Mastering PHP 7

Setting up the server machine

We previously mentioned there are several hosting solutions that allow full control over the server machine. These solutions come in form of VPS, dedicated and cloud services. For the purpose of this example, we will be using the Vultr Cloud Compute (VC2), which is available at https://www.vultr.com. Without going too deep into the ins and outs of the Vultr service, it's suffice to say it provides an affordable cloud compute service via an easy-to-use administration interface.

Assuming we have created a Vultr account, the first thing we want to do now is to add our workstation SSH public key to it. We can easily do so through Vultr's Servers | SSH Keys interface:

Once the SSH Key is saved, we can go back to ...