Learn how to use a very simple and efficient service called ServerPilot for provisioning a web server to host your next PHP project or blog.
Provisioning a well-configured web server for a PHP application is not an easy task. You can have experience doing that, but this is not my strongest skill, I admit. So I’m always looking for new services and tools to make this job easier for me, and faster.
I’m a big fan of Laravel Forge and the company I run for years was (and is) a very happy Forge customer. Unfortunately, my goal, for now, was to find a place to host my blog, after some changes I’ve made in the last weeks.
I run my blog using Jekyll and GitHub Pages for years, but I was writing less then I expect. I like the WordPress platform, and mainly writing on its editor, so I decided to move back to WP. Then I create a new droplet on DigitalOcean using their LAMP box. The droplet was running well, but sometimes Apache could not handle everything well, then I needed to add an NGINX reverse-proxy to make things easier. There’s when I discovered ServerPilot.
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