Another $8 Million in Venture Capital Injected Into Portland

Portland based PHP Fog announced on Wednesday August 10th that they had secured $8 million in venture capital just a year after their launch. PHP Fog is a cloud hosting solution for PHP applications and web sites. The company raised $1.8 million in the second half of 2010.

PHP Fog also announced that they will be changing the company name to App Fog, with plans to support additional software tools and programming languages. PHP Fog remains the name of their primary product as of today.

From the PHP Fog blog, regarding their latest round of funding:

What does this mean for PHP developers? You will soon have access to more tools and languages than ever before. If you love PHP Fog, but ever wanted to try out Node or Ruby, you will be able to do so in a familiar way and pricing.

What does this mean for non-PHP developers? We will soon be able to provide you a compelling PaaS that fits your needs better than any other PaaS out there. We have spent a lot of time working on aspects of PaaS that other companies left behind. Git deploy, great UX, billing, the ability to have dedicated servers and share many of your own applications on those servers without worrying about sharing resources with strangers.

The entire blog post can be found here. You can also be they’ll be hiring in order to put their new investment to work. Watch their jobs page for more. More info on applying can be found here.