PHP cloud hosting comparison (OpenShift vs Heroku vs Fortrabbit)

I want PHP 5.6+, so I did some basic testing of those services to pick cheep and good solution to host my blog.
OpenShift because I use it and it's free for 3 small gears, it was pretty good solution few years ago.
Heroku because I used it for Ruby on Rails projects and they support multiple languages (even multiple build packs for one project)!
I used FortRabbit too, so I decided to test theirs new apps.

I used basic Laravel 5.2 with tree routes for this test:

/ - Default route that ships with Laravel installation
/test - Hits method on TestController, pass one var to view and render it
/info - This route call phpinfo()

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TL;DR

Just compare FortRabbit's and Heroku's features and prices and chose one of them.
I prefer Heroku, but it was easier to transfer to FortRabbit because of MySQL support.
You know what, I'll probably continue further research and probably transfer to Heroku or something else (eg. Digital Ocean VPS and deploy with Deployer). Right now FortRabbit is much better solution than OpenShift, step in right direction :)

OpenShift PHP 5.4 and Laravel 5.0 (current setup) vs FortRabbit PHP 5.6 and Laravel 5.2 (future setup)

OpenShift

"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch"

I'm not sure about paid version but they simply don't maintain their service. It's all about OpenShift v3 these days... But it's free, so I decided to give it a try and benchmark this setup against other opponents.

pros:

Free for 3 small gears
MySQL 5.5 with 1GB of storage (use 1 of your 3 gears)
Don't require any payment information for free plan
Simple cronjob support via predefined file structure

cons:

Idles after 24 hours
First request after idle almost always fails
You have to use 3rd party cartridges for beyond outdated default cartridges

Results (Nginx & PHP 5.6.16 @ free OpenShift - 3 gears scaled):

Path	Concurrency	Requests	Requests/sec	Failed requests	Fastest request[ms]	Slowest request [ms]
/	5	100	10.91	0	419	1384
/	10	1000	6.17	0	1036	6971
/test	5	100	9.4	0	510	821
/test	10	1000	6.3	0	1095	6790
/info	5	100	7.54	87	628	1901
/info	10	1000	3.38	95	3292	6539

Complete results files:

Heroku

If you ever worked with Rails you probably have some experience with Heroku. It's probably first service with git deploy I used.
They provide support for multiple languages, and even Apache or nginx servers for PHP. By default Heroku setups your app to use PHP 7, but you can specify desired version in composer.json and they will use that version. Also you have to setup default build pack manually or Heroku may make wrong assumption because of package.json. You have control over your services trough Procfile to set web or worker or anything else.
Main issue when transferring live project is eventual migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL if you want to stick with Heroku's default stack.

pros:

Up to date stack
Support multiple languages
You can use multiple build packs (eg. PHP and Node.js)
PostgreSQL support
GUI for ENV var
Support cron jobs via add ons
Fair pricing for smaller project, starts at $9

cons:

Don't support MySQL by default (you have to use 3rd party add-ons)
Free plan idles after 30 minutes
Free plan must idle at least 6 hours per day
For custom domain setup you have to provide payment information, even for free plan (and custom domain is free feature)

Results (Apache & PHP 7.0.1 @ free Heroku):

Path	Concurrency	Requests	Requests/sec	Failed requests	Fastest request[ms]	Slowest request [ms]
/	5	100	36.62	0	119	254
/	10	1000	83.18	0	110	1260
/test	5	100	33.64	0	121	1169
/test	10	1000	41.27	0	158	2626
/info	5	100	7.54	82	511	672
/info	10	1000	10.11	773	859	15192

Complete results files:

FortRabbit

This is PHP exclusive stack, with git deploy and it's pretty good one. New apps are great, but they lacks some features too.

2016-01-22 Update:
FortRabbit support workers for new apps now.

pros:

Up to date stack
MySQL support
GUI for managing PHP ini and PHP version
GUI for ENV var
Fair pricing for smaller projects, starts at 7€ (5€ app server + 2€ MySQL)

cons:

Don't provide free plan, so you have to pay even for testing
Currently don't support cron jobs, or workers, it's in development for new apps, but you can check one of the links here
No SSH access, so you cant run artisan commands

Results (Apache & PHP 5.6 @ 7€ instance):

Path	Concurrency	Requests	Requests/sec	Failed requests	Fastest request[ms]	Slowest request [ms]
/	5	100	29.28	0	109	687
/	10	1000	75.4	0	114	1539
/test	5	100	42.94	0	104	281
/test	10	1000	67.62	0	118	1328
/info	5	100	9.5	9	504	1822
/info	10	1000	9.49	105	902	12822

Complete results files:

Complete results on same instance with PHP 7.0:

Complete results on same 35€ instance with PHP 7.0: