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Discussion on: Do Developers Still Use PHP (and why that’s the wrong question to ask)

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Lorraine Lee

What exactly can you spin up on DigitalOcean for $5, and most importantly, how? I'm not trying to be a wiseass, I'm genuinely curious. I'm not a real developer (just an enthusiast programmer). I use PHP for all projects, including new projects, that are "web facing" for the simple reason that LAMP-stack hosting is basically a commodity, has a going rate of $0-10 per month, and certain core things can usually be safely assumed in any given LAMP environment. To the extent that I've window shopped things like Heroku and DigitalOcean I seem to be getting that there's a free tier that's designed to be only useful for hobby or portfolio projects, and that the paid plans start somewhere in the neighborhood of $60 a month (plus I'm way too hosting-illiterate to understand their description of what they're offering in this tier). Obviously I've been misreading the "plans" page of these websites (or perhaps read the wrong document entirely). I'm like Goldilocks, I need something in between the postmodern hosting industry's $0 tier and its $60 tier. If the catch there is that you can use any backend language as long as it's PHP, I find that a minor speed bump.

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Nikola Stojaković

See this: digitalocean.com/pricing

You have an option for $5 which gives you a droplet with 1GB transfer, 25 GB storage, 1 GB RAM and 1 vCPU. It's more than enough for my WordPress blog. You can also choose the operating system (I typically use Debian since it's great for the servers and isn't cluttered like Ubuntu). Now, how it exactly done would take longer to write. I basically SSH into my droplet, set up PHP, Nginx, MySQL, do some administrative tasks to better protect the system and then install WordPress. I've been doing these things for years now but DigitalOcean has great guides which explain how you can set up your application on it.

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