Rethinking Managed Cloud Hosting with HostingAdvice

We recently partnered with HostingAdvice, an expert-driven resource offering reviews, tutorials, and in-depth guides to help users choose and manage web hosting solutions. Together, we explored a core aspect of the Divio Platform: helping developers and agencies focus on building rather than infrastructure management. The result is a full article hosted on HostingAdvice that explores how managed cloud hosting is evolving through automation, containerization, and a more human-first approach to tooling.

In the piece, our COO, Joel Burch, shares how Divio grew from an agency building complex Django applications into a product company, offering cloud management solutions combined with an Application Delivery Platform (PaaS) built to solve the exact pain points our developers used to experience themselves.

Here’s a quick look at what we covered:

• Why containerization isn’t just for big teams or complex stacks. It’s part of your daily workflow, even if you don’t realize it.

• How automation frees developers from repetitive infrastructure tasks, from backups to deployments to logs.

• What we mean when we say “managed cloud hosting should do more than just keep your apps online”.

• The story behind Divio’s shift from agency to Platform, and why that background still shapes how we build today.

• A real-world example of how Social Schools scaled fast with Divio’s Mirror feature and automation workflows

It’s a great read if you’re thinking about how to simplify infrastructure, improve your team’s speed, or just want a clearer picture of what container-based hosting can actually do for your apps.

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