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July 18, 2026 ·
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Deploying a three-app stack on a single DigitalOcean Droplet

One API, one Next.js storefront, and one static admin SPA — all living on the same box behind Nginx, with PM2 keeping the Node processes alive and Certbot handling TLS. A command-by-command walkthrough of the whole deploy.
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