# Unable to zip and download hosted laravel project

**URL:** https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/unable-to-zip-and-download-hosted-laravel-project/116976
**Category:** Hosting Support
**Created:** [December 18, 2025, 6:16am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/unable-to-zip-and-download-hosted-laravel-project/116976 "2025-12-18T06:16:53Z")
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### Author: ![dan3008](https://forum.infinityfree.com/user_avatar/forum.infinityfree.com/dan3008/32/53336_2.png) [@dan3008](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/dan3008)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2025, 9:09am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/unable-to-zip-and-download-hosted-laravel-project/116976/2 "2025-12-18T09:09:44Z")

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Welcome to the forum 🙂

If you’re trying to generate the ZIP on the server, its likely that its larger than 10mb, and so is deleted due to the file size limit.

This article can help with making backups

> [@How to backup your website](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-backup-your-website/49304):
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> Good website administration requires making backups of your account regularly and storing them somewhere safe yourself. You also need to download backups in order to migrate website to other hosting accounts. InfinityFree does not create or store any backups of free hosting accounts. It’s your responsibility to regularly create backups, and to store them somewhere safely. Backup your website files The best way to backup your website files is by downloading them using a desktop FTP client. Op…

Rather than creating a zip and downloading it, you may need to download everything over FTP (clients like [filezilla](https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client) make this easier) and then archiving it (if you really want a zip file)

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