Tideways

We started with tideways.io since the dot-com was taken and we needed to save some profits to afford it. Finally done! We hope the dot-com is signaling more trust, especially for people that didn't hear from us before and in addition the IO top level domain recently had a few failures and problems so we want to slowly move away.

This month we reached another miletone with 300 paying customers.

The whole team visits PHPBenelux in Antwerp this weekend, one of the best European PHP conferences. We are also sponsoring for the first time by hosting the Unconference room.

Pricing monitoring software has historically been per host pricing all the way. But with Docker and our desire to support Staging and Development environments as well as PHP applications usually being vertically scaled this pricing approach seemed to be based on the wrong value metric. We dabbled with per request pricing, but customers didn't like that they couldn't estimate their costs up front. So now we launched a per application pricing, where customers can pick different plans for each application depending on how much insight / observability they want into the application.

https://tideways.com/profiler/blog/introducing-unlimited-request-plans

It takes a while to get all the papers done and now its official, we are live: https://tideways.com/profiler/blog/launching-the-tideways-company

We went to the notary today signing the papers to found the Tideways GmbH, a german limited cooperation.