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why dont you compare the features and then see which one provides what u want - forge doesnt give you that much apart from setting up server, queue management..
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Nov 10, 2017
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Forge versus Virtualmin versus Serverpilot versus ?
Hello, I read several discussions here and on the internet but I still am not clear about what to choose. I have a VPS with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installed and with it comes Plesk Onyx. But it seems I always have problems with it so I am looking for other ways to administrate my VPS. As I don't want to spend to much time in doing the controlling part of the server myself, besides that it isn't what I am good at, I am looking for this extra layer what those companies in my title offer. There are far more I have encountered like Puphet, Fortrabbit and Ansible and I am just wondering which one would be a good choice or aren't they that different nowadays? Does it matter what I am planning to do (multisite)? Some are free, some are paid. Some are specially focused on Laravel, but, are they than just better?
Any suggestions, sharing of experiences are welcome.
Level 1
Well in a way I did by reading through all of them. I like Virtualmin and Serverpilot as you have a free and paid version, so if the free version isn't enough in the long run I can switch. But ServerPilot hasn't free SSL in the free version. For Puphet I need to know more about everything I have to install, which in a way is also a good thing. Forge I find too expensive in comparison with the others. Ansible looks more complicated. But I have no experience with each of them so if others would like to share their experience with those providers and using Laravel, that would be great.
Level 6
Hi.
Virtualmin: you have no control at all. If you want to make some changes to the default settings, it is quite hard.
Forge: I have tried it a few years ago (just for a test server), and I was not very happy. I tried it a month ago thinking that the product would have been a little bit more mature; No. It lacks documentation and the support is very very very slow and a little approximate in their answers. Positive: deploying an app from github works well. But not from other git servers.
Serverpilot (paid version): Easy to use and well documented with a quick support. It seems to work ok. Negative: no deploy script.
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