Lesson 6 of 6
VPS & Cloud Intro
A VPS (Virtual Private Server) gives you full control over a virtual machine. You install everything yourself: the operating system, web server (Apache/Nginx), PHP, MySQL, etc. Cloud providers like DigitalOcean, Linode, and Hetzner offer cheap VPS plans.
This is how professional developers host production applications.
DEPLOY
# Setting up a VPS (simplified):
# 1. Create a server (Ubuntu Linux)
# 2. Connect via SSH: ssh root@your-server-ip
# 3. Update system: apt update && apt upgrade
# 4. Install web server: apt install nginx
# 5. Install PHP: apt install php-fpm
# 6. Install MySQL: apt install mysql-server
# 7. Upload your code
# 8. Point your domain to the server IP
# Cloud providers:
# - DigitalOcean, Linode, Hetzner, AWS, Azure, GCP