Laravel hosting
To host your Laravel application, Simafri offers two paths: web hosting, where PHP, Composer and MySQL are ready to go, or a VPS Pro for projects that run queues and always-on services. Either way, a team that works with Laravel every day helps you move from your local machine to production.
Two paths
The right choice depends on what runs alongside your web requests. Here is how to decide.
On web hosting
Log in over SSH with your key, then pull your code with git clone into a folder outside the web root.
Run composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader, and build your assets with npm run build, either on the server or on your own machine.
Fill in your .env file with the MySQL database you created in the control panel, then run php artisan migrate --force and php artisan optimize.
Replace the domain's public_html folder with a symlink to Laravel's public folder. Our team can do this with you if needed.
In the control panel, add a cron job that runs php artisan schedule:run every minute: your scheduled commands fire right on time.
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What you get
Each domain picks its own PHP version, and the extensions Laravel expects are all there: mbstring, intl, bcmath, gd, zip, sodium, PDO MySQL.
Create your application's database in the control panel, and browse your tables in phpMyAdmin, in development and in production alike.
Notifications and password resets go out from a mailbox on your domain, over authenticated SMTP.
Your domain's SSL certificate is installed and renewed automatically: sessions and form submissions travel encrypted.
Files, database and email are copied every day to a remote site, ready to be restored.
The day your jobs or your traffic call for it, your application moves to a VPS Pro, and we help you make the move.
Laravel deploys here just as it does on your own machine: Git for the code, Composer for the dependencies, Artisan for the migrations. You keep your usual workflow, and on the Pro plan of our web hosting your first deployment happens with a technician at your side.
A worker that has to run day and night, a Redis server, a PostgreSQL database or a WebSocket server like Reverb calls for a VPS Pro. And if you would rather we ran the server for you, the Managed VPS takes care of it. For the technical details, our guide hosting a Laravel application in production covers every step.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. On Simafri web hosting, Laravel runs with PHP, Composer 2 and MySQL, and its Artisan commands run over SSH. The framework's public folder is served through a symlink, and the scheduler through a cron job.
A queue processed nonstop by queue:work needs a program that is always running: that is VPS Pro territory, where Supervisor or systemd keep it alive. On web hosting, jobs run in sync mode or through the scheduler.
VPS Pro. Web hosting offers MySQL; on a VPS, you install the PostgreSQL version your application expects, with root access.
Pro is the most popular choice: twice the power of Perso, fifty databases, unlimited domains and complimentary deployment support. Premium doubles the power again for the busiest applications.
With the Pro plan and above, a technician walks you through each step until the application is live. On a VPS, Full-Stack Assistance diagnoses with you whatever is blocking you, anywhere from the operating system to your application's code.
Tell us about your project: we will let you know whether it belongs on web hosting or a VPS, and help you get it online.
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