Articles in the year 2021
Goodbye Forge, Hello Ploi
When it first launched, Laravel Forge was the easiest and cheapest way to deploy a Laravel application onto a custom server. Recently, after repeatedly being presented with upgrade banners for new features, I decided to investigate the alternatives before committing to a higher fee. Happily, I stumbled upon Ploi.
At first I was skeptical that anyone could compete with the Laravel Core team who manage the established and stable product that is Laravel Forge, but over a few short hours I was increasingly convinced that Ploi was not only a suitable alternative, but hands down the better offering. Here's what finally changed my mind, made me switch all my sites and end my Forge subscription.
When it first launched, Laravel Forge was priced at $10 a month for unlimited servers, sites and services. This was an amazing and probably somewhat underpriced offering. It was incredible to be able to launch a Laravel site with a few clicks and forget about server management entirely. No more digging around in Nginx config files and hours spent installing the latest version of this or that version of PHP. Over time, more features were added for team functionality. I didn't upgrade because I didn't need access to these features. Later, the basic subscription price was increased slightly for new users, but the fee for users on existing plans remained the same.
When it first launched, Laravel Forge was the easiest and cheapest way to deploy a Laravel application onto a custom server. Recently, after repeatedly being presented with upgrade banners for new features, I decided to investigate the alternatives before committing to a higher fee. Happily, I stumbled upon Ploi.
At first I was skeptical that anyone could compete with the Laravel Core team who manage the established and stable product that is Laravel Forge, but over a few short hours I was increasingly convinced that Ploi was not only a suitable alternative, but hands down the better offering. Here's what finally changed my mind, made me switch all my sites and end my Forge subscription.
When it first launched, Laravel Forge was priced at $10 a month for unlimited servers, sites and services. This was an amazing and probably somewhat underpriced offering. It was incredible to be able to launch a Laravel site with a few clicks and forget about server management entirely. No more digging around in Nginx config files and hours spent installing the latest version of this or that version of PHP. Over time, more features were added for team functionality. I didn't upgrade because I didn't need access to these features. Later, the basic subscription price was increased slightly for new users, but the fee for users on existing plans remained the same.
When it first launched, Laravel Forge was the easiest and cheapest way to deploy a Laravel application onto a custom server. Recently, after repeatedly being presented with upgrade banners for new features, I decided to investigate the alternatives before committing to a higher fee. Happily, I stumbled upon Ploi.
At first I was skeptical that anyone could compete with the Laravel Core team who manage the established and stable product that is Laravel Forge, but over a few short hours I was increasingly convinced that Ploi was not only a suitable alternative, but hands down the better offering. Here's what finally changed my mind, made me switch all my sites and end my Forge subscription.
When it first launched, Laravel Forge was priced at $10 a month for unlimited servers, sites and services. This was an amazing and probably somewhat underpriced offering. It was incredible to be able to launch a Laravel site with a few clicks and forget about server management entirely. No more digging around in Nginx config files and hours spent installing the latest version of this or that version of PHP. Over time, more features were added for team functionality. I didn't upgrade because I didn't need access to these features. Later, the basic subscription price was increased slightly for new users, but the fee for users on existing plans remained the same.
At first I was skeptical that anyone could compete with the Laravel Core team who manage the established and stable product that is Laravel Forge, but over a few short hours I was increasingly convinced that Ploi was not only a suitable alternative, but hands down the better offering. Here's what finally changed my mind, made me switch all my sites and end my Forge subscription.
When it first launched, Laravel Forge was priced at $10 a month for unlimited servers, sites and services. This was an amazing and probably somewhat underpriced offering. It was incredible to be able to launch a Laravel site with a few clicks and forget about server management entirely. No more digging around in Nginx config files and hours spent installing the latest version of this or that version of PHP. Over time, more features were added for team functionality. I didn't upgrade because I didn't need access to these features. Later, the basic subscription price was increased slightly for new users, but the fee for users on existing plans remained the same.
When it first launched, Laravel Forge was the easiest and cheapest way to deploy a Laravel application onto a custom server. Recently, after repeatedly being presented with upgrade banners for new features, I decided to investigate the alternatives before committing to a higher fee. Happily, I stumbled upon Ploi.
At first I was skeptical that anyone could compete with the Laravel Core team who manage the established and stable product that is Laravel Forge, but over a few short hours I was increasingly convinced that Ploi was not only a suitable alternative, but hands down the better offering. Here's what finally changed my mind, made me switch all my sites and end my Forge subscription.
