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Laravel Maintenance Mode That Actually Works: down --render, Secret Bypass and the Octane Trap
php artisan down boots the framework to tell you the framework is broken. Here are the four flags nobody sets, the multi-server failure everyone hits once, and what Octane quietly does to all of it.
Laravel Secrets in Production: The Complete Guide to env:encrypt, Secrets Manager and Rotation
Almost every Laravel deployment guide stops at "put it in .env and don't commit it". That is the absence of a secrets strategy. Here are the three patterns that actually work, and how to rotate a credential without taking the site down.
Blue-Green Deployments for Laravel with an Nginx Upstream Switch
Symlink deploys share one PHP-FPM pool and one OPcache, so rollback is never instant. Here's how to run two complete Laravel environments and flip traffic with a single Nginx reload.
Deploy Laravel to a VPS with Kamal 2: A Complete Guide
Kubernetes is overkill and click-ops doesn't scale. Kamal 2 deploys a containerised Laravel app to a plain VPS over SSH, with zero-downtime cutover and automatic SSL from a single config file.
Laravel Vapor vs Laravel Forge in 2026: Which Deployment Platform Should You Choose?
Both are first-party Laravel deployment tools. They solve completely different problems. Here's the decision framework I use.
Zero-Downtime Laravel Deployments with GitHub Actions and Forge
Stop manually triggering Forge deploys. Here's how to wire GitHub Actions to Forge's deploy webhook so every push to main ships automatically: without downtime.