
IntroductionThere are many ways and tools on how to export or backup your MySQL databases. In my opinion, mysqldump is a great tool to accomplish this task.The mysqldump tool can be used to dump a database or a collection of databases for backup...

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The good and the bad of using Vapor
PublishedLast year Tylor Otwell, the creator of the Laravel PHP framework, made an announcement about the new deployment platform named Laravel Vapor. It was a huge game-changer for the whole PHP/Laravel ecosystem. It allows developers to set u...

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IntroductionRecently I had to setup a Docker Web Interface for one of my Docker hosts so that it could be easier for the rest of my team to check the status of our Docker Containers, restart them in case that they needed to and also go through the co...

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In this tutorial I'll show you how you could horizontally scale up your Laravel application by adding multiple database instances.In case you are not familiar with the term 'horizontal scaling', it simply means that you scale up by adding more machin...

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Bash is a Unix shell, which is a command line interface (CLI) for interacting with an operating system. Any command that you can run from the command line can be used in a bash script. Scripts are used to run a series of commands. Bash is available b...

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Contact Form with Voyager and Laravel
PublishedThis is an easy step by step guide on how to add a contact from to your Voyager application.PrerequisitesBefore you begin you need to make sure that you have Laravel and Voyager up and running and that you've sorted out your database connection.If yo...

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HAProxy is great solution for load balancing as it does not require lots of resources, it is scalable, easy to setup and fairly simple to manage. In this guide I'll show you how to install and configure HAProxy and load balance 2 Apache Web Servers.T...

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This is a step by step guide on how to create a new droplet via your Digital Ocean control panel, manually install and configure your LAMP stack, deploy Laravel and then install Voyager.We will go though the following steps:Create a droplet SSH to th...
