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Burned 10 hours on a site rebuild because I didn't check the framework version first
I spent a whole weekend rebuilding a client's portfolio site in Laravel 9, only to find out their shared host only supports PHP 7.4. The host's fine print on their docs page gave it away when I went to deploy. Has anyone else run into a hosting limitation that killed a whole build approach?
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murphy.barbara28d ago
Oh honey, that is BRUTAL. I've been there with a WordPress site that needed a specific PHP extension, but the host just silently refused to load it. Wasted a full Saturday trying to figure out why the contact form kept erroring out. The fine print buried in the docs is the WORST trap because you think you checked everything. Shared hosts can be such a pain with those version limitations, it's like they want you to upgrade to a more expensive plan. Nothing stings more than realizing you could have just built it in an earlier version of Laravel and saved yourself the headache.
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torres.sage28d ago
Ditto on the silent fail thing. Hosts really need to just error out loud instead of acting like everything's fine.
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