If you want to install Craft CMS, there are actually two methods to do it via ssh. One is to download the installer and run it. Second is to use the composer install command to directly install it.

Laravel is a great framework for building a SaaS application. Laravel based SaaS apps performs faster and are more secure.

Apache is a great addition to the stack if you want great performance. The platform I am using for apache server hosting also uses nginx that further boosts the performance.

I don't understand. Is Twill a CMS toolkit that adds some functionality or a full fledged CMS? I have heard of a lot of Laravel CMS, but this is new to me.

I am also using CouchCMS on a Debian server. The web hosting with php and mysql I am using has Debian based stack with Apache and Nginx. I was following your guide to integrate Couch on a custom PHP website.

For PHP, there is another well-know PaaS, Cloudways. This PaaS is great for hosting PHP MySQL websites because you don't have to manually setup a stack there. You can launch the server with PHP installed

Nice tutorial on CRUD. There is another method to make CRUD in PHP, which is using prepared statement. This method is used to execute same query multiple times with high efficiency. Source: Simple crud

Lumen is also a great micro framework for creating rest api. You can create rest api in Lumen by creating migration, routes, controller and model, same as you do in Laravel since this microframework is

You can also integrate elasticsearch in this codeigniter based search engine to make it faster. Integrating elasticsearch is pretty easy. You can create the environment using elasticsearch class and create

Envoyer has made it really easy to deploy PHP application on server with zero downtime. All I have to do is just connect my repository and server from my Envoyer account. This tool saves a lot of time