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Hello everyone,
I've completed a Laravel 8 project with VueJS and Tailwind and all is working as expected locally and now I want to take it to the next level. Since this is my first time ever to host and deploy something to a real domain.
I was thinking to buy a domain from Namecheap and learn about aws and deploy my website there since I'm doing this only for the purpose of learning and gaining experience. I don't want to pay much because as I explained I'm just learning how to configure a project, buy a domain, host and deploy it.
I can google my way into doing anything but i need your experience telling me the steps from buying a domain to making my website live.
If just starting out, and you want to learn, I can suggest buying a digital ocean droplet (or similar), and install LAMP/LEMP stack yourself. These are extremely cheap servers that only cost you money for the time the server is actually running.
Digital ocean has a lot of really good step by step guides. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu-20-04
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