Migrating From Heroku to Deploynix: A Cost and Control Upgrade for Laravel
A step-by-step runbook for moving a Laravel app off Heroku: concept mapping, pg_dump migration, queue workers, DNS cutover, and a worked cost example showing a $115/month Heroku stack replaced by a $12-24 VPS.
Sameh Elhawary
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Aug 21, 2026
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18 min read