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I have an upcoming project where all the data i'm using is in Sql Servers, i was thinking of creating a laravel project in a windows server and running an API from there. I wanted to know what would be the down sides to this? i'm using azure cloud services
Besides using Azure? Just kidding. I think the lack of documentation on running Laravel/PHP on Azure might be the biggest issue. However, that doesn't mean there isn't anything out there:
Laravel does have a SQL Server driver so connecting to an using those databases wouldn't be an issue assuming they aren't on a private network.
i was thinking of creating a laravel project in a windows server and running an API from there.
Yeah fuck that I wouldn't run any websites on Windows Servers/Azure. If it needs to be kept on SQL Server (and can't be exported) then just have the database running on it and put the host in the sqlsrv config to connect to it.
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