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I discovered the total-game changing remote server option in VS Code recently. This has really made a huge difference to my workflow as now I can work at the office, home or out and about without having to spin up vagrant/homestead. HIGHLY recommended.
Anyway, I wonder if anyone can share some tips on things I can 'turn off' on my shiny new Digital Ocean server that I created using forge?
The whole server is locked down to only my IP addresses.
I'm sure there will be services running on there that I don't need and could potentially speed the whole server up for me? It's fairly fast just now, but I feel there is room for improvement.
Related: I notice the memory usage sits at about 1.2G of 2G all the time (which seems high to me considering its doing nothing)
The servers for hackers website has a section on this. Forge installs a few services which you might not need, you can create "Recipes" in Forge which you can run against a server. Or you can just SSH into the droplet and run them manually.
See this for more info: https://serversforhackers.com/scaling-laravel/forge/forge-recipes
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