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TuffRivers's avatar

Best Hosting Solution

Hi All, what are you go to laravel hosting solutions? Right now i usually go Digital Ocean VPS + Managed DB which runs be about $20-$25/mo (low usage webapps/sites).

It is a bit cumbersome to setup a new VPS so just wondering if there was a faster/better way, but not sure if there is a cheaper solution.

Thanks

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Sinnbeck's avatar

You can use a service like ploi or forge to set up the servers for you on digital ocean

TuffRivers's avatar

@Sinnbeck is that just abstracting the process of setting up the VPS manually like i already do - with added costs? Not being snarky generally curious - dont mind paying more for convenience and increased useability

Sinnbeck's avatar

@TuffRivers they provide other features as well. Deployment handling. Zero downtime deployment. Easy set up of daemons/cron etc. And more

Ploi has a free tier if you want to tests it out

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