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Via Laravel Forge

When provisioning a server via Laravel Forge, make sure to do the following:

  1. Consider the best region to create the server in.
  2. Choose a suitable VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) for the server, which means one specific to the client and environment (e.g. vpc-silo-acceptance). This field may be labelled 'Private network' in Laravel Forge. If no suitable one exists, navigate to DigitalOcean to create it first and restart the server creation process in Laravel Forge afterwards.
  3. Choose appropriate specs for the server. Upsizing it later is easier than downsizing.
  4. Consider which dependencies (e.g. PHP / Database server) should be installed, and disable ones that are not needed.
  5. Enable theĀ