[Request]: Adding a guide on deploying Sprapi using cPanel

[monacodelisa]

Summary

It would be nice to have a guide showing how to deploy Strapi using cPanel,
similar to the other guides showing how to deploy using AWS, Azure, Heroku, DigitalOcean etc.

Why is it needed?

A lot of developers are using cPanel, maybe not always because it was their own choice but it is still widely used.

Suggested solution(s)

I would like to be able to find this guide on the official documentation and not having to look trough unofficial suggestions - that may or may not work.

Related issue(s)/PR(s)

No response

[pwizla]

Hello @monacodelisa and thank you for your request.
I'm Pierre, Lead Technical Writer at Strapi.
This quarter (Q2 2024), we will move most of the 3rd party guides (deployment and integration) out of docs.strapi.io, so adding more guides to the official documentation is not likely to happen.
However, docs.strapi.io will have more & more cross-reference to other resources.

Here's what I suggest: I'll file a request to strapi/community-content with a call for authors on the topic, and someone from the Strapi community will write a blog (tutorial) article about it. What would you like to see in this guide? 😊

[monacodelisa]

@monacodelisa an article sounds great :) yes for me the biggest thing is to have a source of truth that I can consider reliable / official :) And maybe if you could consider me as a co-author ? I already found and implemented what I was looking for but also found a lot of information that was not covered as well as contradicting information. To me a good article would have precise information that has been already tested - recently. I am actually planning on making a YouTube video because the only helpful YouTube video that I found covering this specific deploy was in Spanish, it was still very helpful but also did not cover few things. I really like using Strapi and I feel that this information - although it covers a lot of cPanel specifics, would be best presented from the Strapi side. I am an open source maintainer & contributor - I would like to help in any way I can

[pwizla]

Thank you very much for your suggestions! Would you be interested in submitting this article yourself? Contributions made by community members through strapi/community-content are paid :)

I understand that you would like this to be written and maintained by Strapi, or at least featured in the official Strapi docs, but unfortunately the Documentation team at Strapi is really tiny and we are unable to maintain all 3rd-party guides. Additionally, Strapi's strategy for 2024, including for docs, is to focus on core, 1st-party features and docs and improve them even further.

However, I will personally review selected topics like this one — should it be written by you or someone else — especially if we cross-reference them from the official docs, so the content that will be published could be trusted (at least, as long cPanel does not change too much 😅 — again, maintenance of 3rd parties is always the most difficult for us 😅).

[monacodelisa]

@pwizla I completely understand, yes covering 3rd party integration is not simple, things change and of course 1st-party features and docs are always the top priority. I would love to submit the article and I will go an look up how to do it, thank you 🙏

[pwizla]

Great! I would then suggest that, once you feel ready, you create a new issue in strapi/community-content with the "Content Proposal From Writer" template, and you can add tag me in the description of the issue so that I can follow-up.

Alternatively, I could create a "Request for content" issue myself, but doing this would kick-off a call for proposal which exposes you to other writers submitting content on the same topic — something I presume you might want to avoid? 😄

[monacodelisa]

@pwizla I submitted it a moment before I saw your replay, I am glad that I chose the correct template, tagged you in description Deploy Strapi on shared hosting using cPanel. Yes correct I would like to avoid the call for proposal ☺️ thank you