Affordable and fast PHP hosting
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A new generation of PHP web developers is looking for a modern more sophisticated, scalable cloud hosting. The fortrabbit PHP hosting platform is the solution you can trust.
This is not classical PHP VPS or server hosting. We are running an optimized PHP cloud hosting stack. PHP-based websites and web applications are running very fast and secure. But we not only customize our servers for the best PHP hosting performance, we also allow more PHP options than any other hosting company. With fortrabbit PHP hosting you can easily add multiple PHP modules and choose among various PHP versions for your account.
fortrabbit is an application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) — that's a fancy way to says: self-service cloud hosting service. It automates the configuration, deployment and ongoing management — time- and therefore money saving. Use it during development and to host mission critical applications in production.
Our easy to use web control panel is very different to cPanel, Webmin, Virtualmin or ISPConfig 3. We focus only on one thing the best PHP hosting for professionals. It mostly feels like LAMP hosting, but it's far more advanced — still affordable.
# PHP is PHPantastic
PHP (recursive acronym for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) is the most popular web programming language among web developers. As a key part of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), PHP is found on Linux servers are powering the web. CMS systems like Joomla, WordPress, or Drupal and frameworks like Laravel, Symfony, CakePHP, Zend, Agavi are based on it. A large number popular websites, including Facebook and Wikipedia, are written in PHP.
In the early days of the internet, websites were stagnant and dull. However, PHP brought about a revolution by allowing developers to create dynamic content that adapts and changes based on user input, transforming the web into an interactive playground. For example, consider an e-commerce website. With the help of PHP, developers can offer personalized product recommendations, update shopping carts, and provide secure checkout processes, which all add up to a seamless and engaging user experience. It's like having a personal shopping assistant who knows your preferences and handpicks items tailored to your tastes.
PHP is powering over 78% of websites on the internet. WordPress, the world's most popular content management system, is built on PHP and empowers more than 43% of all websites globally. The social media giant, Facebook, connects billions of people worldwide.
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# Made for a modern PHP
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You know what they say: PHP is a double claw hammer. And when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. True is that PHP is traditionally used to build all kind of Pretty Home Pages. With an ongoing PHP renaissance the language and the community have evolved. It's just not about websites anymore; it's about backends, frontends, APIs — web applications. The fortrabbit hosting platform is hosting a new mindset of PHP developers. The toolset is optimized for a modern PHP!
# App architecture
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Figure above: The app holds two environments: production and staging. Each environment is a fully isolated hosting runtime. It has components booked. In this case PHP, MySQL, Redis, Workers. The production environment has the components scaled up to serve more traffic.
# Topology of an app
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# Supported software
Here is only a small collection of popular PHP software, all open source, some free, some with a license fee. All run fast on fortrabbit. Find CMS software, e-commerce, as well as more bare bone frameworks. fortrabbit will run almost all PHP based software that supports a LAMP stack, PHP 8 and upwards.
- CMS: WordPress, ProcessWire, Kirby CMS, Joomla!, Bludit, Drupal, Bolt, TYPO3, Pico CMS, PyroCMS, ButterCMS, SilverStripe
- Frameworks: Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, Yii