Orchestra.io - PHP Platform as a service • Hacker News Board

At roughly $30/month minimum for the "basic" service (that doesn't auto-scale), plus costs for add-ons, you really have to not know what you're doing when it comes to deployment (or just have money to burn), because PHP/MySQL is just about the easiest thing to deploy in the world.

But having auto-scaling on your app, I could see this being worth the value if you want that kind of stuff to be managed for you.

Re: Orchestra.io - PHP Platform as a service

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Post by justincormack » Tue, Apr 05, 2011, 12:14 PM UTC

I would like to see a security page. It is not clear if your app is isolated in its own microinstance or shared in some way that should be specified.

Re: Orchestra.io - PHP Platform as a service

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Post by jqueryin » Tue, Apr 05, 2011, 12:20 PM UTC

If echolibre happens to be reading this, I'm seeing a stylesheet issue on your activation form where the two input boxes for email address and password are extending beyond the login containment box. Screenshot below.

http://tinypic.com/r/30mwjrl/7

I'm running FF 4.0 on Fedora 13. Hope this helps =)

Re: Orchestra.io - PHP Platform as a service

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Post by EamonLeonard » Tue, Apr 05, 2011, 12:20 PM UTC

sbarre wrote: post #6

At roughly $30/month minimum for the "basic" service (that doesn't auto-scale), plus costs for add-ons, you really have to not know what you're doing when it comes to deployment (or just have money to burn), because PHP/MySQL is just about the easiest thing to deploy in the world. But having auto-scaling on your app, I could see this being worth the value if you want that kind of stuff to be managed for you.

Agreed, anyone can deploy PHP -- it's not rocket science. Scaling is what Orchestra is all about, but obviously you need to deploy before you can get to that point.

A note on pricing -- we're trying to find the right price point / service level offering, that the market will respond to. We've a "grandfathering" policy in place, which we've detailed at the bottom of our pricing page: https://orchestra.tenderapp.com/kb/about-orchestra/pricing-b...

Re: Orchestra.io - PHP Platform as a service

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Post by EamonLeonard » Tue, Apr 05, 2011, 12:21 PM UTC

jqueryin wrote: post #8

If echolibre happens to be reading this, I'm seeing a stylesheet issue on your activation form where the two input boxes for email address and password are extending beyond the login containment box. Screenshot below. http://tinypic.com/r/30mwjrl/7 I'm running FF 4.0 on Fedora 13. Hope this helps =)

Thanks for the heads up! We'll get that fixed :)