When it first launched, Laravel Forge was priced at $10 a month for unlimited servers, sites and services. This was an amazing and probably somewhat underpriced offering. It was incredible to be able to launch a Laravel site with a few clicks and forget about server management entirely. No more digging around in Nginx config files and hours spent installing the latest version of this or that version of PHP. Over time, more features were added for team functionality. I didn't upgrade because I didn't need access to these features. Later, the basic subscription price was increased slightly for new users, but the fee for users on existing plans remained the same.
When it first launched, Laravel Forge was the easiest and cheapest way to deploy a Laravel application onto a custom server. Recently, after repeatedly being presented with upgrade banners for new features, I decided to investigate the alternatives before committing to a higher fee. Happily, I stumbled upon Ploi.
At first I was skeptical that anyone could compete with the Laravel Core team who manage the established and stable product that is Laravel Forge, but over a few short hours I was increasingly convinced that Ploi was not only a suitable alternative, but hands down the better offering. Here's what finally changed my mind, made me switch all my sites and end my Forge subscription.
When it first launched, Laravel Forge was priced at $10 a month for unlimited servers, sites and services. This was an amazing and probably somewhat underpriced offering. It was incredible to be able to launch a Laravel site with a few clicks and forget about server management entirely. No more digging around in Nginx config files and hours spent installing the latest version of this or that version of PHP. Over time, more features were added for team functionality. I didn't upgrade because I didn't need access to these features. Later, the basic subscription price was increased slightly for new users, but the fee for users on existing plans remained the same.
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Every time I make a new site, I spend a significant amount of time adding meta and link tags to the layout. I do this to improve SEO but also to control the way the site is rendered in different browsers, share sheets and operating systems. I often find myself looking up details which I have researched in the past. This article will list all the tags I use on this and other sites. I hope it will save you (and future me) a lot of time.
#The Basics
Meta tags represent metadata that cannot be represented by other HTML meta-related elements such as
Link tags define relationships between the current document and external resources.
Every time I make a new site, I spend a significant amount of time adding meta and link tags to the layout. I do this to improve SEO but also to control the way the site is rendered in different browsers, share sheets and operating systems. I often find myself looking up details which I have researched in the past. This article will list all the tags I use on this and other sites. I hope it will save you (and future me) a lot of time.
#The Basics
Meta tags represent metadata that cannot be represented by other HTML meta-related elements such as
Link tags define relationships between the current document and external resources.
Every time I make a new site, I spend a significant amount of time adding meta and link tags to the layout. I do this to improve SEO but also to control the way the site is rendered in different browsers, share sheets and operating systems. I often find myself looking up details which I have researched in the past. This article will list all the tags I use on this and other sites. I hope it will save you (and future me) a lot of time.
#The Basics
Meta tags represent metadata that cannot be represented by other HTML meta-related elements such as
Link tags define relationships between the current document and external resources.
#The Basics
<title>, <script>, or <link>.Every time I make a new site, I spend a significant amount of time adding meta and link tags to the layout. I do this to improve SEO but also to control the way the site is rendered in different browsers, share sheets and operating systems. I often find myself looking up details which I have researched in the past. This article will list all the tags I use on this and other sites. I hope it will save you (and future me) a lot of time.
#The Basics
<title>, <script>, or <link>.Every time I make a new site, I spend a significant amount of time adding meta and link tags to the layout. I do this to improve SEO but also to control the way the site is rendered in different browsers, share sheets and operating systems. I often find myself looking up details which I have researched in the past. This article will list all the tags I use on this and other sites. I hope it will save you (and future me) a lot of time.
#The Basics
<title>, <script>, or <link>.Thank you for reading this article.
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Update: This instructions in this article should no longer be necessary as you can once again install imagick via pecl:
If you are still having issues, I would recommend this excellent article by Andrea Olivato.
Update: This instructions in this article should no longer be necessary as you can once again install imagick via pecl:
If you are still having issues, I would recommend this excellent article by Andrea Olivato.
Update: This instructions in this article should no longer be necessary as you can once again install imagick via pecl:
If you are still having issues, I would recommend this excellent article by Andrea Olivato.
pecl install imagick
If you are still having issues, I would recommend this excellent article by Andrea Olivato.
Update: This instructions in this article should no longer be necessary as you can once again install imagick via pecl:
pecl install imagick
If you are still having issues, I would recommend this excellent article by Andrea Olivato.
Update: This instructions in this article should no longer be necessary as you can once again install imagick via pecl:
pecl install imagick
If you are still having issues, I would recommend this excellent article by Andrea Olivato.