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Seven days, no card.
PHP hosting with a free trial
PHP hosting with a free trial on every new app: seven days, no credit card, and the same components, deploys and SSH access paying customers use.
7 days free trial
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fortrabbit is managed PHP hosting with a free trial on every new app: seven days, no credit card, on the same platform paying customers run on. A trial app books PHP, MySQL, storage, traffic, backups and jobs in any size up to a monthly cost threshold; a larger setup needs a payment method attached, which is still not charged during the trial. The trial includes git push deploys from GitHub with Composer builds, SSH and SFTP access, staging environments, an HTTPS test domain and team invites. A countdown in the dashboard shows the time left, and an e-mail goes out before the end. Without a payment method, the app, its environments and their data are deleted when the seven days are over. With one, the app keeps running and billing starts by the day for the booked components. Each new app starts its own trial, so a client demo or a weekend project gets seven days of its own.
What happens when the free trial ends
| Payment method on the app | At trial end |
|---|---|
| None, the default | App, environments and data are deleted |
| Attached during the trial | App keeps running, billing starts by the day |
Billing runs in arrears per component, from €2.50 a month for the smallest environment. The pricing page lists every plan.
Limits of the free trial
- Seven days, extended by support on request before the end.
- A setup above the monthly cost threshold needs a payment method before it can be booked.
- Several trial apps at once without a payment method get shorter trials.
- Deletion at trial end is final, so keep the code in Git and a local copy of the database.
Testing a migration on the trial
Run a copy of the current site on a trial app, check it on the test domain, and only then touch DNS. The migration guide covers the steps, and the alternatives pages carry notes per provider.
