I'm looking at getting a dedicated server and I'll be deploying various apps to it, mainly using;
Nuxt JS, Laravel and Vue
So far I've seen the following server management tools;
Laravel Forge, Ploi.io and cleavr.io
Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with the above? They aren't really simple to trial due to installing the software on the server etc.
Both Forge and Ploi are good options in my opinion (with Ploi offering a few extra featured over Forge), but both require a bit of server knowledge to set up automatic deployments for your project, especially Nuxt.
With a free tier on either service, you should be able to set up a small server which you can test with at low cost. The default deploy scripts that the services provide are more suited for Laravel projects.
For a NuxtJS deployment, you would have to do the following:
Set up a site on the service, which generates an NGINX config for that site
Edit the site configuration to proxy to your Nuxt instance running on the server
Use a service like PM2 to keep your Nuxt instance running
Happy to go through that process with you if you need any information regarding it.
@JakeCausier Hey Jake,
Thanks for the reply! Both look great, I think it's going to be a hard choice. Do you use either? I might need to pick your brains once I deploy to it.
Cheers,
@BenWortley I use Forge for freelance work and Ploi for my day-to-day job. Ploi even has community-submitted server configs which can get you going with Nuxt very easily, definitely one of the bigger plusses over Forge.
@JakeCausier That's a nice position to be in with being able to test both. After using both do you have a preferred one? That is a really nice feature for Ploi to have, could save a lot of hassle down the line.
@BenWortley I definitely prefer Ploi, the developers are a lot more up to speed with adding new features over Forge, like status pages, automatic server package upgrading, insights that suggest automatic fixes (such as child worker limits being reached) and more. Very helpful.
@JakeCausier I like what I'm hearing! I presume they stay up to date with server security etc? I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and test on two servers and go from there...
