Hello, ZevClouders

Welcome to the ZevCloud blog.

I am Dan, one of the founders, and I am kicking this off with a short post so the next ones can be long. The blog is the company’s, but each post is written by a person on the team, with their own voice. Mine is going to be the most active for a while.

We are building ZevCloud because Nigerian developers should not have to wire a foreign card to a dollar invoice every time they ship a side project. Heroku, Vercel, Render, Railway, Fly.io are great products. They are just not priced or distributed for our market, and the friction adds up fast.

ZevCloud is what comes out of that frustration: deploy apps, databases, WordPress, static sites, and domains, billed monthly in naira through ZevPay. One dashboard, one invoice, no card-on-file gymnastics.

What you’ll see here

We will publish in five rough buckets:

• Engineering write-ups. How we think about tradeoffs, what worked, what didn’t, what changed our minds. The kind of post you bookmark even if you never use ZevCloud.
• Migration stories. Moving off cPanel. Moving off Heroku. Moving off a $200/month VPS that does not need to cost $200. Numbers and screenshots, not vibes.
• Performance debugging. Real production issues, real flame graphs, real outcomes.
• Naira tooling math. Honest pricing breakdowns for the African dev market. What a $50 bill actually costs in naira this week, and what to do about it.
• Build in public. What we shipped, what broke, what we are still arguing about.

How to follow

If you want the posts as they ship, the RSS feed is the cleanest way. Otherwise the home page is reverse-chronological and there is a tag index once we have enough posts to need it.

The bar I am holding myself to as the most active author here: would the post be useful even if ZevCloud didn’t exist? If yes, I write it. If no, it is product copy, and product copy goes on the marketing site or the docs.

See you next post.