Bringing Symfony 2 to the cloud.. perhaps.
It’s been quite a while since I last posted a blog on here, so I figured I could write about my new side project to keep you guys busy. ;)
About 8 months ago I wrote about Symfony 2 because I wanted to use it for the Luister.us project (which has been put into the fridge for now, I’m simply to busy with paid work to develop such a large project on the side). Since then I’ve been trying out some stuff with Symfony 2 and I’ve been looking at other PHP frameworks too. All in all I must see, even though I’m still an unexperienced user, Symfony 2 is still my favorite framework from all the ones I’ve looked at (including Flow3, Lithium, Kohana, CakePHP and many others). I guess I’m a big fan of the concept behind the framework and their approach to things. And while the documentation of other PHP frameworks often appeared to be far from complete or was outdated, the Symfony 2 docs are actively maintained and very easy to understand.
Enough about Symfony 2 for now, let’s talk about getting your web application to the end-user, in other words, putting everything online. For a future project I was looking for tips and blogs about scaling a Symfony application and I came across a guide from Pagoda Box. They offer scalable web-hosting, as they call it themselves, and I figured, that’s what my client might need! You can try their service for free, so I decided to give it a try.
