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This is a step-by-step guide for deploying a Strapi v4 project to DigitalOcean's App Platform with managed mySql Database. If you don't have a DigitalOcean account you will need to create one, you can use this referral link to get $100 of free credits. The only things you need to change are what you should use in the most things most things you should change are named named named environment variables. You cannot deploy on DigitalOcean unless you have your code on GitHub. Please do not build or run strapi server - this is important.