Scaleway Functions
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EU functions, native PHP.
Scaleway Functions is a European function-as-a-service with a native PHP runtime. fortrabbit is an alternative for hosting a full PHP application rather than individual functions.
About Scaleway Functions
Scaleway Functions is the French cloud provider's function-as-a-service. It ships a native PHP runtime, kept current across recent versions, so a handler deploys with no Lambda adaptation layer. For serverless functions hosted in Europe, it is one of the few that treats PHP as first-class.
Like any FaaS, it scales to zero and bills per invocation, and the usual strings attach. Stateless handlers. A throwaway filesystem. External stores for anything that has to persist. It is built for event-driven work, not a full request-response app.
Why fortrabbit
Scaleway Functions fits discrete, event-driven PHP handlers that gain from scaling to zero. A whole application, with a framework, sessions, uploads, and background jobs, is a different animal.
fortrabbit hosts that application on always-on PHP, in the EU: Git-push deploys, a MySQL component, persistent storage. European data residency without surrendering the hosting model the framework was built for.