Filament, one of the most popular open source Laravel packages with 23 million installs, migrated from Laravel Forge to Laravel Cloud and achieved 3x faster request speeds. The migration took just three hours and unlocked autoscaling, one-click Laravel Octane via FrankenPHP, Serverless Postgres, and managed Valkey caching. Day-to-day infrastructure shrank from an 8GB/8CPU server to 2GB replicas that scale up to 10 during traffic spikes and back down automatically. The serverless database also resolved a recurring issue where hourly demo data resets degraded live user experience. While Cloud costs are comparable or slightly higher, the capabilities gained — autoscaling, managed database, Octane, worker clusters — would have required managing at least 4x more servers on Forge.
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# What Is Filament: Scale and Challenges# Unlocking One-Click Octane with Cloud# Moving to Autoscaling Infrastructure by Default# Migrating to Cloud in Three Hours as a First-Time User# Infrastructure Costs in Context# Try Laravel Cloud1 Comment
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