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David Jarrin
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David Jarrin
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Posted by David Jarrin
David Jarrin
Courses Plus Student 11,182 Points

Laravel Forge vs beanstalk vs traditional hosting

I've always wanted to be able to deploy code in other ways other than just FTPing stuff to my media temple server (paying about $20/month for more or less unlimited sites at work we use beanstalk, which looks like I would at least need the $25/month plan and I would only have 2 more servers to play with before I would need to upgrade again). I see Forge offers unlimited sites for $10 a month but I'm guessing there are some caveats. So I pose the question, whats the best cheapest site that I can host and deploy code from, using git repositories?

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Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
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Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

How good of performance do you need? Heroku offers a free hosting plan, with a few limitations.

  1. Low, but reasonable for free, server performance.
  2. Only one worker
  3. Server must sleep 6 hours in a 24 hour period
  4. Server will sleep after 30 mins of inactivity (ie no requests)
  5. Server can take 10-20 seconds to load when waking up - subsequent requests are faster until server sleeps again

I believe they limit your database rows to 10,000 on the free plan too.

I'm probably missing some, but that's the general. However, as I said, it is free with no limitation on how many free sites you can have.

David Jarrin
David Jarrin
Courses Plus Student 11,182 Points
David Jarrin
David Jarrin
Courses Plus Student 11,182 Points

Yea the $25 offer looks acceptable and it looks easier to deploy from then media temple. Might not have the nice visual features of beanstalk but it would do the job!