Blog | Scott Nonnenberg. Welcome to Cloud Foundry. Cloud Foundry - Make it Yours! Ruby On Rails and PHP Cloud Hosting PaaS | Managed Rails Development | Engine Yard Platform as a Service. Elevate Your PHP to the Cloud. This article will walk you through cloud hosting for your PHP application with Pagoda Box. It'll detail how to handle PHP dependencies, get your MySQL databases up and running (and debug locally), and customise various aspects of PHP with ease. Introduction As a developer who has been playing around with PHP since the age of 11, it's hard to remember many things that have absolutely changed the way I develop. In 2007, I picked up CodeIgniter, which made me rethink how I structure my code and use OOP to get things done.
In 2010, I began working with Git and Git Flow for teamwork and branching, but, recently, the biggest thing to change my development workflow has been one "Platform as a Service," called Pagoda Box. You might be a rockstar developer who knows how to set up a LAMP stack, but how much of your potential development time do you waste setting it up, optimizing it, securing things, locking it down, scaling resources and monitoring traffic. Step 1 - Register With Pagoda Box Summary.