Google Cloud Run
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Containers that scale to zero.
Google Cloud Run runs PHP containers that scale to zero and bill per use. fortrabbit is an alternative for teams that would rather not build and maintain a container.
About Google Cloud Run
Cloud Run is Google's serverless container platform. It runs any container, scales it to zero when idle, and bills only while a request is in flight. The scale-to-zero end of serverless, minus the function model. PHP runs as an ordinary container, usually php-fpm with nginx or a FrankenPHP build.
Language-agnostic containers make it portable. That portability has a price, and the price is the container. A Dockerfile to write and keep current. An image registry. The surrounding Google Cloud services to wire up. And scale-to-zero still buys a cold start on the first request after a quiet spell.
Why fortrabbit
Cloud Run fits a team already living in containers and Google Cloud that wants per-use billing. It hands over the runtime but keeps the packaging. Nothing runs until someone has built an image, and keeps building it.
fortrabbit drops that step. PHP is a first-class citizen here, not a container to assemble. Push code with Git and it runs, with a MySQL component, persistent storage, and PHP version switching built in. No Dockerfile, no registry, no cold start after a quiet hour.