An elegant platform for modern PHP apps

- Developer deploys code
- Apps run in smart containers (dynos)
- Developer manages app in dashboard
- Data in web scale backing service via add-ons (database)
- User makes a request, which is served by the app
Heroku gives you simple, easy ways to…
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Add-ons
Add-ons are powerful managed services you can use to extend your app. Adding a log management service is as simple as
Sign up for freeheroku addons:create papertrail
from the Heroku CLI. Every app needs a database - so let’s add Heroku Postgres using the Heroku Dashboard too. -
Scale
It’s easy to horizontally scale your PHP app’s web and worker process types independently. First we’ll scale our web process type to use two dynos — this is as simple as
Sign up for freeheroku ps:scale web=2:Standard-1x
. It’s just as easy to use the dashboard to scale by dragging a slider
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