My Site Stops Working During Deployments

It depends ENTIRELY on your deployment method.

There are ways to avoid any downtime.

It deploys on push from github and here is my deployment script:

$CREATE_RELEASE()

cd $FORGE_RELEASE_DIRECTORY

$FORGE_COMPOSER install --no-dev --no-interaction --prefer-dist --optimize-autoloader

npm install
npm run build:ssr

$FORGE_PHP artisan storage:link
$FORGE_PHP artisan migrate --force

$ACTIVATE_RELEASE()

$RESTART_QUEUES()

$FORGE_PHP artisan reverb:restart

This is your script from Forge. Are you hosted on Forge? If so, ask them...

I know, this is why I posted it on "Forge" channel :)

@swez_k Did you look at the Forge docs? It has a section on zero-downtime deployments: https://forge.laravel.com/docs/sites/deployments#zero-downtime-deployments

Apparently Forge needs you to stop the SSR server after deployment so it can start the SSR server again on its own without issues. So it was facing issues because I wasn't stopping the SSR server