Sounds like a unified directory of domain with lower security that attackers can target to me. not sure the domain for self hosting is such a great idea.
The short version: Someone exploited an outdated Livewire version on a dormant side project of mine. They stole my .env file, used the Mailcoach API keys to send 50,000 spam emails, and I spent a panicked night tearing through every project I own trying to find the source.
I run it for my apps with traefik in front and is awesome. you can easily add services, DBs, backups and more and using the bin mounts you can migrate in painless way.
If you are building high-performance Laravel applications, you are likely already exploring the limits of what's possible with FrankenPHP and Laravel Octane. In my previous work designing a production-ready Laravel architecture with Traefik and FrankenPHP, I promoted this stack for its simplicity and raw power.
However, bleeding-edge tech often comes with bleeding-edge problems. Recently, I lost three hours debugging an issue that should have been obvious: The FrankenPHP binary installed by Laravel Octane is version-locked.
In my case, it was locked to PHP 8.4, despite my system running the latest stable PHP 8.5. If you are trying to upgrade your stack or build a high-performance directory like I did for LaraPlugins.io, you need your environment to match your expectations.
Here is how to force FrankenPHP to use PHP 8.5 and stop chasing ghost bugs.
As someone who built a standard shortener (coz.jp), this is hilarious. I spent so much time trying to make links look trustworthy; doing the exact opposite is a surprisingly fun concept.
I'm excited to launch Laraplugins.io, a Laravel-built directory that helps you discover healthy, maintained plugins faster.
The platform features automated health scores for each plugin, so you can quickly assess quality and make confident decisions without spending hours researching.
Check it out the launching page here
I’ve built COZ.JP, and I’m now looking to promote it. However, I’ll admit, I’m not great at marketing or promoting. Could you please share some advice on how to effectively market my product? Any tips, personal experiences, or even harsh realities I should prepare for would be incredibly helpful! Thank you in advance for your help.
Between Japanese lessons and a lot of coffee, I'm happy to launch API beta support for Coz.jp! To make automation easy, I've also built an n8n node and a Laravel plugin.
In this moments I think devs should invest in vendor independence if they can. While I'm not to that stage yet (cloudlfare dependence) using open technologies like docker (or Kubernetes), Traefik instead of managed services can help in this disaster situations by switching to a different provider in a faster way than having to rebuild from zero.
as a disclosure I'm not still to that point on my infrastructure But I'm trying to slowly define one for my self
Really enjoyed putting this system together — Laravel with FrankenPHP and Traefik makes a huge difference in real-world performance and maintainability. The full architecture and Docker setup are detailed here if you’d like to dive deeper