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How to use Laravel Vapor without having to use RDS

You can use Larvel Vapor with an existing MySQL/Postgres instance, just like you did before Vapor!

Watch the video below to learn how we can connect our Vapor applications to existing database instances without having to pay for RDS.

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Ricardo Valenzuela • Edited

I am trying to connect to a managed public database in digitalocean, i modify the variable, but still do not allow connection. Any more ideas?

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Elliot

What are the performance implications of using e.g. a public managed database, and making all those database requests externally?