Server Requirements
To run Statamic 3 you’ll need a server meeting the following requirements. These are all pretty standard in most modern hosting platforms.
- PHP
>= 7.2.5 - BCMath PHP Extension
- Ctype PHP Extension
- JSON PHP Extension
- Mbstring PHP Extension
- OpenSSL PHP Extension
- PDO PHP Extension
- Tokenizer PHP Extension
- XML PHP Extension
- GD Library or ImageMagick
Recommended Hosts
We recommend using Digital Ocean to host most Statamic sites. Their servers are fast, inexpensive, and we use them ourselves. Full disclosure: that’s an affiliate link but we wouldn’t recommend them if it wasn’t an excellent option.
We also maintain a user-contributed Github repo full of other host recommendations.
Development Environments
All of these requirements are satisfied by the Laravel Homestead virtual machine, which makes it a great local Laravel development environment. Virtual machines aren’t for everybody though, so here are a couple of other options.
MacOS: Laravel Valet
Laravel Valet is a development environment for Mac minimalists. No Vagrant, No Apache, No Nginx, No need to manually edit hosts file. It simply maps all the subdirectories in a “web” directory (such as ~/Sites) to .test or .localhost domains.
You can even share your sites publicly using local tunnels. We use it ourselves and it’s brilliant.
Windows: WAMP
Laragon and WAMP are both good choice for those of the Windows persuasion.