Why your Laravel container never scales to zero
A serverless Laravel container sleeps only after 15 quiet minutes. Why crawlers and session cookies keep it awake, and how the edge cache lets it rest.
Blog Laravel, serverless, in Europe.
Tutorials and notes from building Brewless: how to run a Laravel app serverless, on European clouds, in accounts you own.
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Public Laravel files on cdn.yourdomain, not on a bucket URL
Brewless now puts every bucket for files behind bunny.net on cdn.<your domain>, and sets AWS_URL once it answers, so Storage::url() stops naming the bucket.
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Brewless is open
Anyone with a work address can now register for Brewless and deploy a Laravel app to their own Scaleway account, free for one application.
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A Scaleway project per Laravel app, or a shared one
Why Brewless gives every Laravel application its own Scaleway project, what that changes for keys, invoices and mail, and when to share one instead.
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Boost a Serverless SQL database before a ticket sale
A Scaleway Serverless SQL Database scales up too slowly for a sale that opens at 10:00. How a planned capacity boost warms it up first, and what it costs.
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CVE-2026-98432: who patches the kernel under your app?
A use-after-free in the Linux TCP handshake, scored 9.8, is fixed upstream but not yet in every distribution. Who patches it depends on how you host Laravel.
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Send Laravel mail with Lettermint, set up for you
Brewless makes the project, the sending token, the domain and the DNS records for a Laravel app that sends through Lettermint, in your own Lettermint team.
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Your own domain on Brewless, without moving your DNS
Keep your nameservers where they are: Brewless shows the record to make at your own DNS provider, looks it up by itself and issues the certificate.
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Move your S3 files from AWS to Brewless
Copy a Laravel app's uploads from an S3 bucket at AWS, or any S3 service, into its Scaleway bucket with brewless storage:import. Nothing is removed.
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How pg_dump broke a Laravel job on Serverless SQL
A nightly backup job failed with 'relation does not exist' on a table that was there. The cause: pg_dump and a connection pooler sharing session settings.
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From Vapor to Brewless without touching your code
The whole migration of a Laravel app away from Vapor: one package in, Vapor's out, one brewless.yml, and your database and files in one command each.
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How to host a Laravel app EU-sovereign
A practical guide to running Laravel on European clouds with European owners, in accounts you own, from the first deploy to the services around your app.
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Scaleway Transactional Email for Laravel, compared
What Scaleway Transactional Email does, how a Laravel app sends through it, and how its costs and workings differ from Lettermint and Amazon SES.
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Laravel hosting without lock-in: what happens when you leave
What lock-in means for Laravel hosting, why owning your cloud accounts matters, and what keeps running when you export, detach and leave Brewless.
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Redis for Laravel on a private network, over TLS
How a serverless Laravel app gets a Scaleway Managed Database for Redis on a Private Network, over TLS, and what to keep in it on serverless containers.
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GDPR roles and DPAs when you host Laravel with Brewless
Who is controller, processor and sub-processor when a Laravel app runs on Scaleway and bunny.net through Brewless, and which data processing agreements to sign.
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Rollbacks in Laravel: what you can and cannot undo
A rollback brings back your Laravel code and variables, not your database. What brewless rollback undoes, and how to keep migrations safe to roll back.
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How to estimate what a Laravel app costs on serverless
The cost model of a serverless Laravel app on Scaleway and bunny.net, what drives each line of the bill, and how to estimate it from your own usage.
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Deploying Laravel from CI with a pipeline token
Deploy a Laravel app from GitHub Actions or GitLab CI with a Brewless pipeline token in BREWLESS_API_TOKEN, after your tests pass.
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European alternatives for the services Laravel calls
European-owned options for mail, payments, error tracking, logs, analytics, search, uptime, SMS and fonts in a Laravel app, and what to check before you switch.
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An EU-sovereignty checklist for a Laravel SaaS
One page to hand to a client or DPO, with every part of a Laravel SaaS that holds or sees data, what to check for each and how to note the exceptions.
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A database per tenant for Laravel on serverless
How a multi-tenant Laravel app gets a Serverless SQL Database per tenant at Scaleway, by asking Brewless with a signed request instead of CREATE DATABASE.
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Laravel migrations as a release step
Brewless runs Laravel migrations before a release goes live, and a failing one keeps the old release serving. How to write migrations that are safe for that.
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Laravel secrets without a .env file in production
Keep Laravel's production secrets in Scaleway Secret Manager instead of a .env file on a server, with revisions, env:pull and env:push.
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Putting bunny.net in front of a Laravel app
How to run Laravel behind bunny.net, with the pull zone, Bunny DNS, TLS, Shield, what to cache and what not, and the real visitor IP.
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Serverless SQL or Managed PostgreSQL for Laravel
Scaleway has a PostgreSQL database that sleeps and one that is always on. What wakes the first, how a Laravel app connects to each, and how to choose.
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Laravel uploads on Scaleway Object Storage
How a serverless Laravel app keeps uploads on Scaleway Object Storage with the s3 disk, a private bucket, temporary URLs and a bucket for backups.
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Laravel cold starts on serverless, and how to measure them
What happens when a scaled-to-zero Laravel container gets its first request, what makes that start longer, and when web.min is worth paying for.
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Laravel's scheduler without a cron server
How Brewless runs Laravel's task scheduler on serverless containers. The schedule is read on deploy, and the worker is called only at the moments a task is due.
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Laravel queues without a long-running worker
How Brewless runs Laravel queues on serverless containers. With Scaleway Queues a job reaches the worker the moment it is queued, with its tries and backoff.
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Laravel on FrankenPHP: why classic mode, not Octane
Brewless runs Laravel on FrankenPHP in classic mode and refuses worker mode and Octane. State that outlives a request is a risk, and serverless gains nothing.
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The US CLOUD Act explained for Laravel developers
What the US CLOUD Act of 2018 says, why an EU region of an American cloud is not sovereign, and what it means for Laravel teams and their clients.
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Moving from Laravel Vapor to European infrastructure
How to move a Laravel app from Vapor to Scaleway and bunny.net, from vapor.yml to brewless.yml, with your variables, database, files and DNS.