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http://devo.ps - Making dealing with servers not suck.

Want a new box on Digital Ocean with NGINX + Node.js + Redis? A few lines of YAML, git add/commit/push and you're done. You can use your EC2, Rackspace, Linode or Digital Ocean account, and you manage everything (servers and automation) in Git.

To illustrate my point:

- Adding a simple NGINX server using the Web UI: http://docs.devo.ps/how-to/add-a-server/

- The devo.ps button that allows you to do a one-click deploy of a full infrastructure (not unlike the Heroku deploy button, but we deploy your own servers and automated tasks): http://devo.ps/blog/one-click-deploy-of-your-infrastructure/

We' haven't officially launched but have already been signing up a few hundreds developers. At this stage we're mostly ironing out a few bugs and expanding on the documentation/tutorials (http://docs.devo.ps).

If there's anybody out there who want to come in and break stuff up, I'm happy to pay for some Digital Ocean/AWS/Rackspace/Linode credit.

Helping with setup is great, but config is where the real pain is. So maybe some pre-defined config files? Or a generator of sorts? So if I have a nginx or apache web server and I spin up a 16gb DO instance just for that, the config by default would actually use all of the ram, instead of being capped to small defaults.

We have default settings for the services you add to your servers, but you can tune everything. Look at our Nginx doc for example (http://docs.devo.ps/services/nginx/), you can set up pretty much anything. The example section also shows you what config file we generate (if you're interested in this).

We give you all the tools to manage your infrastructure: provisioning, configuration management, variable management and automation.

If this could replace PuPHPet and other Vagrant-config-generators out there I'd be interested. Finding PuPHPet very buggy, and something that 'just works' to quickly set up local dev machines would be very cool

We're already using the Vagrant export feature internally and testing it with a few developers. It's still not as automated and smooth as we'd like (requires 1 manual step).

Our plan is to enable you to add a repo, define your infrastructure and be able to move anything to any type of cloud provider (move from Rackspace to AWS? Search and replace, git commit, git push and voila). The VM export should be in in the next few weeks and allows you to point at a server to be built as a VM and available on S3.

Come nag me in the chat: https://www.hipchat.com/gyHEHtsXZ. Happy to add you as a beta tester for this feature.

It is hard for me to read the grey text on the white background, maybe darken it up a little?

I'm redoing the site and this won't be grey anymore.

Very nice looking website, love it!

No GCE?

It's on the roadmap with many other thigns (S3 for example).

edit: we'll be pushing the roadmap on the site this week so that people know what's in the works.

Still don't see a roadmap...

You're right: adding it tomorrow and shooting back an update here.

ping...

Crude placeholder for now: http://devo.ps/roadmap/

We're reviewing the timeline with my co-founders and will update this in the coming days.

Thanks for posting this. You know, if you can agree on the order, you don't have to specify dates...

"It's done when it's done" is perfectly acceptable for any particular feature. Just chunk them roughly into 'releases' and only ever make firm commitments about the stuff you're working on now.

We'd like to stick to a release plan, at least for features that we know are useful and on our radar. But agreed; it's done when done.

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