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What is the best way to deploy laravel application

I am currently using shared host from hostgator but i have read that its best not to use shared hosting, so i was wondering what is the best way to deploy laravel application on the server, i have read about digitalocean but i am confused on how to use it and deploy my application

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If you can afford it, I suggest getting either forge or ploi (I use ploi). They set up the server for you on digitalocean

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@abdallahsawaqi digitalocean or similar. Ploi and forge are just for setting up a server for you and helping you deploy to them. They don't have servers

If you already know how to set up a webserver, you can of course do it yourself. I know how but still prefer ploi as it just speeds up everything

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@Sinnbeck ok I get it so digitalocean is webserver. forge and ploi is used to set up the server, so I can use digital ocean just by its self

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Ploi has a free trial. It just cost the uptime of the digital ocean server. So you can try it out for a few days or weeks

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@jlrdw yes I have read the article but I still confused I think I need to do more research,so you recommend that I should just follow their article

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