All three are in the same two rooms, on the same nightly copy.
Softaculous, past two hundred and sixty scripts. Fantastico De Luxe is still on the older machines for whoever learned that word first.
Every night, kept thirty days, and restored by whichever of us is calmer.
suPHP runs your code as you and nobody else. mod_security sits in front with a rule set we did not write and have not read all of.
We run your DNS beside your old host's until you are satisfied, and copy the database twice.
Read off them on 4 December.
From each company's published material, October.
| SlopHost | Zerigo | Standing Cloud | PHP Fog | Orchestra.io | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you log into | cPanel 11.30, x3 | An API | A dashboard | A dashboard | A dashboard |
| Takes a folder of files over FTP | Yes | No | No | Push, not upload | Push, not upload |
| On somebody else's cloud | No. Two rooms | Partly | Yes, and it is yours | Yes | Yes |
| Describes itself as a platform | No. A host | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Nothing in the other four columns is a criticism. Our customer showcase is not published: every version of it we built went out of date faster than we could screenshot it.
A cloud in Virginia had a Thursday. We spent the following week being asked where ours is. It is two rooms and a van.
People queued in August for a ninety-nine dollar tablet whose operating system had been discontinued six weeks earlier. Two accounts opened that month are pages meant to be read on it.
A certificate authority in the Netherlands stopped being one, and the browsers removed it faster than anybody could reissue. Nothing here was signed by it, which was luck.
Applications for the winter batch closed in October, and the accounts opened that fortnight want the same three things: Rails 3.1, a database, and a domain pointed at it before a Tuesday. A company that posts discs gave them a separate name in September and took it back twenty-three days later. Two of the pages set up here that month explain a rename.
The mail is answered by the people who run the machines, in writing. Since October some of it arrives phrased as though we were a telephone that knows four places to put a body. We answer in sentences.
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