Finding RAM space needed

Hey @dixitchopra , I recommend you to start with Forge & DigitalOcean and make sure you fully understand what each service does for you. Try reading some threads on Laracasts such as this one:

• https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/servers/where-to-start-learning-server-management

The short answer for your question is : it depends on the application you built but you will probably be fine with a $10 or $20 droplets which could be scaled to bigger droplets easily in the future. Good luck

@mehany thanks and how good is DigitalOceam compared to AWS? Is it reliable because I won't be able to handle downtime.

@dixitchopra DigitalOcean does not touch your VPS unless in very rare security cases, they may reboot the server, so no server management is provided by them.

AWS offers more services that you may like. Here is another thread that may interest you:

https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/godaddy-hosting-and-laravel

But AWS could be really complex. It`s not easy if you want a "professional" environment. If you have 0 Linux knowledge i would even not deploy my live app on a digital ocean server.

If you want a managed hosting, go http://www.fortrabbit.com/laravel-hosting

And Forge isnt a hosting provider. Forge just setup the complete environment for you.

If you have Linux knowledge Linode would also be an option.

And if you go for AWS you have lots of additional option like external databases, instances, automaticly scale your instance, loadbalancer etc.

And you have 1 micro instance for free.

But as i said, AWS can be really complex :)

And if you want to have much RAM & CPU i would go for a dedicated server. All the cloudserver companies like Digitalocean, Linode, AWS are really expensive if you need much hardware ressources.

@hostianer Thx that you mentioned Fortrabbit. I was also looking for a managed solution because I don't want to cope with Linux/Apache etc. By the way your company doesn't offer a solution similar to Fortrabbit right?

@StuffedGoat Then fortrabbit would be an option. By the way: Fortrabbit is hosted on AWS. Currently we dont offer a solution like Fortrabbit, but of course we can setup a managed VPS optimized for laravel. However currently we`re only on the german market.