Cloud 66 vs Deployer

Cloud 66 deploys and manages applications on cloud infrastructure customers provide, including major providers, hybrid environments, and their own servers. It supports Rails or Sinatra apps, Docker containers on Kubernetes, and static sites built with Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby. Deployment options include zero-downtime, blue/green, and canary deployments, plus previews for branches, tags, and pull requests. Hosted Docker build servers and autoscaling based on CPU, memory, queue backlog, and Nginx response time are available. Managed databases can include off-site backups, replication, and monitoring; the platform also provides server monitoring, alerts, logs, and metrics. Listed cloud providers include AWS, DigitalOcean, Google Compute Engine, Hetzner Cloud, Latitude.sh, Linode, OVHcloud, Microsoft Azure, and Vultr. Cloud 66 says it does not store customer code or data on its servers. Customers pay their cloud provider directly for server costs. The Free plan is free for up to one server, one static site, and five deployments per 24 hours. Developer is $23 a month and supports up to two servers and two static sites.

Deployer is a PHP deployment tool for sending applications to servers. It switches releases through atomic symlinks, so a deployment does not expose an incomplete state, and a failed release can be reverted with one command. The command line can list releases and return to the latest good release. Tasks run concurrently across selected hosts by default, with an option to limit concurrency. Projects describe hosts and tasks in deploy.php or deploy.yaml files and may add custom build tasks. Recipes cover Laravel, Symfony, WordPress, Drupal, Magento, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Yii, Contao, Shopware, TYPO3, and Sulu. Deployer connects over SSH, can open an interactive SSH session, and includes a recipe for provisioning Ubuntu with firewall, PHP, database, and HTTPS configuration. Installation is available through Composer, Phive, a PHAR bundle, or Docker. CI/CD guidance covers GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, and Bitbucket Pipelines. It is free and open source, with Linux, macOS, API, and self-hosted options.