This Lumen app is currently hosted on a shared web hosting service by Hetzner. My current web space has 10 GB of HDD, 192 MB RAM, an execution limit of up to 120 seconds, a PostgreSQL 9 database, and allows no cron jobs.

I wanted to find out whether a Lumen app runs smoothly on a shared web hosting service, and how the app can easily be deployed via FTP (because that's the only option I have) and GitHub.

My Linux VPS (currently hosting a Rails, Grails and Phoenix app) executes the script public/stats.sh every minute via a cron job. This script sends the following data to the shared web hosting service (POST /logs):

• cpu_us
• cpu_sy
• current_ram
• total_ram
• hdd The Lumen app writes the data into the table logs.

At the same time, a Google Apps Script runs every 5 minutes and calls POST /curl_calls. This action pings all the sites in public/sites.php, via curl, and writes the data into the table curl.

A dashboard displays all the relevant data in the logs and curl tables.

• Create file public/config.php with your DB config:

  <?php
  
  return (object) array(
    'UPLOAD_SECRET' => '...',
    'DB_NAME' => '...',
    'DB_USER' => '...',
    'DB_PASSWORD' => '...',
    'DB_HOST' => '...'
  );

• Copy .env.example to .env and update values.
• Update public/stats.sh by setting the correct TOKEN (it's the same as the UPLOAD_SECRET).
  • Note: This is not yet finalized!

To install the defined dependencies for your project, run the install command.

php composer.phar install

• Execute the following DDL commands:

  CREATE TABLE public.alias (
    id serial NOT NULL,
    created_at timestamp NULL DEFAULT now(),
    url varchar NOT NULL,
    alias varchar NOT NULL,
    CONSTRAINT alias_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id)
  );
  
  CREATE TABLE public.logs (
    id serial NOT NULL,
    created_at timestamp NULL DEFAULT now(),
    cpu_us float4 NOT NULL,
    current_ram int4 NOT NULL,
    total_ram int4 NOT NULL,
    hdd float4 NOT NULL,
    cpu_sy float4 NULL,
    CONSTRAINT logs_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id)
  );
  
  CREATE TABLE public.curl (
    id serial NOT NULL,
    created_at timestamp NULL DEFAULT now(),
    url_effective varchar NULL,
    http_code int4 NULL,
    time_total float4 NULL,
    CONSTRAINT curl_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id)
  );

• Add your sites into the alias table.

• Create a .composer directory (it's defined as a volume in docker-compose.yml)
• Start the server:

  docker-compose up
  

In case you want to install lumen-installer:

docker-compose run --rm web bash
# In Container:
composer global require "laravel/lumen-installer"

• Make sure you have installed all dependencies via composer.
• Make sure your .env file contains the correct configuration (APP_DEBUG, database connection, etc.).
• Upload all your files via FTP (or whatever you like).
  • Tip: FTP is quite slow for all the files in vendor. ZIP all your files, upload the archive via FTP, connect to your server via SSH and extract the archive.
  • If you have no SSH access, you can try writing a small PHP helper script that uses exec(...) to unzip the archive.

This repo has a GitHub Actions workflow for continuous deployment. It uses FTP-Deploy-Action, which uses git-ftp behind the scenes. For each new commit, the changed files are calculated and then uploaded via FTP.

The app is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.