Scaling Laravel

Here are the recipes we use from within Forge:

App Server

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# Disable Unused Services
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# 1. Beanstalkd

sudo systemctl stop beanstalkd
sudo systemctl disable beanstalkd

# 2. Memcached

sudo systemctl stop memcached
sudo systemctl disable memcached

# 3. Redis

sudo systemctl stop redis
sudo systemctl disable redis

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# Adjust php process management
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sudo sed -i "s/pm.max_children = .*/pm.max_children = 10/" /etc/php/7.1/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
sudo sed -i "s/pm.start_servers = .*/pm.start_servers = 4/" /etc/php/7.1/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
sudo sed -i "s/pm.min_spare_servers = .*/pm.min_spare_servers = 2/" /etc/php/7.1/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
sudo sed -i "s/pm.max_spare_servers = .*/pm.max_spare_servers = 4/" /etc/php/7.1/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
sudo sed -i "s/;pm.max_requests = .*/pm.max_requests = 1000/" /etc/php/7.1/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

sudo service php7.1-fpm restart

Worker and CRON Server

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# Disable Unused Services
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# 1. Beanstalkd

sudo systemctl stop beanstalkd
sudo systemctl disable beanstalkd

# 2. Memcached

sudo systemctl stop memcached
sudo systemctl disable memcached

# 3. Redis

sudo systemctl stop redis
sudo systemctl disable redis

# 4. Nginx

sudo systemctl stop nginx
sudo systemctl disable nginx

# 5. PHP-FPM

sudo systemctl stop php7.1-fpm
sudo systemctl disable php7.1-fpm

MySQL Server

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# Disable Unused Services
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# 1. Nginx

sudo systemctl stop nginx
sudo systemctl disable nginx

# 2. PHP-FPM

sudo systemctl stop php7.1-fpm
sudo systemctl disable php7.1-fpm

# 3. Beanstalkd

sudo systemctl stop beanstalkd
sudo systemctl disable beanstalkd

# 4. Memcached

sudo systemctl stop memcached
sudo systemctl disable memcached

# 5. Redis

sudo systemctl stop redis
sudo systemctl disable redis

Cache (Redis) Server

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# Disable Unused Services
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# 1. Nginx

sudo systemctl stop nginx
sudo systemctl disable nginx

# 2. PHP-FPM

sudo systemctl stop php7.1-fpm
sudo systemctl disable php7.1-fpm

# 3. Beanstalkd

sudo systemctl stop beanstalkd
sudo systemctl disable beanstalkd

# 4. Memcached

sudo systemctl stop memcached
sudo systemctl disable memcached