Laravel Forge

Laravel Forge is a developer-focused server management and deployment platform designed to simplify provisioning, configuration, and deployment workflows for Laravel and PHP applications running on cloud infrastructure providers such as DigitalOcean, Hetzner, AWS, Vultr, Linode, and Laravel VPS. Rather than acting as a traditional hosting provider, Forge serves as a centralized control plane that automates server setup, Nginx configuration, SSL provisioning, deployments, queue workers, cron jobs, backups, and monitoring while allowing developers to maintain full ownership of their infrastructure.

The platform is deeply integrated into the Laravel ecosystem and supports Git-based zero-downtime deployments, queue management, health checks, role-based access control, real-time metrics, and support for Nuxt and Next.js applications. Forge is particularly popular among Laravel agencies, SaaS startups, freelancers, and engineering teams that want more flexibility and lower infrastructure costs than fully managed platforms while avoiding the complexity of manually managing Linux servers.