PHP2Shell, two critical holes in PHP itself (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), was announced on 21 October 2026. In a big PHP monolith, one unpatched runtime puts every feature at risk, and builds on PHP 8.1 or older can't take the fix. Don't worry: in 7 days we move the monolith to patched PHP 8.4 and put your first extracted service live. Read the latest report.
Our PHP to microservices migration services in USA and UK markets are for products that have outgrown a single PHP codebase. When one deploy can break checkout, search and invoicing at once, splitting the system into smaller services owned by small teams can restore speed and safety.
We do not do big-bang rewrites. We use the strangler fig pattern: put a gateway in front of the monolith, pull out one business area at a time, such as payments, notifications or search, as its own service with its own database, and route traffic to it. The rest of the PHP app keeps running, on a patched PHP 8.4, until each piece has been replaced or deliberately left alone.
We have more than a decade of web development experience. Our team in India keeps hours that overlap with US Eastern and UK time, works to a fixed price per phase and gets the first extracted service into production within a week.
When splitting a PHP monolith pays off
Microservices solve team and scale problems, not code-tidiness problems. Here is what they give a product that has truly hit those limits.
Deploy one part at a time
A change to invoicing ships on its own, so a bug there cannot take the whole site down with it.
Scale the busy parts
Search or image processing can run on more containers while the admin area stays small, so you stop paying to scale everything.
Right tool per job
Services can stay in PHP with Laravel or Symfony, or use Go, Node.js or Python where that suits the workload better.
What each phase delivers
- Domain map of the monolith with clear service boundaries
- Monolith upgraded to patched PHP 8.4 so it is safe while it shrinks
- API gateway or reverse proxy that routes traffic per path
- First service extracted with its own API and data store
- Events and messages through RabbitMQ, Kafka or Amazon SQS
- Docker images and deployment to Kubernetes or Amazon ECS
- Central logging, tracing and health checks across services
- CI pipelines so each service builds, tests and deploys alone
The first 7 days of the split
Day 1: Find the seams
We map modules, database tables and traffic, pick the first service to extract, and fix the price for this phase.
Days 2-4: Patch and extract
The monolith moves to PHP 8.4, the gateway goes in, and the first service is built with its own API and data.
Days 5-6: Shadow traffic
We compare the new service's responses with the monolith's on real requests and fix every difference.
Day 7: Route live
The gateway sends real traffic to the new service, with instant rollback to the monolith if anything looks wrong.
PHP monolith vs microservices
The trade-offs, both good and bad, of splitting the system.
| PHP monolith | Microservices | |
|---|---|---|
| Deploys | Everything ships together | Each service ships on its own schedule |
| Failure impact | One bug can stop the whole app | Faults are contained to one service |
| Scaling | Scale the whole app or nothing | Scale only the busy services |
| Data | One shared database | Each service owns its own data |
| Running costs | One app to host and watch | More moving parts, needs good monitoring |
| Team fit | Fine for one small team | Suits several teams working in parallel |
Why choose us to break up your monolith
We have no interest in selling you forty services. We extract only what earns its keep.
Small steps, always reversible
Every extraction can be rolled back at the gateway, so the business never depends on a half-finished rewrite.
Fixed price per phase after a free architecture review.
NDA signed before we access your repository or infrastructure.
Microservices migration for product teams in the USA and UK
This service is meant for SaaS companies and digital product teams in the United States and the United Kingdom whose PHP monolith now slows every release. Our working hours overlap with US Eastern and UK time, so your engineers get answers the same day.
An offshore team cuts the cost of a multi-phase migration well below local consultancy rates, while you keep one technical lead as your contact, a written roadmap, an NDA and fixed dates for each phase.
Official sources: PHP supported versions · Microservices on AWS
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers about our PHP to Microservices Migration service.
In 7 days most small and medium monoliths are on patched PHP 8.4 with the first service extracted and live. A full split of a large system is phased, but the first part is always live inside those 7 days, and each later phase has its own price and date.
No. Many services stay in PHP with Laravel, Symfony or Slim on PHP 8.4. We only change language where there is a clear reason, such as Go for a high-throughput API.
Gradually. A new service first reads through an API or a synced copy, then takes ownership of its tables. We avoid two services writing to the same table.
No. For a small team or a modest app, a well-structured modular monolith on PHP 8.4 is cheaper and simpler. We recommend microservices only when deploy pain or scaling needs justify the extra running cost.
At minimum, containers, a gateway, a message queue and central logging. We usually run this on Amazon ECS or Kubernetes, sized to your traffic so you do not pay for idle clusters.
Yes. Product teams across the United States and United Kingdom work with us on their hours, with an NDA, a fixed price per phase and a technical lead who reports every working day.
Is your PHP app still on an old version?
Send us the URL or the repository. We check it for the PHP2Shell flaw and old code for free, and tell you what a 7-day migration looks like.
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