Running Laravel Octane on Deploynix: FrankenPHP, RoadRunner & Swoole

Laravel Octane fundamentally changes how your PHP application handles requests. Instead of booting the framework from scratch on every single request — loading configuration, registering service providers, resolving bindings — Octane boots the application once and keeps it in memory, serving subsequent requests from that warm state. The result is dramatically faster response times and significantly higher throughput. Deploynix supports all three Octane drivers: FrankenPHP, RoadRunner, and Swoole. Each has its own strengths, trade-offs, and ideal use cases. In this guide, we will cover how to enable Octane on Deploynix, how to choose the right driver for your application, performance characteristics you can expect, and the gotchas you need to watch out for when moving from traditional PHP-FPM to an Octane-powered setup. How Octane Changes the Game To understand why Octane matters, you need to understand how traditional PHP-FPM works. With PHP-FPM, every incoming request triggers a full