How to Deploy a Laravel App in Under 10 Minutes with Serverfy

Before You Start

To follow this guide, you'll need:

• A Serverfy account (sign up takes 30 seconds)
• An API key from your cloud provider (DigitalOcean, AWS, Hetzner, Vultr, Linode, or UpCloud)
• A Laravel application in a GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repository

Step 1: Connect Your Cloud Provider (1 minute)

After logging in, navigate to Settings → Cloud Providers and paste your API key. Serverfy validates the credentials instantly — no waiting.

Step 2: Provision a Server (5 minutes)

Click Create Server, choose your provider, region, and size. Serverfy automatically installs and configures:

• Nginx — optimized for Laravel
• PHP 8.3 — with OPcache and required extensions
• MySQL 8 or PostgreSQL 16
• Redis — for cache and queues
• UFW firewall + Fail2ban + SSH hardening

The entire server is provisioned and secured in about 5 minutes. No SSH needed.

Step 3: Create a Site & Connect Git (2 minutes)

On your server dashboard, click Add Site. Enter your domain, select your repository, and choose the branch to deploy from. Serverfy automatically:

• Configures the Nginx virtualhost
• Issues a free SSL certificate via Let's Encrypt
• Sets up your deployment pipeline

Step 4: Deploy (1 minute)

Click Deploy. Serverfy runs your deployment pipeline:

1. Pulls the latest code from your repository
2. Runs composer install --no-dev
3. Runs php artisan migrate --force
4. Builds assets if configured
5. Swaps the release atomically — zero downtime

If anything fails, Serverfy automatically rolls back to the previous working release.

Step 5: Set Up Auto-Deploy (30 seconds)

Enable Auto Deploy on your site settings. Now, every push to your deploy branch triggers an automatic zero-downtime deployment. Your CI/CD pipeline is ready.

What You Just Configured

That's it. Your Laravel app is live, secured, and deploying automatically. No DevOps engineer required.