Hosting
Vortex provides integrations with several hosting providers:
More hosting provider integrations are planned - see the roadmap.
This section covers where your site runs: what each provider integration does, how the environment is detected, and the routine operations (fetching databases, copying files, purging caches) available on each platform.
How code gets to a provider - deployment types, triggers, and skip rules - is covered in the Deployment section.
Hosting providers vs environments
Hosting providers are the platforms where your environments actually run. They can be cloud-based or on-premises solutions that provide the infrastructure to run the webserver, database, and other services required for your site.
Environments are the contained bundles of those infrastructure services that run your website. An environment represents a specific logical stage of your website deployment and releasing lifecycle: from local development to production. Multiple environments can exist on the same hosting provider.
Hosting providers typically provide DEV, STAGE, and PROD environments. Some also support short-lived ephemeral environments - called "preview", "on-demand", or "feature" environments - that help to test new features or changes in isolation before merging them into the main codebase.
Vortex detects the environment type at runtime and lets you configure your website behavior based on it.