On the SitePoint PHP blog there's a new post that compares three deployment tools to help you manage your VPS servers: RunCloud vs Forge vs ServerPilot.

When your website or web application has outgrown your shared hosting account, it is time to move it to the cloud, or into a virtual private server (VPS). [...] However, I can recall when I wanted to move my website to Amazon Web Services a few years ago, and it took me days to deploy the server and get it ready with PHP, MySQL and Apache.

Fortunately, that is not the case today as we have the help of some cool tools and third party services. I took a look at three similar services – RunCloud, ServerPilot and Laravel Forge – and compared them to see which performs best.

The post then walks through each service showing how to set up an account and talking about the pros and cons. Screenshots are included showing the UI and the steps you'll need to set up servers and providers. The post ends with a look at performance tests on the resulting VPSes including information like time of request completion, response time and successful/failed transactions. These results show a clear leader as far as performance results - Laravel Forge - but there are some reminders that performance is only part of what you should consider when selecting a service.