I have evaluated a few of the these for PHP deployments recently, here are my thoughts (from comment on the article):
Cloudfront:
Pros: Best "Heroku" for PHP. Fair pricing. Deployment process is sort of similar to Heroku
Cons: Documentation is lacking, and in some cases flat out wrong. Lacking "heroku-y" polish. Customer support needs improvement (replies to questions/bug reports were a bit gruff).
Other: Have to use Mercurial (ability to use Git is documented, but wrong [see documentation in Cons])
Kodigen:
Pros: Lots of options. Good pricing.
Cons: Lots of options. Very complicated/busy UI. Have to use in-browser code editor. Hard to find relevant documentation.
Other: Probably more for hobbyists.
All in all - for intermediate or advanced developers - there isn't really much of an advantage to using one of the mentioned PaaS vs. FTP or scripted deployments (capistrano, etc.) to regular hosting.
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I have evaluated a few of the these for PHP deployments recently, here are my thoughts (from comment on the article):
Cloudfront: Pros: Best "Heroku" for PHP. Fair pricing. Deployment process is sort of similar to Heroku Cons: Documentation is lacking, and in some cases flat out wrong. Lacking "heroku-y" polish. Customer support needs improvement (replies to questions/bug reports were a bit gruff). Other: Have to use Mercurial (ability to use Git is documented, but wrong [see documentation in Cons])
Kodigen: Pros: Lots of options. Good pricing. Cons: Lots of options. Very complicated/busy UI. Have to use in-browser code editor. Hard to find relevant documentation. Other: Probably more for hobbyists.
All in all - for intermediate or advanced developers - there isn't really much of an advantage to using one of the mentioned PaaS vs. FTP or scripted deployments (capistrano, etc.) to regular hosting.