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Re: Heroku for PHP - Private Beta Signup

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like Heroku, but better Somehow I doubt that, but the service looks interesting. I wonder if there is a market for high quality PHP hosting.

I have to agree. I really like the concept of the service, and I am sure it will find some niches, but I don't think I have ever considered "...like X, but better..." a strong marketing argument.

I would suggest just comparing it to Heroku and then specifying how your service is different, instead of making a claim about how one should be valued over the other.

Best of luck regardless.

Re: Heroku for PHP - Private Beta Signup

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Put in my email for an invite, its going to come down to pricing.

My initial skepticism is that deploying PHP apps is easy, and Fantastico already gives us 1-click installs for stuff like Drupal and Wordpress. So you'll have to provide all the value on the sysadmin side.

However, we do have a couple of apps that require load balancing. I'm pretty happy with the dedicated server and load balancing prices we get from WiredTree already, but I'm always looking for new opportunities.

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