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Seems to be back.

I liked the 3D effects on the homepage of unreal labs https://unreallabs.ai/ - so I was sure it's related to 3D engine makers, and of course great idea to have an agent for that too.

My professional life depends on PHP being alive (small hosting company). So I just have to comment and I am totally biased.

1st, of course good title for HN. But the article is indeed nuanced.

Sometimes lately, people announce to me, that they have built a SaaS App (vibe coded). When inquiring about the stack, they may not even now. It ends up to be what the AI thought will "get the job done" (Thanks for linking the response by Beberlei!). Indeed, AI seems to prefer Python and JS. That's concerning for PHP.

Yet. What I like about PHP is the simplicity. The backend can spit out HTML and it's server side rendered. When I compare that with all the setup that is required in JS to make that work - I think there is some space for this boring tech.

Looks super nice. Kinda hard to get attention here on HN. Best of luck with the project. I'll keep an eye on it.

Congrats on the launch! I have added Pushin to my hosting directory: https://www.findhost.app/pushin/ - corrections welcome.

Congrats on the launch. I added this to: https://www.findhost.app/statichost/

I've built a tool: https://www.findhost.app/use-cases/side-project/

Ah memories. Adam Wiggins, Heroku. Great marketing. IMHO to some extend not only best practices, but also limitations of the platform they had built.

Interesting to see that also this now copyright by Salesforce.

I would also assume so. But then again, we have all the new about OpenAI and Anthropic pitching for state contracts (including military use).

That is true and may have contributed why LLMS may largely have been developed in the civil sector. Reminds me of Lockheed Martin story from Acquired, where again, with interesting connections between silicon valley and LM.

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/lockheed-martin

AI can surely help you making the page more indexable. Not sure how much we want that, when it is accessible AI will just eat it. Adding to relevant forums can help, here, lowendtalk is good (I may promote FindHost there too). Currently limited in time, can not proceed with my project for a while.

Oh fancy tech, WASM, DuckDB! Looks awesome with the globe and indeed somewhat similar approach, although little overlap in data it seems. My research base was competitor data I already had floating idle in an internal document + some agent web search + manual checks on the data. I actually wanted to have some more GEO support, but getting actual data turned out to be too complicated (for initial release). Also looking glass was new to me I have to admit, fragments here: https://www.findhost.app/regions/

I had to look up what buyVDS stands for, I understand it's "Virtual Dedicated Server" - I am way more used to VPS.

Interesting thread here: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/219094/showcasing-buyvds-n... - Now I understand "John Mode".

I wonder, don't you want the site to be indexed?

I do support at a small hosting company: Even good developers often know little about hosting.

How to evaluate a hosting provider? Search for "Best PHP hosting" and you get drowned in affiliate pages. Smaller providers without marketing budget are invisible. It's so much shared hosting and so much boring VPS. There is interesting PaaS.

The project is based on internal research. This summer holidays I burned some tokens and learned some new tricks. The site is based on Astro and features Pagefind.

FindHost holds a few hundred providers. I try to focus on a maintainable list with a few providers in each section and region. There is also a heart on a couple of dozen providers I happen to know and like more. This may or may not give some signal.

I have of course not tested all hosting providers. The data is superfical, shallow in places. Categories are a bit blurry because the market is. Pricing is recorded as bands rather than figures, a price tracker rots in a week.

*Disclosure*: fortrabbit - my company - is featured too! It has its own record and a conflict-of-interest section on it. The project is therefore also a marketing stunt.

The data is CC BY 4.0 with JSON and CSV exports, and every page has a markdown twin. Contributions, corrections and additions welcome!

Some fun facts: Remember DotCloud which failed as a PaaS but shipped Docker on the way out, which is a neat parallel to Loudcloud (AWS before AWS) becoming Opsware.

Fair. Maybe just me trained to scan text if it looks AI written and immediately rejecting to read. Like, when you see this sentence with an em dash.

"The Decisions That Actually Matter" is so AI, I guess Claude. Too AI didn't read.

Hang on. Let me overthink this.

I work with Igor. He is a very talented developer. Try it out!

Half kidding feature request for HN: Mark all AI related posts so I can filter them out, when I need a pause.

Has it Git worktree support?

Nitpicking on style: hover animation on the books could not be capped by the container size and just overflow the content. Great case for page transition. Move the 3d book into the space where it will be located with single view.

Firefox user here too.

A sympathize, but my EU biz bets on US tech. We are in a tricky position now. So every 'Look ma I moved away from US big tech' post triggers me. Details: https://blog.fortrabbit.com/us-against-them

I like the historical parts of it with defunct (like dotCloud became Docker). From my space (PHP cloud) a couple of historical ones are missing: Pagoda Box (now merged into DO), CloudControl, PHP Fog, AppFog … But those are gone for a while now.

Much respect for the ambitous plan, I wish I could do such bold thinking. I am running a small PHP PaaS (fortrabbit) for more than 10 years. For me, it's not only "scratch your own itch", but also "know your audience". So, a limited feature set with a high level of abstraction can also be useful for some users > clear path.

As usual HN is my go to source for everything. Is there another thread, like "Tell HN: Bluesky is down"?

Status page says: "We are investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos" - regions maybe?

Got that too. My first reaction: Go to HN to understand what's going on. Where are the comments?

Thanks. You don't need to convince me much. I was curious to post a more controversial comment. It's my specific perspective, we run a small hosting business: German company running on American infrastructure (AWS), serving a global customer base. This is much harder to defend these days. We really don't need 'US against them' or 'EU against them'. I am writing a blog post about it.

I don't like all the 'us against them' rhetoric going on. All that European alternatives talk is not much better than America first.

Nice. For the records, there are some PHP based systems doing static file (in general, some generated, some rendered): Kirby CMS, Statamic, Jigsaw, Grav …

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