Why These Companies Switched to Laravel Cloud and Saved Big

There are some massive Laval apps out there and a lot of them are now running [music] on Lava Cloud. But before I tell you how good Lava Cloud is, let's hear from some of our customers. First up, we have Pile, a B2B flooring e-commerce platform. And they recently migrated from Laravel Vapor to Laval Cloud. And I can tell you the numbers are pretty wild. So, what does Pile actually look like under the hood? 1.5 million HTTP requests per day, 800,000 Q jobs per day. So, they're extremely chop heavy because they sync live pricing and stock from multiple suppliers in real time. They have 13 different sites across staging and production and 300 GBTE of raw database data and that's just without backups. I think we can fairly say this is not a side project here. This is some serious production scale. The old setup was quite a mess. Level Waper handled the web request. Forge handled the workers and Aurora serverless for the database. Elastic cache S3 all stitched together with AWS infrastructure they had to manage themselves. They call it infrastructure as a hack. They had oversized database instances. They were afraid to scale down unpredictable EWS bills and they were fighting Laval instead of working with it. Their monthly infrastructure bill around $11,000. The turning point for them was at Lavacon US in Denmark. Francois solution architected Pal and his CTO spotted Taylor sitting at a corner at a dinner and basically ambushed him. They walked through all the problems got introduced to the cloud team and after a night of but can cloud do this and can cloud do that. It really clicked for them. Taylor basically told them the way you want to run this is with Laval and on Lava cloud. And yeah, since then six um apps have already been migrated over the last 12 weeks. The longest downtime for any single migration was just one hour without any data loss. So for a platform handling 1.5 million daily request, that's really remarkable. And there were real challenges here to overcome. They needed static outgoing IPs for customer wide listing. They had massive databases to move FTP integration and more. The cloud team worked directly with them to solve those one by one and the result 50% lower infrastructure cost. Yeah. So down from 11K to roughly 5.5K per month. They have now autoscaling that works just fine and Fran called it brain dead which is exactly what he wants. A simpler platform they actually understand. No more AWS bill cares. And yet the only thing they requested is that they didn't migrate earlier. Thank you Paul. It's a pleasure having you here as Lava Cloud. And next up we have Supererscript. They are building what they call the insurance layer of the internet, a multicarrier insurance platform. And they just move everything from Heroku to Laa Cloud. Superscript now runs six different services on Lava Cloud handling around 50,000 HTTP requests per day and 250,000 Q chops per day. They are really chop heavy. So a single request can trigger a whole chain of background task like sending emails, generating invoices, talking to Stripe, syncing with insurance carriers and so on. Plus around 20 scatter jobs running daily, weekly and monthly. On Heroku, every process cost money separately. Workers, schedulers, web diamonds, you name it, they all had their own price tag. And spinning up a new database cluster for every review environment, they were just burning money. Craig's target was clear. cut infrastructure cost by 50%. A few things clicked immediately for them with Lava Cloud. First, security. They needed multiffactor authentication and SSO and cloud matched everything that they already had on Heroku. For an insurance company, that's non-negotiable. Second, share the resources preview environments. So, instead of spinning up a full database per refu environment, cloud lets them share. That alone saves them a ton. And third, multi-processes on one box. On Heroko, every worker was a separate billable process. On Lava Cloud, they all just run together. Eric, one of the product engineers, put it best. On a good day, you're not spending any time in LA cloud. He said he has had to go into the LA cloud UI less often than he ever did with Heroku. And that's a good thing. And the automatic configurations for databases, caches, environment variables, schedule tasks, and so on. all just checkboxes. His take the whole Laval way of developing really translate into Lava cloud and ties everything together. After the first month, they already saved 30% of their cost and they're expecting more as they move over environments to dedicated compute. The 50% target is inside cloud more is just hosting. They're already using Lava boost across all the apps and planning to use the AI SDK for automating insurance data entry. Craig summed it up perfectly. Lava cloud provides the programmable seamless infrastructure that mirrors our own ambition, allowing us to slash our spend by 50% and shift our focus from managing servers to building the future of insurance. Thank you, Supererscript. It's great having you here on Lava Cloud. And now here's one that's a little different. Diagonal is a ventureback startup building personalized software for small businesses, client portal, scheduling solutions, and payment processing. And they have been on Lava Cloud since day one. They never had to migrate because they started with Lava Cloud from the beginning. So yeah, you don't have to migrate if you start cloud right away. Great thinking here. They actually founded a company the same month that cloud launched. So after debating between managing their own infrastructure or using cloud, the decision was easy for them. They have been happily hosting product environments on cloud since they won for their customers. Using cloud from the start has allowed their engineers to focus on other parts of the stack and namely shipping more features to customers. The last thing they wanted to deal with is scaling cues or managing server sizes. And they're not just using cloud for hosting. They're actually using AI tools internally with Nightw Watch and Cloud to automate bug fixes and updates and they're using ReW with Q workers to handle AI chats for their customers. They are still early stage and they have not launched publicly yet, but they are already planning future content about how to use Lava Cloud, Nightw Watch, and AI tooling together. Their code sums it up perfectly. As a new venturebacked startup, we explored all options for hosting and ultimately it was a no-brainer to use Lava Cloud and Nightw Watch. If you are a startup that wants to focus on shipping to customers and not managing servers, Larava Cloud is the way. That's what they said. Thank you, Diagonal, Superscript, and PAL for your trust. We keep working hard to provide you the best possible hosting solution for your amazing companies. If you haven't tried Lava Cloud yet, please do so with a free account. Please also check out our private cloud page where you get infrastructure review and can talk to our expert to handle your custom solution on Lava Cloud 2. Happy shipping.