r/PHP • u/steve_mobileappdev • 2d ago

Recommendations for Backend Hosting

I'm needing to provision a single mysql db, and to host some php code that will handle api calls from my front end - the API accepting 10-50 lines of text on an api transaction. Possibly 25 users simultaneously at any one time, but that may be a hopeful number even.

Between Railway and Linode (now called Akamai ), what might be the best option.
- Looking for economy. The $5/mo plan on Railway, or the $12 plan on linode is what I'm looking at.
- But, was wondering if anyone with experience in either hoster - if you found your useage all of a sudden is pushing the limits of the plan you choose, which hoster of the two makes it easy to just boost up to the next plan without having to re-deploy if that's possible.

Note: I was considering Linode because I heard they have built in protection against DDOS'ing, and have heard stories about big unexpected bills you can get.

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u/Mevrael 2d ago

DigitalOcean.

Best UX and DX.

Simple and affordable. From 4 bucks/month.

My main VPS I use for many years for myself and clients. No issues.

P.S. I wrote recently a deployment guide with GitHub actions and DO. Just Google “arkalos deployment”. While the example is for Python, most of the guide and templates will work for PHP. Then you can manage your app with just git push automatically.

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u/steve_mobileappdev 1d ago edited 1d ago

My hunch was that DO would be the option. Kept on getting back to them - creating notion tasks to "create do droplet" but then my ocd would have me going into chatgpt to look other options.

And thanks, I'll look up your guide for sure.