PHPFogが今年いっぱいでサービス提供を終了

今朝PHPFogからこんなメールが来ていました。

Dear Fogger,

It is with a heavy heart that I let you know that the PHP Fog service will be discontinued in December in favor of AppFog, which is PHP Fog 2.0. I am incredibly sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you.

Creating PHP Fog has been an amazing experience for us and it could not have happened without you––thank you for your support. With your help, we’ve built an amazing PaaS for PHP developers. And along the way, we’ve applied what we’ve learned to creating our new product, AppFog.

AppFog is the future of our business, and we very strongly believe it is also the future of PaaS. So, in order to focus our team and efforts on continuing to build a better solution for developers, we will be shutting down the PHP Fog platform this coming January and focusing solely on AppFog.

We have considered this change very, very carefully because we understand that this could present challenges for some of our users. But in the end, we are confident that moving to AppFog will give you additional flexibility, additional languages, additional infrastructures, and the ability to deploy your apps to private cloud infrastructure as well as leverage the strengths of the OpenStack and Cloud Foundry ecosystems.

To help in the migration, we will do be doing everything we can to help this be as easy and painless as possible:
2GB of RAM in our Free Plan
We will be releasing a series of blog posts that walk you through the migration to AppFog.
We will also be publishing documentation of the migration path as well as solutions for some of the edge-case differences between the platforms.
To start with, we have created a migration FAQ that should help you begin the migration process.

I am committed to making AppFog a product that will make you look back at PHP Fog and think, “I’m really happy I switched.”

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Yours,
Chad

今年１２月を以って、PHPFogのサービスは廃止し、今後はAPPFogへ力を入れていくようです。
いや、この間PHPFogにデプロイしたばっかりなんだけど・・・
FluxFlexに続いて使い始めてすぐ停止が今年２回目なんだけど・・・
PaaS界隈は結構混沌としてますなー。

APPFogは無料範囲のスペックがPHPFogより上(Freeで2GB RAM)だったり、PHP以外のプラットフォームにも対応している。
PHPFogの実績と反省がAppFogに反映されていますとか言ってるけど、専用言語PaaSって運営が難しいのかもね。

ユーザ数増やすなら多言語に対応してた方がユーザ囲みやすいだろうけど、herokuとかと同じ土俵に立つことになるので、それはそれでどうなんだろう。
専用言語PaaSは○○言語ならそこ一択と言われるぐらいじゃないと厳しいと思う。

ちなみにPHPFogを廃止のお詫びにAPPFogへの移行方法をまとめてくれているようなので、年内中にPHPFogからAPPFogに移行して当ブログにフィードバックしますねー