Jasper Frumau

Author: Jasper Frumau

You want to check your internet connectivity. You need something to test your connection that day as you are having issues. I found a nice bash script to check internet uptime and tweaked it for us all to use with ease.
Sometimes you spend so much time tweaking Redis and queues run in Redis, you forget there are great tools out there to help you out. Let's talk Horizon Run Redis Queues and an issue you could run into as well.

Laradock & Traefik

To avoid the pain of setting up Let's Encrypt SSL and to work with a better load balancer / reverse proxy I decided to do a Laradock & Traefik setup. And I must say I have been pleasantly surprised so far!

WordPress on Laradock

Had an issue with Advanced Custom Fields, Reactivated my Ianua theme with the ACF plugin built in. Found out the Home Page field Group Call to Action url was no longer responding. And whatever I did it did not matter. It would only just load the homepage url. So I decided to update Advanced Custom Fields Pro to the latest. And why not use the opportunity to run WordPress on Laradock?
To setup a WordPress website on Digital Ocean there are multiple ways to to do it. You can do an amazing Trellis setup, you can use a one-click WordPress image or you can set up things manually following their tutorials. Here is a short list of how do do it manually setup by step following their tutorials to get a site up and running on a LEMP using a Ubuntu 18.0.4 Droplet

Been bothering me for a long time that there are no great blog posts on setting up Laravel for Production. There are plenty of blogs out there on development setups,