Deployment
of PHP applications
by msurguy
Deployment/Hosting options
- Shared hosting
- VPS
- Dedicated server
- Managed VPS
- ?
Modern Deployment process
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Upload source code
- There's no #2
How does it work (ideally)?
- Code stored in a GIT repository (Github/Bitbucket/etc)
- When new code pushed, server is re-built or code is swapped
- Users shouldn't experience downtime
Options that I use
- Pagodabox
-
Forge + cloud provider
PHP - centered, modern hosting platform
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Hosts GIT repository + the application itself
- Easily scalable on demand
- Affordable
What do I host there:
laravel-tricks.com
builtwithlaravel.com
bootsnipp.com
Process
Boxfile
Allows specifying:
-
PHP version, config and extensions
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Caching/DBs
- Environment variables
- Workers
Sample Boxfile for a Laravel application:
on my github
Forge
from Laravel creator
Providers
-
Digital Ocean starts at $5/month for 512MB Ram server
- Linode ($10/month)
- Rackspace (pricing complicated)
- Amazon cloud (pricing complicated)
Simple to use
Features
- Custom stack
- Uses Github or Bitbucket for GIT storage
- Auto Deploy
- Quick starts (Laravel, Wordpress, CraftCMS)
- Recipes
- Easy SSL certificate creation
- Simple scheduling (like cron)
- Queue workers
- Monitoring (New relic)
- Daemons
Q & A
Thanks!
Deployment
By msurguy
