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'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.
- 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.
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.
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.