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Full disclosure: I am founder and CEO of PHP Fog

The business model is that free is on a shared and limited infrastructure so our costs are low. We also limit the number and resources for free. We have found that we had some room to offer even more without cutting into our margins significantly which is what drives this decision.

Thanks for all your great questions!

SSH tunneling is not possible in PaaS environments.

It is not open because it is not portable. You can't take wordpress-on-dotcloud and deploy it on any other architecture or platform outside of dotCloud.

That is where AppFog steps in and makes things clear - http://blog.phpfog.com/2011/08/25/appfog-reveals-cloud-found...

Except if you scratch your itch on dotCloud, you can't run it on your own laptop like you can with Cloud Foundry Micro or on other services that might have a better interface like AppFog. That's the problem with contributing to a closed source project.

The nice thing about Open Source PaaS is that you can scratch your own itches, add a Tornado pull request and pretty soon it could be running on AppFog.com or CloudFoundry.com

Here is the PHP pull request: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/vcap/pull/105

And the Python pull request: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/vcap/pull/57

AppFog is hiring BTW, looking for people who want to be paid to develop Cloud Foundry: http://blog.phpfog.com/2011/06/10/we-are-hiring/

Thank you James, AppFog is thrilled to be working with VMware, building yet-another-proprietary-system is like swimming upstream with your hands tied. Supporting the Open Source community by embracing it is the best way to build a PaaS these days.

Anyhow, after understanding how Cloud Foundry works, it was a no-brainer, the code is so good!

$68.40/month seems a bit high to me

bitcoins can apparently disappear, even when you do everything right

Have a kid. Nuff said.

That sounds like highway robbery.

30% commission is for when you are selling people's stuff for them. Unless you have a huge audience who can't wait to buy random stuff on the internet (like Apple does), 30% is outrageous. If Paypal started charging 30% commissions on money transfers people would drop it like a hot potato.

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You do not need to be signed up in the beta, you can use it today for free.

http://phpfog.com/ is like heroku for PHP without the shared host.

We are working on some features I think you will be excited about!

Thank you!

Hi, I am the founder and it is definitely not just my pet project. My team and I are working very hard and fast to bring people on as quickly as possible and provide more public details. Follow us on twitter (@phpfog) for the latest.

Even if someone has split-tested, the specifics of how much the product costs, what it provides, how much time it saves the user, and its perceived value all make a huge difference on where the split-testing ends up. Apples and oranges.

I have been saving since I was a teenager in a regular 401(k) but then I realized that I can get a much better return on investment if I invest in myself. Now I keep it all and am investing it in my business endeavors.

I am looking for one or the other, I am doing both right now and am looking for someone who can offset one of them very well.

Business co-founder - Portland, OR

Technical co-founder - Portland, OR

Awesome developer - Portland, OR

I am starting PHP Fog, which is a service like Heroku for PHP. We deploy and scale your PHP applications seamlessly in the cloud for you. You focus on development, we focus on deployment.

Ping me a lucas@phpfog.com for more information.

Someone's got a chip on their shoulder!

How would you market it? How do you find and attract people who's advise and knowledge is worth knowing? The value in a site like this lives and dies by the quality of the people using it.

This update failed and left my phone unusable. Had to restore and resync from scratch.

CPanel does not scale your websites nor does it help deploy changes.

It will let you seamlessly grow from shared to dedicated hosting (and back again) as needed for either your application serving or database needs.