Forge alternatives

Digital Ocean? Eg, https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-api-to-deploy-droplets-from-a-master-snapshot

I like that. I am looking for a more generalised point a click solution that will work with aws and digital ocean but I will check that out. Thanks

You could use Ansible http://www.ansible.com to provision your servers and use a site like http://phansible.com to click together your desired software packages.

As @florianbeer says - you can use Ansible (or Puppet/Chef) to make a module which will build the desired type of server from your base - once you've done it you can pretty much point'n'click your way. I know puppet best, so you can do something like :

class webserver {
  package { "apache2":
    ensure => installed
  }

  service { "apache2":
    ensure => running,
    enable => true,
    require => Package['apache2'],
   }
}

class mysqlserver {
  package { "mysql-server":
    ensure => installed,
  }

  service { "mysql":
    ensure => running,
    enabled => true,
    require => Package['mysql-server']
  }
}

...

node server1 {
    include "webserver"
}

node server2 {
    include "webserver"
    include "mysqlserver"
}

Thanks, I didn't realise that was what Phansible was! So much control and yet so simple to use :)

Support could be the biggest advantage to Laravel Forge... I mean, is there even any support? I have written about 4-5 emails and never even received an answer...

@cat24max no support at all. I've also sent in a couple of emails/messages. No reply.

The idea behind these deployment services is actually quite simple. The work going on behind the scenes is not as technical as it might seem. Sure, they're very polished and perfect if you don't want to write your own or waste time to mess with servers, however, we created our own basic platform within a few hours.

I didn't mind paying for Forge, some of the funds will go back into developing Laravel, but we didn't use it as much as we thought and with little to no OOB customisation of the deployment script it was not suitable for all of the servers we managed. Add in no support, we decided it was enough for us to develop our own. It's disheartening to be ignored when you're paying for the service, regardless of little the reply needs to be.

Is there any free things for deploy? sorry for my silly question...

@victormongi yes there is free plan with ServerPilot

@VICTORMONGI - You can also try https://cleavr.io

@sotekno Your link to https://moss.sh/ really helped me.

I wanted to implement a Laravel site via Digital Ocean and was having some difficulty with Laravel Forge, so did some searching here on Laracasts, and while doing that came across this thread

I checked out https://moss.sh/ was inpressed by the docs and tutorials ... PLUS they have ONLINE CHAT for support ... and I chatted with a real live person ... a very knowledgeable and helpful person.

I went ahead and implemented my site using Moss and had it up and running perfectly in no time.

https://moss.sh/ is well worth considering.

So far, I only found one best alternative to laravel forge, https://getcleaver.com/ . I can't describe how happy I was deploying my laravel app without any hassle. Definitely give it a try, first 30 days are free and very reasonable pricing. Only $30.

Not for a month, its for one year. I couldn't believe that when I saw it. I know you guys probably thinking why am I supporting this soo much. Because at one time I tried to create something like this for myself and was very complex and hard for me.

This thread is filled with people who are obviously shilling for some web services. There should be a rule where people need to identify themselves as having some sort of business relationship with these sites instead of pretending to just be customers.