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Hosting PHP Applications

Hosting your PHP applications on the French sovereign cloud — Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, and all major PHP frameworks, with no server management. A single git push is all it takes.
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    01 Deploy in minutes

    Clever Cloud automatically detects your PHP version, installs Composer dependencies, and starts your application. No Dockerfile, no server configuration, no httpd.conf to touch.

    Natively compatible with:
    • Laravel — automatic deployment, queue and scheduler support
    • Symfony — environment detection, secure environment variables
    • CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Yii, Slim, Lumen, Laminas, Phalcon — supported without specific configuration
    • WordPress and API Platform — available via FrankenPHP for increased performance
    Versions configurable via environment variable.
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    02 FrankenPHP — modern PHP, multiplied performance

    Clever Cloud is one of the few hosts to offer FrankenPHP in managed production. FrankenPHP rewrites the PHP server in Go, enabling synchronous and asynchronous applications within the same process.

    The concrete result: response times are cut by two to three on high-traffic Laravel and Symfony applications, with no code changes required.
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    03 Auto Scaling

    Whether you run a PHP SaaS with steady traffic or an e-commerce site subject to seasonal peaks, Clever Cloud scales resources to load in real time. Auto-scaling is configurable from the console: set a minimum and maximum instance range, and the platform handles the rest.

    You consume what you need, when you need it. No permanent over-allocation.

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    04 Sovereign PHP hosting, data in France

    Clever Cloud hosts on its own servers in France and in partner datacenters worldwide, always outside the reach of extraterritorial laws. Your PHP data is never subject to the American Cloud Act or FISA.

    • ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and HDS (Health Data Host) certified
    • GDPR compliant — no opaque subcontracting
    • UGAP listed for public procurement
    • SecNumCloud zone available for the most sensitive workloads (via Cloud Temple)

    For healthcare organizations, business software publishers, and public sector entities hosting PHP applications that process sensitive data, Clever Cloud is the only French PaaS to combine HDS certification with full deployment-to-run cycle automation.
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    05 Allocate time for the product

    Updating PHP versions, tweaking the httpd.conf file or mitigating DDoS attacks takes time. You don’t have time. Code, sleep, or go out and play. Life is short.

Clever Cloud supports the majority of frameworks:

  • Laravel
  • Symfony
  • CodeIgniter
  • CakePHP
  • Yii
  • Slim
  • Lumen
  • Laminas
  • Phalcon
  • FuelPHP
Our pricing depends on the size and the number of instances your application needs. Compare it with your current pricing or on our calculator in the pricing page.

Frequently asked questions – Hosting PHP apps

How do I deploy a Laravel application on Clever Cloud?

Link your Git repository to Clever Cloud, configure your deployment branch, and run git push. The platform automatically detects Laravel, installs dependencies via Composer, runs migrations if you have configured a post-deployment hook, and starts the application with Apache or FrankenPHP depending on your configuration. Expect less than 5 minutes for a first deployment.

Does Clever Cloud support Symfony?

Yes. Symfony is natively supported. Clever Cloud detects the framework, configures the environment (APP_ENV, APP_SECRET, etc.) and starts the application. Staging, pre-production, and production environments can be isolated with distinct environment variables.

Which PHP versions are available?

Clever Cloud supports PHP 8.0 through 8.5. The version is configurable via the CC_PHP_VERSION environment variable. End-of-life versions (PHP 7.x and 5.6) are also available for legacy applications that cannot yet migrate. FrankenPHP is available as an alternative runtime for applications looking to benefit from a modernized server architecture.

Is my PHP data hosted in France?

Migrating a standard PHP application typically takes between a few hours and a day. No rewrite is required: it is enough to configure environment variables and connect the Git repository. Clever Cloud offers migration assistance for complex projects.

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