Ask HN: Any good (PHP) PaaS with UK datacentres?

#1

Post by tomardern » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 2:47 PM UTC

Hi, Has anyone had any experience or know of any good PHP PaaS with UK datacentres that they can recommend? Thanks,

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Post by leigh_t » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 3:05 PM UTC

You could try Engine Yard (https://www.engineyard.com/), I think they are using EC2 (has a datacenter in Ireland).

Can't vouch for how "good" their PHP offering is having never used it, definitely a passionate team though, I've met several of them over the years at PHP related conferences (in the UK) as the company has grown.

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Post by aspleenic » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 3:08 PM UTC

leigh_t wrote: post #2

You could try Engine Yard ( https://www.engineyard.com/ ), I think they are using EC2 (has a datacenter in Ireland). Can't vouch for how "good" their PHP offering is having never used it, definitely a passionate team though, I've met several of them over the years at PHP related conferences (in the UK) as the company has grown.

I can vouch for it - it's solid. Feel free to jump into #engineyard on IRCFreenode if you have any questions - or just use the trial hours to spin up a staging version and give it a try.

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Post by franklaemmer » Fri, Apr 11, 2014, 9:58 AM UTC

shameless plug: fortrabbit (i am founder) is dedicated "PHP as a Service". Our infrastructure provider is AWS Ireland, we have a lot of clients from the UK.

at least one alternative: http://viaduct.io/ looks promising to me. seems to be from the UK, running on own hardware.

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Post by tomardern » Fri, Apr 11, 2014, 12:07 PM UTC

Had a play with Layershift - Jelastic. Seems pretty good so far. Through Jelastic I am able to edit nginx configs, php-fpm configs and php.ini.

Re: Ask HN: Any good (PHP) PaaS with UK datacentres?

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Post by tomardern » Fri, Apr 11, 2014, 12:15 PM UTC

franklaemmer wrote: post #4

shameless plug: fortrabbit (i am founder) is dedicated "PHP as a Service". Our infrastructure provider is AWS Ireland, we have a lot of clients from the UK. at least one alternative: http://viaduct.io/ looks promising to me. seems to be from the UK, running on own hardware.

Nice - I'll take a look at fortrabbit. Your MYSQL Add-on pricing seems a little steep between 64mb and 512mb. Shame you do not have anything in the middle.

Shame that I have a wait to have a quick play. "Yeah! You will get a free slot in 5-7 days"

Viaduct looks promising but no pricing information.