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PHP for Small Teams
Stop fighting your infrastructure. Start shipping.
PHP for Small Teams
Stop fighting your infrastructure. Start shipping.
You search "PHP deployment" and get told to learn Docker, set up Kubernetes, implement GitHub Actions pipelines, and adopt GitOps practices.
Most small teams don't need any of this.
You don't need Netflix's infrastructure. You need to ship your application, keep it running, and sleep at night knowing you can fix things when they break.
I make decisions so you don't have to research every option. When there's a better way, I tell you.
From local development to production operations. Not just "how to deploy" but "how to run the whole thing."
Your code on your servers. No vendor lock-in, no per-seat pricing, no surprise bills.
Every tool has a cost. This guide adds only what you need and explains what to skip.
You should know PHP and be comfortable in a terminal. You don't need prior DevOps experience.
A single Laravel Forge subscription is $19/month. That's $228/year.
GitHub Team is $4/user/month. For a 5-person team, that's $240/year - and you still don't control your code.
This guide pays for itself in under 4 months of saved subscriptions. The skills transfer to every project forever.