Managed Hosting for laravel

Maybe Forge: https://forge.laravel.com/ ?

I use both Forge and Envoyer with Digital Ocean for all of my Laravel projects (about 13 so far) and it makes life very easy.

Forge and envoyer should be your best friend.

Hook forge into your provider (digital ocean, linode etc.) few clicks and it sets up your server. Basically same as homestead.

Set up free ssl certs, cron jobs and other basics with a few clicks.

You can deploy from git via forge too but envoyer makes it easier. Plus it keeps last 5 successful deployments. And if a new deployment fails your site never goes offline, just fails and keeps current version going.

Envoyer also has web hooks to run commands on deploy too. First deployment you may want to run migrations and seeders etc. where any updates you probably won't. Also set your env file with copy paste in envoyer.

Little learning curve but after the first deployment and set up should take minutes for any other app, plus updates through envoyer is either triggered by pushing to git branch specified or one button click.

The main thing is forge sets up 99% of the server software for you. If you don't use envoyer you may need to ssh into the server to run commands. Utilizing envoyer I haven't needed to. But long running process like npm install (90% not required) envoyer may time out.

Raziel79 is looking for a managed server, Forge is not managed.

Fortrabbit is a nice managed alternative to Forge.

Yes for me managed is best for my project in this case i don't want to be an IT administrator.

@jekinney so if i decide to buy a forge account i need to buy also a linode account so 10$/mo (forge) + almost 5$ /mo (for minimal linode pack), is it right?

@raziel79 Yes you need both forge account and also a VPS account. Linode, Digital Ocean or Custom VPS. Forge just provides the management.

ook thank you all m8 !

now i have two alternatives,

1. Forge + Linode (or digital ocean) - Not managed
2. Fortrabbit - managed

Thx ;))