Heroku alternative for PHP hosting

# About Heroku

Heroku is a rock star. It created PaaS for hosting Ruby on Rails applications, and it gave us the twelve-factor app manifesto and "git push to deploy". Then it grew and was acquired by Salesforce. So it lost momentum. The free tier went away in 2022, and the next-generation runtime is reserved for Private Spaces.

Today, more modern PaaS-like providers fill the gap. Render, Fly.io and Railway are competing for former Heroku clients.

# Why not Heroku?

Heroku must make sure it can run Ruby, Java, Python, Node and whatnot, and that does not come without trade-offs. MySQL is a third-party add-on with its own account. Heroku is for enterprise clients. Does a CRM giant care about a small Laravel app? We doubt it.

# Why fortrabbit

Consider fortrabbit if you are looking for a higher grade of abstraction. PHP runs in our veins. Our mission is to bring PHPower to the PHPeople. We were one of the first PHP PaaS providers (along with cloudControl and PHP Fog, both RIP) with native Composer integration. In fact, we offered PHP before Heroku did. We push for modern development and deployment practices, but treat legacy workflows respectfully. MySQL is an integrated component.

Both platforms are managed, so you can focus on code instead of servers, and both deploy with git push. We are serious about hosting and yet closer to you: freelancer, digital agency and startup. So we think we can give you better support.

# Heroku and fortrabbit