I agree, cake is pretty easy to setup... but I feel that whatever is out there could be made better and simpler. The aim is to help out the cakephp team with donations and alleviate some pain that people experience on shared hosts. Hanging out on IRC, I've seen quite a few problems experienced on various shared hosts.
Competition is good, I mean back in the day when we had alta-vista, lycos, excite and yahoo... did we really need another search engine ;) ? On Sep 25, 8:34 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It sounds like a cool project. Specially the part about creating some > control-panel for switching Cake-cores... and of-course included > donations. > > But I wonder if the market is there for such a hosting service. > Looking at Rails (I have a feeling you are), the reason you have lots > and lots of available specialized hosting is that compared to Cake, > Rails is a pain to set up. There is very little time and effort to be > gained from choosing a Cake-host. Such a host would then compete with > all the ordinary php-hosts unless they could come up with a bunch of > cool extra feature besides the Cake core to have a clear edge. Just my > quick thoughts. > > To prevent pro-Rails spam: I know, I know. It has become a lot (no A > LOT) simpler to deploy Rails recently and it will probably keep > getting better. But looking at the past few years Rails has more or > less required special hosting and thus a lot of companies began > offering such services. > > /Martin > > On Sep 24, 10:48 pm, teknoid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is anyone aware of some decent cakephp web hosting? (google doesn't > > reveal much)... Not just some hosting that allows you to setup > > cakephp, which most php hosts do. > > > What I mean is that you upload your app, and the rest is handled for > > you... No need to setup cake core, etc. > > > As additional options in the "control panel" one would be able to pick > > the core (1.1, 1.2 trunk, 1.2 branch) and perhaps the hosting allows > > plans for X amount of apps based on various price levels. Each plans > > also includes all other typical hosting features. > > > If there's nothing great out there is anyone interested (and has > > resources) to work on such a project? > > > 13% of payment for each hosted account would be donated to CakePHP > > foundation... > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---