Laravel VPS Hosting - Offshore PHP Server Deployment

Laravel production deployments need several moving parts: PHP-FPM configured with the right OPcache settings, a MySQL or PostgreSQL database, Redis for sessions/cache/queues, a queue worker process (Laravel Horizon or plain artisan queue:work), and the scheduler running via cron. On shared hosting, you cannot choose your PHP version, cannot run persistent processes, and cannot install PECL extensions like Redis or imagick without a support ticket. A VPS removes every one of these constraints - you own the entire software stack.

Install Nginx, PHP-FPM 8.3, and required extensions: ```bash apt install nginx php8.3-fpm php8.3-mysql php8.3-redis php8.3-curl php8.3-xml php8.3-mbstring php8.3-zip unzip ``` Configure Nginx for Laravel's public directory with try_files for the front controller. Set PHP-FPM pool settings to match your VPS RAM - typically pm = dynamic with pm.max_children = (available RAM / 30MB per process). Deploy your app: ```bash composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader php artisan key:generate php artisan migrate --force php artisan config:cache php artisan route:cache php artisan view:cache ```

Laravel Horizon manages Redis-backed queue workers with a dashboard UI. Run it as a supervised process: ```bash php artisan horizon ``` Add a Supervisor configuration so Horizon restarts on failure: ```bash [program:laravel-horizon] process_name=%(program_name)s command=php /var/www/myapp/artisan horizon autostart=true autorestart=true user=www-data redirect_stderr=true stdout_logfile=/var/www/myapp/storage/logs/horizon.log ``` For the scheduler, add a single cron entry: ```bash * * * * * www-data php /var/www/myapp/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1 ``` This is the only correct way to run scheduled jobs - shared hosting environments that restrict cron granularity to 15-minute intervals will break Laravel's time-sensitive tasks.

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