Level 10
You can use Laravel Forge with Digital Ocean.
check this out https://laracasts.com/series/learn-laravel-forge/
Jan 28, 2019
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Level 4
where to host
Hi... I need your guide on hosting my website?
Its an online training website, where we teach people how to do repairs. so its going to be containing a whole lot of media files (videos, pictures, etc ...).
I have heard much about amazon, digital ocean & vultr
but I dont know which of this three is good to go with. and I really dont want something that will cost me a whole lot of money).
Level 4
laravel forge is just going to demand an extra fee... cant afford that at the moment
Level 19
@SUCCESSDAV - Amazon, Digital Ocean, and Vultr, are all going to be self managed, which means you will have to build your LAMP or LEMP stack yourself. You are best to put in the investment to Laravel Forge and the something like DO, or Vultr.
At the end of the day you will have more control over your server, and the other hosting companies are going to charge your more or equal to what you are going to pay for Forge + DO or Forge + Vultr. Not to mention that most hosting companies do the whole "Intro rate" which they lock you in a good deal for the first term, and then there after you are paying the full price of the server/hosting. Just something to think about...
Level 67
Digital ocean has many tutorials for setting up a server for laravel if you google. Since you're needing to keep costs down and not use something like Forge, you'll have to do it all manually and keep on top of updates, etc.
Just a FYI if you are on the Trial for Forge and you cancel it, it won't delete the server it created (same if you cancel the plan after paying) and you'd still have manual control over it. You just couldn't use Forge any longer to change settings or add sites, etc., but you could still do that manually. Forge just saves a lot of time, especially if you aren't comfortable setting servers up, the database, users, firewalls, web server and whatever else your app would need from scratch.
Level 8
You can set up Forge and DigitalOcean if they are in your price range. I would absolutely recommend Forge if you can, as it will automate everything and makes everything so easy to set up and configure. Or as @cronix mentioned, you can just pay for DigitalOcean and set up the LEMP stack yourself.
You can, if really tight for cash, find a cheap shared hosting company and deploy there but I really wouldn't recommend that. Best sticking to something like DigitalOcean.
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