What to Expect in the Next Generation of Laravel Forge

Server management shouldn't be a nightmare. Forge customers have enjoyed total control and simplicity when managing their servers since 2014. But Forge can be faster. Forge can be simpler. Forge can be better.

We’re relaunching Forge and introducing Laravel VPS on October 1, 2025.

So far, we’ve given 300 customers early access to the next generation of Forge to help us smooth out the final rough edges before launch. Here’s what they’ve told us:

The Laravel VPS feature makes it so easy to deploy something, and the Zero Downtime is AMAZING!" - Wendell Adriel

Really impressed so far! CMD + K search is a game-changer. This saves so many countless clicks navigating between different servers and projects." - Daniel

Convinced @jbrooksuk to let me poke around in the new @laravelphp Forge! Super impressed! Spinning up a new VPS is literally instant." - Peter Suhm

Deployments Get Easier and Smarter

The biggest pain point developers face isn't writing code but getting that code live without breaking things. Zero-downtime deployments now ship out of the box, meaning you can push updates during peak traffic without a second thought. We’re trying to avoid something that haunts every developer: having to schedule deployments around user activity and crossing their fingers that nothing goes wrong.

But our improvements in deployments go deeper than just avoiding downtime. Stacked and queued deployments solve a problem that's plagued teams for years: deployment confusion. You'll see exactly which commits made it to production and in what order. If a deployment fails halfway through a queue, subsequent deployments won't mistakenly register commits that never actually went live. This eliminates deployment drift and gives you complete visibility into your release pipeline.

For developers who need to share work quickly, hosted on-forge.com domains remove the friction of DNS setup. You can deploy your application, get an instantly shareable URL, and leave behind the "it works on my machine" conversations or complex staging environment setup just to show a client a feature.

Infrastructure That Adapts to Your Stack

Laravel VPS cuts server provisioning from minutes to seconds. One click gets you a fully configured server optimized for modern applications.

But Laravel VPS offers more than just speed. It's one of the most affordable cloud provider options in Forge, making it easier to experiment with new projects or scale existing ones. You'll also get simplified billing through a single invoice instead of managing separate charges from multiple providers.

Also available in Laravel VPS is an integrated terminal with SSH collaboration, allowing you to troubleshoot production issues with your team in real-time. Multiple developers can work in the same terminal session, making pair debugging and collaborative problem-solving natural.

Framework support will also expand. Nuxt and Next.js applications get first-class treatment with streamlined installation and deployment for both server-rendered and static-site modes. Forge adapts to your stack, whether you're building a traditional PHP application or a modern JavaScript frontend.

Monitoring to Ship with Confidence

Healthchecks ping your application from three global regions after every deployment. You'll know immediately if your app is reachable from London, New York, and Singapore. This catches connectivity issues and routing problems before your users do.

Heartbeats monitor your scheduled jobs by expecting a ping when they complete. If a critical backup job or data processing task fails silently, you'll know right away instead of discovering it days later. This turns background job monitoring from a reactive problem into a proactive safeguard.

Real-time metrics charts show CPU, memory, and bandwidth usage as it happens. Instead of scrambling to diagnose performance issues after users start complaining, you can spot resource constraints early and scale accordingly.

Developer Experience as Polished as Your Apps

A command palette brings modern interface patterns to server management. Search for any action, navigate between servers, or deploy applications without reaching for the mouse. This reduces the cognitive load of managing multiple servers and sites by making common actions instantly accessible.

Named scheduled jobs solve a surprisingly frustrating problem: keeping track of what your cron jobs actually do. Instead of parsing cryptic commands to understand their purpose, you can give them meaningful names that make sense to your entire team.

Team Management That Scales

Role-based access control gives you granular control over who can do what. Developers can deploy applications without being able to delete servers. Junior team members can view logs and metrics without access to sensitive environment variables. Business plans get custom roles for even more precise control.

Organizations become billable entities, which transforms how agencies and consultancies use Forge. You can create separate Forge organizations for different clients, each with its own billing, team access, and server management. This eliminates the complexity of managing multiple projects under a single account.

A Foundation for What's Next

The platform runs on a revamped UI built with TypeScript, Inertia.js, and Vue. The new streamlined UI (which now includes a dark mode) makes every interaction faster and more intuitive.

The new API follows JSON:API specifications and includes comprehensive documentation. Whether you're building custom integrations or automating deployment workflows, you'll have the tools and documentation to do it reliably.

SSL and domain management become truly automated. Certificate renewals happen without intervention, and domain setup simplifies to a few clicks. Our goal is to make these operational tasks fade into the background, freeing up more of your time.

Forge Is Solving Real Problems

With each Forge improvement, we tried to address a specific friction point that slows down development teams. Zero-downtime deployments eliminate the anxiety around releases. Laravel VPS removes setup and billing complexity. Healthchecks and heartbeats catch problems before they become incidents.

The next generation of Forge transforms server management into an invisible enabler that removes the DevOps hurdles. Your focus stays on building applications while the platform handles the complexity of keeping them running reliably.

Server management may never be the most exciting part of development, but it doesn't have to be the most frustrating either. The next generation of Forge aims to make it something you rarely have to think about at all.

Join the waitlist to stay up to date and be among the first to access these improvements when they launch.