Laravel - VPS (forge + digital ocean) vs. shared hosting

Hello guys,

currently I am developing an e-shop application in Laravel 5 (no payment there). I would like to host the app on VPS (forge + digital ocean) with the price around 160$ a year (100$ forge + 60$ digital ocean VPS). However, my client is still considering to host it on a shared hosting, which would cost only around 35$ a year. What are the real benefits of hosting the app on VPS (expect speed)? Or how should I persuade him, that this VPS would be worth the price?

Thanks for your answers

craigwebster

11 years ago

Level 3

Flexibilty and scalability are key, you have more control over your server so you can add features more easily, eg queues and caching. As the business grows as you can easily upgrade the ram and cpu, also security is locked down out of the bix with only public key access for ssh and database connections. Yoh can also add more sites at no extra cost.

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bashy

11 years ago

Level 65

Forge isn't really worth it if you don't want to keep rolling updates out (without doing some scripts instead) and for you to have a GUI for the server. I don't use it but I've done that myself+know Linux/bash scripting well enough.

And remember shared != bad.

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