Server Management With Forge

Services like DigitalOcean and Linode are incredibly cheap and scalable, however, they do assume a certain level of server administration knowledge. Even with these skills, performing common tasks can prove to be a burden. Thankfully, Laravel Forge, built by the creator of Laravel (Taylor Otwell), is here to save the day.

• Say Hello to Forge
• Why Forge?
• Your First Project
• Connecting to Your Database
• Using Environment Variables
• Scheduling Tasks
• Queues with Forge
• Hooking Up a Custom Domain Name
• Hooking into New Relic
• Supplementary: What's New in Forge?
• Transition Forge Deployments to Envoyer
• PHP 7 with Free SSL in Minutes
• Set Up a Staging Server