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umefarooq's avatar

Looking for laravel friendly hosting, also easy migration of project from old hosting provider

Hi May be this question is already asked i searched in forum but found helpful result, i am looking for good hosting for laravel and codeigntier, as my current shared hosting is going to expire i want to move my hosting to some laravel friendly hosting easy to manage and deploy laravel project, on my shared hosting i have some CI base demo project for clients which i also want to move to new hosting,

So

  1. Laravel friendly hosting,
  2. Easy server to Server project migration
  3. Easy Mysql database migration
  4. Cost effective too.
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angelvargas's avatar

You could have various options on the market. Here a few ones:

https://www.linode.com/pricing - Very good and realible

http://aws.amazon.com/ - A great cloud platform with a lot of free stuff to start a serious Web application.

https://envoyer.io/ - Great for testing and it's very easy to deploy PHP code here. I'm using it for test environments.

https://www.openshift.com/ - Another amazing PaaS platform for deploy large scale projects. Have free stuff as well.

https://forge.laravel.com/ - by Laravel... no words here.

I hope this will help.

Regards,

umefarooq's avatar

i am little bit confused about envoyer and forge are these hosting services or these services to handle hosting providers like linode and digital ocean anybody who can clear it.

dberry's avatar

Envoyer isn't for hosting, it's a deployment tool...

Forge however, will setup your servers for you on the provider of your choice (Digital Ocean, RackSpace, etc...) so that you don't have to worry about deploying a new server. It is still up to you to manage the server (updates, etc...)

I like using forge to deploy new servers, it's quick and easy and for the $10 a month it saves me way more than that in time. but, you still do have that $10/mo price tag, which really isn't much.

I use forge and digital ocean and rackspace.

erozas's avatar

I've been using Digital Ocean + Forge and so far the experience has been flawless. If you're wondering what Digital Ocean and Forge are, DO rents you an instance of a VM thats hosted on the cloud. You can install Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora etc.

The thing is, once that instance (they call it droplet) is created you will have to configure almost everything as it's a fairly standard Linux installation. If you want to host a Laravel app you will have to take care of installing and configuring nginx, MySQL, PHP, Redis, Postgres etc.

Forge does that for you, I like to think about it as a cloud hosted instance of Homestead. It also gives you the advantage of deploying via Git so you don't have to worry about syncing via FTP or anything like that.

Forge costs 10 bucks as well as DigitalOcean but I think that it pays itself, otherwise you could use some bash scripts that emulate what Forge does to configure your Digital Ocean instance.

umefarooq's avatar

@Ozan thanks for the offer, @erozas now my question is regarding forge as i understand it just admin panel to manage digital ocean or linod servers please correct me if i am mistaken, if you are keeping them both like (forge and digital ocean) for 1 year means your are paying 20$ per month which will increase your hosting expenses, or we can cancel the forge at anytime once the project is deployed and customer is happy.

erozas's avatar

@umefarooq no, you can't cancel Forge as I understand, the only way to do that would be if you configure everything on your Digital Ocean VM by yourself which I guess it's not that difficult, however you need to do a lot of things and its worse if you need to deploy using Git. Also, you can deploy lots of projects with a Forge account so it's price ends up being very much justified in my opinion.

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