Radicle Deployment/Hosting

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Hey,

Just wondering what people are using for hosting/deployment. I’ve used Laravel Forge in the past for my Bedrock deployments. Can I still use it for Radicle? Would I be able to run the WP commands and the Acorn stuff in the deployment script? Would I have to install the WP Cli on that droplet maybe?

-=Chris

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I’m mostly using Trellis but I also work on a large WooCommerce site that’s managed with Docker and Kubernetes

Forge should work as long as you install WP-CLI

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Thanks I’ll try it out with Forge and see how it goes.

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If Forge doesn’t work out, you can try Hetzner. I was a complete noobie when I set up Trellis for the first time and I was genuinely surprised by how easy it was. It basically boils down to:

  1. Set the IP for the server in trellis/hosts/production
  2. Decide on how you’re going to be adding HTTPS to your site. I’m using Cloudflare and it works great
  3. Trellis provision production
  4. Trellis deploy production
  5. Move the DB and the images to the new server, one way or another. PS. rsync is infinitely faster than scp if you have a lot of images.
  6. Point the DNS to the new site

Voila, it works!

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Hi and thanks for a great product and your time developing it. Have any of you any experience with Leasewebstore ? It seems like you get so much more than other similar solutions, so unsure if to good to be true :slight_smile:

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Kinsta is another option if you don’t want to manage your servers, and you could use Trellis for deployment if you wanted

You would replace web/ with public/ in this guide, but it’s also missing the new Trellis CLI commands for better DX of using Ansible

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What’s the advantages/disadvantages of using Kinsta instead of Digital Ocean/Hetzner/any other VPS in practice?

Like, what’s the intended use case here? “Set up a Trellis site for a client and then never touch it again”?

Maybe I’m overly skeptical but it seems like if you can figure out “trellis deploy production” then you can change the PHP configs yourself.

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Advantages of Kinsta versus self-managed VPS (other managed hosts might have similar benefits):

  • Don’t need to worry about troubleshooting random server issues at 2am
  • No server maintenance overhead
    • No real need to update Trellis, or migrate a VPS to a newer version of Ubuntu
  • Automatic daily backups
  • CDN included without additional setup
  • Support team available 24/7
  • DDoS protection via Cloudflare
  • Horizontal scaling when a site suddenly gets traffic spikes
  • No need to maintain expertise in server administration as your business grows
  • Compliance certifications handled for you if clients need them
  • Uptime monitoring and automatic failover
  • Time saved can be spent on actual development or client work

(Of course a lot of these can be integrated with Trellis)

When Trellis + VPS makes sense:

  • You enjoy/need full control over server configuration
  • You’re managing many sites and want to optimize hosting costs
  • You have the time/expertise to handle server maintenance
  • Client has specific infrastructure requirements
  • You want to learn/maintain DevOps skills

If anyone is interested in Kinsta, please consider using our referral link. Lots of folks in our community are using Kinsta and happy with them, and some of them have been using Kinsta for almost 10 years at this point.

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This alone makes it worth checking out. Thanks!

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