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Has anyone tried running a high-traffic app on DigitalOcean’s App Platform?

Posted on February 26, 2025

Curious about performance and scaling experiences!



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Hi there,

I’ve been running a Laravel SaaS app on DigitalOcean’s App Platform for a while now, and it’s been solid!

The auto-scaling handles traffic spikes without me having to worry about provisioning servers manually and the auto deploy on push saves a bunch of time.

For the backend, I’m using:

  • Managed Postgres for the database 👉 Docs
  • Managed Redis for caching and sessions 👉 Docs
  • Spaces for handling user uploads 👉 Docs

Everything works smoothly together, and I don’t have to deal with server maintenance. If your app is high-traffic, make sure to tweak your resource limits and enable auto-scaling 👉 Docs

It’s a great setup if you want something that just works without managing a full Kubernetes setup.

- Bobby

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