Viewing profile — jsamuel

Less Bits | Bellingham, WA | Full Time | REMOTE | L2/L3 Linux support, devops, marketing, more Less Bits is building a company of thoughtful people while reinventing the hosting in…

In markets such as hosting where differentiation is largely about quality of support, brand, and marketing, there are many different reasons why customers choose their hosting comp…

There's a huge market of people who want to purchase managed hosting, not be responsible for their own servers. Think of the customers (such as WordPress developers) of any traditi…

If you have even a little experience with Linux or are looking to learn, we've built https://hostlaunch.io/ to make it very easy to start a managed cloud hosting company. Just drop…

ServerPilot ( https://serverpilot.io/ ) --- Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6733631 Our Show HN post didn't get much attention, but we also didn't have our marketing …

ServerPilot | Tucson, Arizona | Phoenix, Arizona | Full-Time | ONSITE We’re a growing server management startup that makes it easy to use DigitalOcean and other cloud providers for…

It's only necessary for older servers (e.g. Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04) where people haven't done this already.

Confirmed that LightSail works with ServerPilot ( https://serverpilot.io/ ). LightSail's default firewall opens ports 22 (SSH) and 80 (HTTP) but has 443 (HTTPS) closed. That seems …

At ServerPilot, we decided early on not to support HHVM for similar reasons: we could see PHP 7 was going to offer the same performance benefits without the pain, breakage, and dow…

Though ServerPilot focuses more on ongoing server management (e.g. updates, control panel, monitoring, support) for DigitalOcean servers rather than one-click installers, there is …

> I wonder if people really do use ownCloud on shared hosting DigitalOcean and other VPS providers are popular for hosting ownCloud.

Congrats to the PHP team. We're quite happy to see PHP 5.3 fully EOL'd recently and 5.6 now released. In trying to do our part to encourage adoption, we've already added support fo…

Given how many people are uninspired and undirected in their lives, it's a wonderful privilege to have something you know you want to do. On top of that, it's amazing to be in a po…

Interesting, I didn't realize that Ajenti charges for commercial licensing of their web hosting addon. http://ajenti.org/licensing It's on github separately but without a license: …

I love how they narrowed their focus to barbershops. One of the hardest parts of many startups is finding and staying focused on the right niche.

The need among PHP developers for a service that also does ongoing server management is why we built ServerPilot ( https://serverpilot.io/ ). While Forge is an advanced deployment …

Hi. Thanks for your feedback. We need to improve the site to make these things clearer. We save you time by configuring servers initially, doing reconfiguration tasks for you, sett…

Hi, founder here. We're trying to change the way developers use and manage cloud servers. We'd love any feedback, questions, or feature requests you have. Thank you!

Thanks, Juan. PuPHPet is great. We should talk about ways for PuPHPet and ServerPilot to work together.

I definitely understand your security concerns. My background is actually in security research. The architecture we're implementing will prevent arbitrary code execution on your se…

Thanks for signing up. We plan to keep the basic app and server management free. What you see in the current private beta will all remain free. Pricing is a hard question to answer…

Thanks for testing us out and for the positive words. We don't do any additional server hardening at the moment. Our focus on security right now is primarily on the security of our…

Hi, cofounder here. It's not open source. The FreedomCP agent that runs on your servers is written in Python and can be audited but most of the code resides on our side as it's a h…

If being a good developer was only related to technical skills and background, hiring would sure be a lot easier. One of the best developers I know was an English major. He's even …