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Migrating Laravel News from Laravel Forge to Cloud

Published on January 21st, 2026 by Eric L. Barnes

Today we migrated Laravel News from a traditional Forge managed setup over to Laravel Cloud, live on YouTube, and walked through the decisions, the deployment steps, and the “gotchas” you should expect when moving a real production Laravel app.

If you are currently running Laravel on Forge (or any VPS-based setup) and you have been curious what a Cloud migration actually looks like in practice, this stream is a useful end to end example using a production workload.

This session focuses on moving a live application and sharing lessons learned along the way. In particular, we covered:

How we approached migrating a production Laravel app from Forge to Cloud
The deployment and cutover mindset (reduce risk, verify in steps, then flip traffic)
Practical checks to run before and after the move
Lessons learned you can apply to your own Laravel Cloud migration

Give it a watch and try out Laravel Cloud if you haven't.

Eric L. Barnes

Eric is the creator of Laravel News and has been covering Laravel since 2012.

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