Portland-based PHP cloud platform PHP Fog raises $1.8M

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>> PHP Fog was formed last year by Lucas Carlson, a PHP developer over the past eight years who is also described in the news release as one of the world’s leading developers of the Ruby programming language.

Am I the only one who finds this ironic?

No. The ruby community just attracts more language snobs than most languages, and unfortunately, tolerates them. In reality the people who make sweeping negative generalizations about PHP developers are a vocal minority.

In reality, most rubyists acknowledge that there are plenty of good PHP developers and plenty of bad Ruby developers.

Hoping to get a beta invite for this (I filled in the forms!) - it looks like it could be perfect for some things I had lined up but the site is a bit short on specifics, which I guess is understandable at the moment.

It's nice to see things like this popping up for PHP. I was starting to feel like I'd been left alone here while all the kids go play Ruby.

This seems really interesting, although the latest series of issues with heroku makes me wonder if it ever can be done in a high quality way.

I hope so, if it did, it would be super-fantastic.

What were the recent Heroku issues? I must have missed this.

Ditto. Anyone?

This one's a bit different. They provide dedicated AWS boxes. So there's no free plan (though beta testers get a generous free credit) and there's no five-second or so delay getting a response to a request on an app that has been turned off due to inactivity.

Have been trying it out, and it seems like it could turn into an awesome company, and the guys behind it seem great as well.

Pleased to hear about this investment, and hope they go far.

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