Laravel Hosting Compared: Forge, AWS and DigitalOcean Cost
A plain comparison of Laravel hosting options and cost: Forge, DigitalOcean, AWS and Laravel Cloud, with the hidden extras and a five-question way to choose.
Deploying and running web applications reliably: zero-downtime deployments, AWS stability, CI/CD and the developer tooling that speeds delivery up.
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A plain comparison of Laravel hosting options and cost: Forge, DigitalOcean, AWS and Laravel Cloud, with the hidden extras and a five-question way to choose.
A practical WooCommerce slow admin fix: how to find the real bottleneck with Query Monitor, then fix order storage, the options table, scheduled actions, plugins, caching and hosting.
Anthropic is giving Pro and Max users $100–$250 to try Claude Code cloud sessions. Here's how to claim it, spend it well, and dodge the billing gotchas.
git pull && composer install && php artisan migrate is not a deploy strategy — it's how live users get 500 errors mid-request.
A production deployment problem exposed deeper infrastructure issues. Here’s how I diagnosed the system, fixed the root causes, and made deployments safer.
Deployments should be boring. These articles cover the infrastructure side of shipping web applications: zero-downtime deployments, stabilising production environments on AWS, CI/CD, monitoring, and the developer tools that make delivery faster.
The approach throughout is right-sized infrastructure: reliable servers, automated deployments and backups that actually restore, before reaching for anything more complex.
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