About PaaS
An introduction to Platform as Service hosting and which cases fortrabbit can be an alternative.
Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a cloud computing model that provides a 'platform' for hosting all kind of applications. It allows developers to build, test, and deploy applications without the need for infrastructure management. This reduces the time and cost associated with setting up and maintaining bare metal hosting infrastructure and maintaining the servers (sysops, devops).
In cloud computing acronyms, IaaS is the ground level, on top of that is PaaS, the last layer is SaaS.
Fueled by the initial success of Heroku, it was predicted that PaaS will replace most classical hosting. That didn't happened. Many PaaS startups failed. So the term Platform as a Service has a bad reputation. But today there are plenty of new specialized PaaS-like cloud hosting solutions, though they don't call themselves like that any more.
PaaS is professional, usually language agnostic, containerized, service oriented cloud hosting. The boundaries are blurred.
# Why fortrabbit
fortrabbit is positioned between PaaS, vanity hosting and shared hosting. fortrabbit is not language agnostic and has a higher grade of abstraction than PaaS. Consider fortrabbit if you are a freelancer, agency or startup. fortrabbit is good at hosting PHP websites and web applications.