Neon

Neon is a serverless open-source Postgres database. It separates storage and compute to offer a modern serverless Postgres experience. It features branching, autoscaling, and bottomless storage.

# PHP and Postgres

While fortrabbit is currently offers a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), you can absolutely use Postgres if your application supports it.

# Extensions

You need to ensure the pgsql or pdo_pgsql extensions are enabled. On fortrabbit, these are available. You might need to enable them in your composer.json or just use them if they are standard. (Actually, pdo_pgsql is usually enabled by default on fortrabbit).

# Laravel example

Laravel supports Postgres out of the box. Just change your default connection:

DB_CONNECTION=pgsql
DB_HOST=ep-random-name-123456.eu-central-1.aws.neon.tech
DB_PORT=5432
DB_DATABASE=neondb
DB_USERNAME=user
DB_PASSWORD=password
bash

# Region

Neon runs on AWS. Choose a region that is close to your fortrabbit app.