Does Laravel Forge supports GoDaddy, Both my domain and hosting is with godaddy.

Forge is the middleman and doesn't offer a 'default' setup for GoDaddy.

If you rent a VPS from GoDaddy you can use Forge but for basic FTP uploading, etc, there is no link.

@Jam0r Okay i have shared hosting ! Is it okay ? And i need push to deploy.

No, it's not. You can't use Forge or Envoyer with shared hosting. You will have to use FTP or zip it up and unpack on hosting account. However, you better make sure you have the minimum requirements for Laravel. There are many articles on deploying Laravel to shared hosting. Just perform a Google search.

https://medium.com/@kunalnagar/deploying-laravel-5-on-godaddy-shared-hosting-888ec96f64cd#.end0j7r4y

People still use shared hosting?

On a series note, really should look into Digital Ocean or Linod for inexpensive hosting. You can get by with $10 month which is competitive to godaddy. But suggest the $20 month. Huge difference in performance.

Secondly look into Hover for domains. Almost instantly ready and any set up changes are also almost instant.

This adds so much more control and using forge is a snap to deploy and be done.

Many shared hosts will give you ssh access if you ask for it (some charge extra for it though). While you wont have root access and cannot use something like forge to manage the entire server you can use Envoy to make deployment easier than manually doing it through FTP.

If you want something better then dump shared hosting. Cloud-based hosting like digitalocean or amazon aws isn't really much more expensive anyway.

Interesting stuff here.

1. Laravel site gives vague information on going from a development site on my local machine, to a production site on my cloud host. There are lots of search engine results, but I have not found anything the specifically tells me the steps. In fact, I am not even sure if I have to re-create on my local machine the production site, and then upload, or what?

2. So much of the search engine results say use 'git' and 'your repo' and by golly its all so great. I had enough trouble getting laravel to work, and that was supposed to be simple, I am leery of anything 'easy' these days. In fact, most of the code supplied online by helpful and well-meaning is out of date or buggy itself....well, it all takes time to wade through.

3. I don't mind signing up for forge, but I have to sign up just to find out my cloud host is not supported? I am using both siteground and tmd and was going to open a new account at bluehost.

4. How nice that envoy is suggested. But the laravel site says apparently not for windows. Oh well.

5. So, questions are a) can I use any host with forge? and b) can somebody point me to a step-by-step on taking my development site from my localhost to a production cloudhost someplace?

Thanks in advance