[jsamuel]

Hi. Thanks for your feedback. We need to improve the site to make these things clearer.

We save you time by configuring servers initially, doing reconfiguration tasks for you, setting up and handling monitoring (e.g. of disk space, cpu, application errors), and taking care of steps that many developers forget. In general, you can take a fresh server, connect it to ServerPilot, do "create an app" through our interface, and then have a production-ready server configured for running your app.

On new servers, ServerPilot installs and configures necessary services for running your apps (nginx, apache, php, mysql), configures a firewall, automates package updates, sets up monitoring, and does a handful of other things like ensuring the system clock is updated and stays updated.

After initial server setup, we provide a web interface and APIs to create and manage apps and databases (which behind the scenes means we reconfigure services), make it easy to deploy SSL certs, and provide ways to monitor your servers and apps.

We've got many more features coming. So, if there's something that you'd like to see us do that we don't do currently, please let us know.

[jmathai]

I wonder if boiling it down into one thing up front would be an easier sell. I understand that it might not be possible but you're basically telling me use my entire infrastructure. It'd be an easier pill to swallow if I could do something to get notifications or something similar. Not sure if that's good advice, just brainstorming.

Btw, we're going through the exact same excercise.