As someone who’s reasonably technical, but hates server deployments, etc., I love Nanobox. I’ve been using it since it was PagodaBox.
Customers (including me) on their Slack were getting pretty worried about the lack of announcements from them. I hope this means it’s going to get even better, although I know many are worried that they’ll now drop support for platforms which aren’t DigitalOcean.
- I've never felt comfortable with the command line, and only use it when I have to. I like the Nanobox will do everything for me with just a line or two (once you've created the Boxfile).
- Also, I tend to play around with a lot of small-ish ideas, so I want the ability to quickly throw something up without having to think about how I'd provision all the services, and if it did get big, I can scale it with Nanobox without having to figure out how to do it manually.
I'm in the same boat as you, I really really liked NanoBox because I could just not worry about deployment and I could stand up and tear down my whole infrastructure quickly after I was done with testing.
I was also concerned that NanoBox had gone quiet for a while, and I am a little scared of there being a DigitalOcean lock-in.
However... I love DigitalOcean and they seem to be going from strength to strength - looking at their block storage, managed databases and Kubernetes offerings as things I want to get playing with soon.
Neither of them have ever not been daily on building DigitalOcean. Both of them work on it every single day. Moisey moved to a focusing on helping Ben and board structure the business around 2014. Ben started the process of looking for a CEO to do the next part about 2 years ago, and stepped back this year. However, as mentioned, both of them are still very actively involved.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 33.3 ms ] threadCustomers (including me) on their Slack were getting pretty worried about the lack of announcements from them. I hope this means it’s going to get even better, although I know many are worried that they’ll now drop support for platforms which aren’t DigitalOcean.
- I've never felt comfortable with the command line, and only use it when I have to. I like the Nanobox will do everything for me with just a line or two (once you've created the Boxfile).
- Also, I tend to play around with a lot of small-ish ideas, so I want the ability to quickly throw something up without having to think about how I'd provision all the services, and if it did get big, I can scale it with Nanobox without having to figure out how to do it manually.
I was also concerned that NanoBox had gone quiet for a while, and I am a little scared of there being a DigitalOcean lock-in.
However... I love DigitalOcean and they seem to be going from strength to strength - looking at their block storage, managed databases and Kubernetes offerings as things I want to get playing with soon.
Excited for what the future holds for this.
[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/about/leadership/