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esheron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)

fortrabbit is PHP as a Service — cloud hosting dedicated for a modern PHP. More dev, less ops for web designers, startups and digital agencies. fortrabbit is a small and fine bootstrapped company located in Berlin Kreuzberg. If you've ever wondered what it’s like to build and grow services for yourself, this is the place. We use our own services every day to be more productive in our work. We take work seriously and expect each person to be self motivated. You will join the small team in an important position. While we are mostly PHP, GoLang is also a requirement.

tech stack: GoLang, PHP, Laravel, AWS, Linux (Ubuntu), Apache, HAproxy, NGNIX, FPM …

https://fortrabbit.breezy.hr/p/1ea397f4fb5e01-go-php-develop... or fl@fortrabbit.com

esheron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)

fortrabbit | DevOps Engineer| Berlin | ONSITE preferred | €50k - €60k | https//www.fortrabbit.com fortrabbit is PHP as a Service — cloud hosting dedicated for a modern PHP. More dev, less ops for web designers, startups and digital agencies. fortrabbit is a small and fine bootstrapped company located in Berlin Kreuzberg. If you've ever wondered what it’s like to build and grow services for yourself, this is the place. We use our own services every day to be more productive in our work. We take work seriously and expect each person to be self motivated. tech stack: AWS, LXC, GoLang, Linux (Ubuntu), Apache, HAproxy, NGNIX, FPM … https://fortrabbit.breezy.hr/p/dfcfddca653301-devops-enginee.... or fl@fortrabbit.com

We already have good candidates we are speaking with, please apply only if you are really on fire for this.

esheron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)

tech stack: AWS, LXC, GoLang, Linux (Ubuntu), Apache, HAproxy, NGNIX, FPM …

https://fortrabbit.breezy.hr/p/dfcfddca653301-devops-enginee... or fl@fortrabbit.com

esheron Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

I understand: It's curated and opinionated and there should only be three big players on the list. I strongly feel that hosting is not a commodity. There are big differences between PaaS and VPS hosting in service level.

Shameless plug: We run [PHP as a Service](https://www.fortrabbit.com) which is a managed stack with pre-installed Git push to deploy, Composer and Let's Encrypt certs for all domains.

esheron Added some non-js social share buttons

haha, just wanted to check out if those buttons actually work. they do.

esheron Real-world HTTP/2: 400GB of images per day

we also did a far less sophisticated HTTP/2 reality check: https://blog.fortrabbit.com/http2-reality-check

about the same result: real world performance boost was not soooo big.

esheron Mandrill's Heroku add-on is being shut down

interesting. no mention on mandrill blog.

esheron Ask HN: Startups, what accounting software do you use?

we have used freshbooks — as it is a leader and has an API, but it's obviously not built to be used for lo's of automated SaaS invoices. some more here: http://blog.fortrabbit.com/battling-billing

esheron Dotcloud Is Shutting Down on February 29

is PaaS dead? > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10894624

esheron Ask HN: In a microservice architecture, how do you handle managing secrets?

We run a PHP hosting platform and that tickled us as well. We were especially upset with the common sense that storing secrets in ENV vars is a good idea — in PHP those vars are easily exposed. See our blog post: http://blog.fortrabbit.com/how-to-keep-a-secret — here we suggested:

1. create a secret key, store it with the code of your App 2. store the encrypted credentials in env vars

Later on we even launched our own solution for our clients, an app_secrets.yml file, which can be edited via Dashboard. http://help.fortrabbit.com/secrets

The nice thing is, that this file is partly managed by the platform for it's own credentials and partly by the user.

That has been running for a while now. The adaption rate is low until now. It turned out that not everything will fit into that ONE fault. Blackfire.io and NewRelic run as PHP extensions, thus the API-keys are stored with the extension setting.

We have also discussed to implement an some open source "Secret as a Service" but came to the conclusion that this can too easily turn into to be a SPOF.

I am amazed that this topic is getting discussed again and I have learned about many new concepts here.

esheron Is PaaS dead?

Article author here. Thanks for all the feedback. Many of you missed the big players like Azure, AWS (Lambda & Elastic Beanstalk), Google App Engine … Well, that's true.

Due to my perspective I am mostly interested in the "bootstrapability" of the business model here: What are our companions are doing?

esheron Is PaaS dead?

thx, your comment sums up the article quite good > Problem already solved, PaaS probably not needed. Is in return DigitalOcean only for hobby projects?

esheron Entering Public Beta

everyone interested in conspiracy, please read the comments over here: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/11/a_new_free_ca... when bruce schneier wrote about let's encrypt.