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EmilMoe's avatar
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Webhosts ready for Laravel

I promised a client to give different options for hosting their Laravel solution. One is that I manage it on a DigitalOcean droplet but as I need to spend about an hour a month on this, I will charge them more than a webhost might take.

So I'm looking for some alternative options I can recommend. It must be webhosts meaning upload and support for Laravels public folder, but not VPS or server management and not Forge as that would still give me a workload. Preferably git support, but not required. I can do FTP

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andremellow's avatar

Try hostgator.com

You can use composer, git and access via ssh.

The configuration is really easy if you use a subdomain.

Just set the subdomain folder to your public app folder.

They also support php 7.

Let me know if you need help

EmilMoe's avatar
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Thanks @andremellow, the crucial question is, do I need to keep the server up to date or is that maintained?

I can see they have VPS, but that's not what I'm looking for. I can get that at DO.

SaeedPrez's avatar

Depends really where the client and visitors are located.. But I think basically any web host that gives you access to the folder containing the public folder would do.. so perhaps ask a few local web hosts about their folder structure..

Also if you want PHP 5 or 7 obviously.

EmilMoe's avatar
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PHP5 or 7 is indifferent. The client is located in Denmark so preferably in Europe, but they don't have heavy traffic at all.

SaeedPrez's avatar

I host a few sites on CitySites (.se since I'm in Sweden), their folder structure is..

domain.com
    |- public_html
    |- data
    |- logs
example.com
    |- public_html
    |- data
    |- logs

Their support is pretty good, phone, chat & email.. Usually get help relatively fast when I need it.

EventFellows's avatar

I use fortrabbit (located in Berlin/ Germany, servers are AWS in Ireland or US)

Public folder access is not possible as far as I know, but they seem to have a great alternative using AWS S3 space that you can easily access with different tools.

URL: https://www.fortrabbit.com/

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andremellow's avatar

@EmilMoe, you can use the default plan. You don't need a VPS. Of course it will depend of the app usage.

I have one Laravel application running in the small plan, and doing good.

EmilMoe's avatar
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Thanks for the feedback! I have also consulted some friends on Facebook and ended up with http://enavn.dk. They explicitly told me they are ready to customize the setup in order to make Laravel work as intended.

kieranjfahy's avatar

Veerotech I've been using this and found it great, git, ssh,

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