Thanks for using WarpSpeed. The articles and screencasts on this site will help you learn how to use WarpSpeed to quickly and easily provision servers and deploy your code.
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WarpSpeed is a server management tool that makes it easy to provision new servers, create sites, and deploy your code. We believe that WarpSpeed solves 80%+ of web deployment use cases. It also helps encourage best practices including version control with Git, Git deployment, and matching your development environment with your production environment. WarpSpeed was developed out of a need that wasn’t being met by other available solutions.
WarpSpeed supports the following:
One of the great things about WarpSpeed is that you can use all of these different languages together on one server in harmony.
WarpSpeed is a bring-your-own-host server management tool. Currently, Digital Ocean or Linode are supported.
All of your hosting fees are paid directly to your server host. WarpSpeed just makes it easy to manage the provisioning of servers, the creation of sites, and the deployment of your code. All WarpSpeed servers start out with base Ubuntu 14.04 install, as provided by your host, and then the WarpSpeed provisioning scripts are run on the base image.
First of all, know that it is in your hosts best interest for you to have one server per site you deploy. You want a ghost blog, use a new image. Want to run wordpress, use a new image. Want to host your ruby project, yet another server. This is seriously a total waste. Shared hosting providers put hundreds of sites on a server that looks much like your VPS. Also, think about some of these things…
Any software developer that is hosting personal or small business websites in HTML, Node, PHP, Python, or Ruby can streamline their development and deployment process by using WarpSpeed. We believe that WarpSpeed will meet the needs of 80%+ of web deployment use cases.
WarpSpeed certainly isn’t a fit for all deployment scenarios. If you are developing a site that is expecting huge amounts of traffic, you need to scale quickly, or you have 99.99% uptime requirements then WarpSpeed is not the right choice. You will likely need load balancers, many redundant servers, elastic cloud resources, etc. WarpSpeed simply isn’t designed to handle these types of sites, and in our calculations, these cases account for less than 20% deployment scenarios. However, if you have a small to medium site that you would like to grow into something great, WarpSpeed can be a great start that will help you keep more money in your bank account.
One of the very best things about WarpSpeed is that all the provisioning and deployment scripts are open source. This is also a huge differentiator since most of our competitors keep their scripts private. We prefer to provide a transparent service that is affordable and saves you a lot of time.
All of the scripts are written in Bash and have been organized and templated carefully. We have done our best to attain the best compromise between locking down your server and still making things usable. Please check out the scripts and feel free to make suggestion if you think we can do better.
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