Time is money. ServBay allows developers to use it out of the box, requiring no deployment of code or relearning, truly achieving zero code and zero configuration, thus saving a lot of time. This allows developers to focus on project development itself, rather than wasting time on environment setup.
Compared to similar software, ServBay stays up to date, maintaining a high frequency of updates to ensure that developers can keep up with the latest technologies. ServBay offers a rich array of packages, whether in programming languages like PHP, Node.js, and Python, or web servers and databases like Caddy, Nginx, and Apache, even Ollama. Developers can freely choose the versions they want, greatly enhancing usability.
Maintaining consistency in team development environments is challenging for team managers. ServBay Team’s Unified Configuration helps development teams align their environments quickly, promoting real-time sharing and collaboration on work outcomes, especially beneficial for agile development teams that require high levels of collaboration, making project management and maintenance across the entire team much simpler and more efficient.
Function |
ServBay |
Laravel Herd |
|---|---|---|
| PHP 5.6 ~ PHP 8.5 | ✓ | ✗ |
| Node.js 12 ~ Node.js 23 | ✓ | ✗ |
| Python Support | ✓ | ✗ |
| Databases (SQL & NoSQL) | ✓ | Paid |
| PKI System (SSL Certificate) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Built-in DNS Server | ✓ | Paid |
| Built-in Mail Server | Paid | Paid |
| LLM (Ollama) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Price | Free/$59 | Free/$99 |
"ServBay simplifies our local development process. How did we manage to go years without it? ServBay Pro is definitely worth every penny."
"ServBay Pro makes local development so simple that I no longer need to worry about the tedious setups. I’m never going back."
"Absolutely fantastic! I've completely abandoned Herd; ServBay is just so easy to use."
"Instead of waiting for Brew to download half the internet to set up PHP, ServBay can do it in just a few seconds."
"We actually use ServBay to kickstart our products. It is crucial to unify the entire team's environment while developing projects."
"Using ServBay saves our team about 30 hours a week, time that was previously spent on maintaining environments or building images. Now they can focus on creating impactful projects."
ServBay provides you with a one-stop local web development environment, serving as a powerful foundation for development. It includes everything you need, such as web servers, databases, programming languages, mail servers, and queue services. Just add development IDEs like vscode, and developers can start coding immediately without any other operations.
ServBay has a free version. For most users, the free version can meet their daily development needs. For some experienced developers or development teams, our professional version is available for deeper functionality configurations. For more details, please refer to our pricing page.
The free version of Laravel Herd only allows basic web services with version limitations; to unlock other services like databases, users need to pay. In contrast, ServBay provides fully functional services for free, while its rich array of packages offers developers maximum flexibility. The free version of ServBay can fully replace the paid Laravel Herd Pro.
Absolutely! ServBay allows support for custom domain names and free SSL certificates, ensuring the security and professionalism of the development environment. Compared to that, Laravel Herd has very limited support, only allowing *.test domain names.
There’s no need to worry at all. ServBay offers a powerful GUI, allowing developers to stack the modules they need together like building with LEGO, achieving zero configuration and zero code right out of the box. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, setting up the services you need can be done easily.
Of course! The design of ServBay aims to help teams create a consistent and easy-to-maintain development environment. With the Unified Configuration feature from ServBay, team managers can control and deploy the environment configurations with one click, thereby unifying the entire team's development environment and reducing differences in the team’s development environment and code.
