Laravel Website on Digital Ocean keeps crashing

Did you check the server logs? The laravel logs? Anything strange in there?

Hey buddy I don't know about laravel forge but I guess it's the one causing the issue like restaring a server or other funy stuff I recomment to disable laravel forge a little time and try configure digitalocean itself with no aditional support of third party.

I found the 512MB instance was to small for me. But I experienced the crash only when deploying. Thats not the case for you right?

I read somewhere that Forge needs more than 512MB. So youre site is probably fine on 512MB by itself, but if you use Forge, it won't work properly.

@jasonlosito check and make sure you have turned swap on for your droplet. Without that you will crash when you run out of memory, especially on a small one. Here is a link to another forum thread where they discuss setting up the swap [https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/forge/does-forge-run-ok-on-a-digitalocean-512mb-instance].

Won't be a solution if you end up doing more than what the droplet can handle, but should help you prevent most of the crashes.

I'm running a laravel website on digital ocean on the smallest droplet and it runs great. Very low load though and not using forge, just a standard ubuntu box that I installed laravel onto. I used this guide amongst others to get going https://www.evernote.com/l/AAcVksmwcaJHp6LzSzZIOkS46BABLUvHAeQ

MySQL 5.7 minimum requirement is 1gb. So if you have more then 10 users online at once with an average amount of queries good luck.

Forge only installs a Ubuntu box with the same software as homestead. Nothing more invasive then that. A Cpannel if you will but not hosted on the server like most. It just sshs into your server after set up to further set configurations.

Never get why people think forge is so invasive. Nothing more then a predefined commands.