I really, seriously recommend taking another stab at Coronium.IO - they’re platform is very solid, well thought out and the guys on the forums are really helpful. I’m an old hand programmer - many, many years experience - and I had a little trouble figuring out the setup. It’s not actually that complicated, I eventually figured out, and once it’s setup you can pretty much ignore the difficult stuff and just push new code to your server.
Seriously, give them another look. I think there’s a Coronium forum on here, too - but you should definitely get on Coronium’s own google groups (maybe they moved it.)