Well, my “friends” (bad choice of word, sorry) are actually developers and resellers that are members in Loopia’s private FB group The Loopia Reseller Lounge.
Many of them only work with PHP using like Wordpress or Laravel but i know that one of Loopia’s biggest issue is that they don’t support Node.js so many resellers stick with PHP even if they wanted to offer their customers Node.js sites.
This means that many of Loopia’s customers/ resellers are looking for other places to put only their site with an DNS A record to a server that they can run Node.js applications on.
Of course this is not an “end of the world problem” but i know that many like my self want a service like Cleavr to have a safe, easy and flexible non terminal solution to be able to offer Loopia’s customers Node.js sites.
Loopia has been Swedens biggest hosting provider for a long time and the have grown. This is Google translated text from Computersweden (2019-07-31) so it will certainly have bad grammar and what not:
"Major investment Loopia has bought Binero’s web hosting operations in Sweden and Germany for SEK 380 million, and now controls a large part of the Swedish market for domains and web hosting.
Earlier in the year, Loopia Group acted aggressively through the acquisition of .SE Direkt with 116,000 domain names in Sweden on 12 February and of Websupport, which is the largest web hosting provider in Slovakia, on 31 March. And Active24 already has operations in the Czech Republic and Spain.
And now, in the middle of the holiday, Västerås-based Loopia took the opportunity to make another acquisition. And also this time, the company’s owner, the venture capital company Axcel, chose to act within Sweden and that by buying the competitor Binero’s operations in web hosting and domain names in the form of subscriptions aimed at small and medium-sized companies and private individuals. The price tag landed at SEK 380 million."
I can imagine there are a lot of both developers in The Loopia Reseller Lounge and also Loopia customers that build their own sites that would be interested in a service like Cleavr. I used Plesk in a very complicated way to be able to run my customers Node.js sites but i’m not looking to present a hosting system with mail accounts and domain handling and what not to Loopia since that their own prime business. I want to give their customers a possibility to solve this like i do, managing Node.js sites with an external service that not forces me to do most stuff in the terminal and with no “build in features”.
I just think Cleavr is the “goto service” for Node.js and adding more features would make it easier to promote. And if services would have a “I’m in Sweden” type of way of handling for example Canary ping it would be awesome.
I know that after all expansions Loopia have their hands full with migrations and other technical stuff so producing a function to be able to offer Node.js support directly in their service will probably not happen for years.
