Connect your repo and your servers, click deploy. symflip builds each release next to the live one on every server, runs your migrations once, and only switches once every server is ready. If the new release fails its health check, symflip can put the previous one back on its own.
Free for one project on one server. Multi-server deploys need Team (€29/mo).
Every deploy lands in its own releases/ directory. composer install, npm run build and config:cache all run there while the live release keeps serving. Going live is one symlink flip, so there's no moment when the app runs half-old, half-new code.
On a fleet, php artisan migrate --force runs on one server you choose, before any server goes live. A failed migration stops the deploy with nothing switched.
.env and storage/ shared between releases.Your secrets are sealed at rest and written to shared/.env on every server. storage/ is shared too, so logs, sessions and storage/app/public uploads survive each deploy.
Point symflip at Laravel's /up route. If the new release doesn't answer after your retries, symflip can put the previous one back on its own.
Reload PHP-FPM right after the switch. Restart queue workers or Horizon in a post-deploy hook, once the new code is live.
Add a webhook in GitHub or GitLab and every push to your branch deploys. Each request is verified (GitHub's signature or GitLab's secret token), and you can still deploy by hand. Solo and up.
Start with one server on the free plan. When your app grows to two web servers behind a load balancer, move to Team and add the second one to the same project. Every server builds first; if one fails, none go live. Then each server switches with one atomic symlink rename, in parallel. If a server fails to switch, or the release fails its health check with auto-rollback on, the servers that switched roll back so the fleet ends on one release. If a rollback itself fails, symflip says so loudly.
Forge does zero-downtime deploys on one server and points multi-server projects to Envoyer [1]. symflip covers both cases, and you keep Forge for the servers themselves. Forge zero-downtime deploys on multiple servers covers how the two fit.
Already on Envoyer? Read the honest comparison with Envoyer and the step-by-step migration guide.
Build, migrate and hook fields run one command per line, under set -e, inside the new release:
# Build
composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader --no-interaction
npm ci && npm run build
# Migrate (runs once, on the primary server)
php artisan migrate --force
# Pre-activate hook (Team and up)
php artisan config:cache
php artisan route:cache
php artisan view:cache
# Reload
sudo -n systemctl reload php8.3-fpm
# Post-deploy hook (Team and up)
php artisan queue:restart
# Health check
curl -fsS http://127.0.0.1/up -H 'Host: example.com'sudo -S service php8.3-fpm reload.Hetzner, DigitalOcean, AWS, a box under your desk: if it runs Linux and you can SSH into it, symflip can deploy to it. Nothing extra runs on the server.
Previous releases stay on disk, so rollback is a symlink flip with no rebuild: one click on a single-server project, or automatic on a failed health check. It reverts your code, not your database. Here's how to write migrations so that doesn't matter.
Free for one project on one server. Solo (€12/mo) adds push-to-deploy and alerts, still one server per project. Team (€29/mo) adds multi-server deploys, custom hooks, scheduled deploys and 5 seats. See all plans.
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