You want to build your custom VPS and deploy your code easily? You can consider building git deploy solution with git hooks and scripts on your server or you can go with something Ruby developers do for a while, execute a bunch of commands over ssh. As someone who is…
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…
First of all I want to have my git history in place for each file. This leads me to the slightly different approach during migration than official upgrade guide suggest. Official upgrade guide is safest way to migrate your project, but you can try to adjust it and preserve history.…
You want to modernize your assets compilation before you switch to Laravel 5? Elixir is great tool on top of Gulp, and you can use it for anything with little configuration. Here is my setup for Laravel 4.2 which can be easily adapted to any other framework. Setup node,…
You can't run Laravel 5.1 on OpenShift by default, because it requires PHP >= 5.5.9, and OpenShift provides just PHP 5.4 support. So if you want to run small presentation or test your app for free, using OpenShift Free Plan, you have to do a lot…