> Forge is a laravel only platform
That's incorrect. The page says: "We don’t discriminate: Laravel, Symfony, WordPress, Statamic, Craft and any other PHP application can easily be installed on a Forge server."
> doesn't scale automatically
That's true but I the person to whom I was responding isn't looking for auto-scaling (nor am I presenting it as a GAE competitor). It sounds like he just wants a button to push that'll create a fully operational PHP app server.