Why Moving CMS Max to Laravel Cloud Was One of the Best Decisions We’ve Made

I wanted to write something about our experience moving CMS Max to Laravel Cloud because it has honestly made a massive difference for our company.

For years, one of the biggest headaches I had with CMS Max was the infrastructure behind it. As we grew, everything got more complicated. More servers, more monitoring, more things that could go wrong, and more engineering time spent managing everything.

We had servers crash over the years, and when they did, it was complete chaos.

Customers would start calling. Support tickets would start coming in. Employees would be asking what was going on. Our developers would have to immediately stop what they were doing and start trying to figure out what happened.

And for me, it was incredibly stressful.

There were countless nights where I couldn't sleep because I was worried about something happening to our servers. Sometimes I would wake up in the middle of the night and check everything just to make sure we were still online.

When your company depends on a platform being available 24/7, that stress is always in the back of your head.

Even when nothing was wrong, I was worrying about what could go wrong.

The cost was also getting out of control.

We weren't just paying for servers. We were paying for developers and engineers to manage those servers, troubleshoot problems, handle deployments, keep an eye on performance, deal with scaling, databases, queues, backups, security, and everything else that comes along with running your own infrastructure.

It added up to a lot of money.

Since moving CMS Max to Laravel Cloud, we have literally saved thousands and thousands of dollars every single month.

That's not an exaggeration.

But as important as the savings are, the biggest benefit to me personally has probably been the stress it removed.

I don't have to think about our servers the way I used to.

Our developers don't have to spend nearly as much time dealing with infrastructure. They can actually spend their time working on CMS Max, building new features, improving the platform, and doing things that help our customers.

That's where I want their time going.

Another thing that has really stood out to me is Laravel's support.

Their support has honestly been second to none.

Whenever we have needed help, we've gotten real help from people who understand the platform and understand what we're trying to accomplish. That means a lot when you're trusting another company with something that is this important to your business.

I know saying that Laravel Cloud helped save my company sounds dramatic, but that's really how I feel about it.

I don't mean CMS Max was going to shut down tomorrow.

I mean we were spending a ridiculous amount of money and time managing infrastructure, and I was carrying around a ridiculous amount of stress because of it.

As CMS Max continued to grow, that problem was only going to get bigger.

Laravel Cloud completely changed that for us.

We're spending less money. Our developers can focus on development. I don't have the same constant worry about servers crashing. And I don't have the same sleepless nights wondering what I'm going to wake up to.

That's hard to put a price on.

I've been building websites and running technology companies for a long time, and infrastructure has always been one of those necessary things you just accept comes with the territory.

Laravel Cloud has made me realize how much of that headache we didn't actually need to have.

Now we can focus on building CMS Max instead of spending so much time just keeping CMS Max running.

So I really wanted to say thank you to Taylor Otwell and the entire Laravel team.

What you've built has had a very real impact on our company.

It has saved us a significant amount of money, saved our team an incredible amount of time, and personally saved me a lot of stress.

For anyone running a serious Laravel application and spending a lot of money or engineering time managing infrastructure, I would definitely take a look at Laravel Cloud.

For CMS Max, moving to it was one of the best decisions we've made.