmo.com

jimatlampio 7y ago
very cool, I like your design eye better than mine! I think the overall market is huge here, plenty of room for both of us (and fortrabbit). The EIG family of companies and the 5.6 "issue" is creating a giant market for next-gen-php hosting.

Kovah 7y ago

Little off topic: you should check your site on mobile. The header takes almost half of the site, making browsing it super horrible.

jimatlampio 7y ago
yikes good catch. we had to de-prioritize mobile compared to so many other things, but we shouldn't let it get outright bad.