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Deploying AI-Powered Laravel Apps: Queues, Streaming, Timeouts

Deploying AI-Powered Laravel Apps: Queues, Streaming, Timeouts

LLM calls run 30-120 seconds and break every default your Laravel server ships with. Queue and Horizon configuration, Nginx streaming, end-to-end timeout budgets, retry safety, and cost tracking for AI workloads in production.

Sameh Elhawary · Jul 16, 2026 · 16 min read
Your Deploy Pipeline Is an Attack Surface

Your Deploy Pipeline Is an Attack Surface

In May 2026, 700+ compromised Laravel-Lang package versions shipped a credential stealer through Composer. Here's how to harden your Laravel deploy pipeline: --no-scripts, allow-plugins, lockfile discipline, scoped deploy keys, and a full incident checklist.

Sameh Elhawary · Jul 16, 2026 · 17 min read
Cloud Repatriation for Laravel: From AWS to a $10 VPS

Cloud Repatriation for Laravel: From AWS to a $10 VPS

37signals saved ~$10M leaving AWS, and 86% of CIOs plan to pull workloads back. Here's what your EC2 + RDS + NAT + egress bill really buys a Laravel app, the VPS architecture that replaces it, and a step-by-step migration playbook with a safe DNS cutover.

Sameh Elhawary · Jul 15, 2026 · 16 min read
FrankenPHP in Production on a Plain VPS: The Real Setup

FrankenPHP in Production on a Plain VPS: The Real Setup

A hands-on guide to running FrankenPHP with Laravel Octane on a plain Ubuntu VPS: installation, a production systemd unit, the Nginx handoff, worker mode gotchas, and the cases where PHP-FPM is still the right call.

Sameh Elhawary · Jul 15, 2026 · 16 min read
SQLite in Production for Laravel: When One File Wins

SQLite in Production for Laravel: When One File Wins

The honest guide to running SQLite in production for Laravel: the WAL config that matters, backups that don't corrupt, Litestream replication, the atomic-deploy gotcha, and the signals that it's time to move to MySQL or Postgres.

Sameh Elhawary · Jul 15, 2026 · 14 min read
Upgrading to Laravel 13 in Production with Zero Downtime

Upgrading to Laravel 13 in Production with Zero Downtime

A production playbook for upgrading to Laravel 13 without downtime: PHP pre-flight checks, Composer strategy, additive migrations, atomic symlink deploys, worker restarts, and a rollback plan that actually works.

Sameh Elhawary · Jul 14, 2026 · 15 min read
Migrating Laravel from Railway, Render, or Fly.io to a VPS

Migrating Laravel from Railway, Render, or Fly.io to a VPS

A step-by-step runbook for moving a Laravel app off Railway, Render, or Fly.io onto your own VPS: env export, database migration, cutover, rollback plan, and a before/after cost comparison.

Sameh Elhawary · Jul 14, 2026 · 16 min read
The New Laravel Forge, Nine Months Later: An Honest Review

The New Laravel Forge, Nine Months Later: An Honest Review

Forge 2.0 shipped zero-downtime deploys by default, a $6/mo Laravel VPS, and Organizations. Nine months on, here's an honest practitioner's review: what genuinely improved, where the fine print bites, and how it reshapes the Forge-alternative decision.

Sameh Elhawary · Jul 14, 2026 · 12 min read
Laravel Cloud's $5 Plan vs a $5 VPS: The Real Cost Math

Laravel Cloud's $5 Plan vs a $5 VPS: The Real Cost Math

Laravel Cloud's new $5 Starter tier with scale-to-zero hibernation sounds like it kills the $5 VPS. We run the honest 12-month cost math for a real Laravel app, queues, scheduler, database and all, and show exactly where each option wins.

Sameh Elhawary · Jul 14, 2026 · 13 min read
Self-Hosted PaaS Showdown 2026: Coolify vs Dokploy vs CapRover vs Deploynix

Self-Hosted PaaS Showdown 2026: Coolify vs Dokploy vs CapRover vs Deploynix

Coolify vs Dokploy vs CapRover vs Deploynix, compared for 2026 — an honest, data-backed breakdown of GitHub adoption, Docker vs native models, pricing, and which self-hosted PaaS fits your stack, plus where a managed Laravel-first control plane changes the math.

Sameh Elhawary · Jun 21, 2026 · 13 min read
Laravel Telescope vs Pulse vs Nightwatch (2026): Which Should You Use?

Laravel Telescope vs Pulse vs Nightwatch (2026): Which Should You Use?

Laravel Telescope, Pulse, and Nightwatch aren't competitors — they solve different problems. A 2026 guide to what each does, current Nightwatch pricing, and which to use.

Sameh Elhawary · Jun 18, 2026 · 10 min read
Running Artisan Commands Across Tenants: A Guide to tenants:run (stancl/tenancy)

Running Artisan Commands Across Tenants: A Guide to tenants:run (stancl/tenancy)

There's no tenants:artisan command in stancl/tenancy — the one you want is tenants:run. A practical guide to running Artisan commands across every tenant.

Sameh Elhawary · Jun 17, 2026 · 9 min read

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