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There's no clean \"upgrade path\" migration; adopting Laravel later means restructuring the app around its conventions.",{"question":706,"answer":707},"Should I use Auth0?","Auth0 is the only provider here since bare PHP has no framework-native auth system the way Laravel does, and it's the most direct way to add authenticated routes without hand-rolling session or token handling.",{"question":709,"answer":710},"What's the cheapest way to run this stack?","Shared hosting plans bundling PHP and MySQL start under $3\u002Fmo, the cheapest hosting path in this entire catalog. A VPS for more control (Hetzner, Hostinger, DigitalOcean) runs about $4-8\u002Fmo instead.",{"summary":712,"starting_cost_label":713,"has_free_tier":3,"line_items":714},"Plain PHP and MySQL are open-source and free, and this stack is about as cheap to host as a backend gets: many shared hosting plans bundle both for under $3\u002Fmo. 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