dpieri

We found out about Staticloud after we started but decided to keep going because we wanted to create something that people could use for their serious websites (like portfolios). Thus the need to have ownership of your subdomain and be able to add and remove files etc...

We were inspired partially by the struggles of our less technically minded classmates [we go to design school] who can piece together a simple portfolio but end up paying $5 a month to tear their hair out trying to figure out how to host their site on Godaddy.

No versioning or live editing. Of course you can always reupload individual files or a new zip and it will replace whatever was there. For the moment there are no image restrictions.

Coralrift.com is a simple Rails app but we changed the Apache configuration to route all subdomains to individual directories served by Apache.

We had to get a VPS instead of hosting on something like Heroku because we needed access to the filesystem and Apache configuration

Yes, we have a VPS with root access

The primary market for this are people who glaze over when you start talking about DNS Servers or CNAME. But that is definitely something that would be cool to add.