Setting Up a Production-Ready Laravel Stack: Nginx, PHP 8.4, MySQL, Valkey & Supervisor

A Laravel application running on your local machine with php artisan serve and a SQLite database is a fundamentally different beast from a Laravel application serving thousands of requests per minute in production. The gap between development and production is not just about code. It is about infrastructure: a properly tuned web server, an optimized PHP runtime, a robust database engine, a fast cache layer, and a process manager that keeps your queue workers alive. Building this stack manually is a rite of passage for many developers, but it is also a minefield of configuration mistakes, security oversights, and wasted hours. Deploynix provisions this entire stack automatically when you create an App Server, configured with production-grade defaults that reflect years of Laravel deployment experience. In this post, we will break down every component of the Deploynix production stack, explain how they fit together, and show you where and how to customize each piece. The Architecture at