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Hey, I was just wondering what people use to host their Laravel sites. We currently use Bluehost, due to having some WordPress sites as well, but I feel it's really slow and doesn't perform well.
Are there any hosts that are particularly good for performance that work well with Laravel and potentially WordPress?
Hmm not sure about Wordpress though, however I have deployed a few web-apps on Heroku but I am not sure what your previous experience is, those have been mainly "passion projects" so, nothing for a client yet but if I can do it, anyone can, I would leave this for more capable minds.. having said that, I don't know what your preferences may be but have you tried DigitalOcean? Linode? Both of these seem to have a robust Laravel support.
Thanks for your input! I definitely am looking into Digital Ocean as a possibility, I've heard good things about it.
I personally use hetzner as they are really cheap, and works much like digital ocean droplets. I have both WordPress and laravel sites. But it of course takes a little knowledge to set up the servers (but there are guides). Or you can use ploi to manage the servers for you
I agree with the DigitalOcean suggestions, I've been using them for years to host a ton of different WordPress, Laravel, and vanilla PHP projects. The smallest droplet is $5/mo USD, and is more than enough for a Laravel app with modest traffic and data requirements.
There's also recipes for LEMP/LAMP stacks so you can just create a new droplet, and deploy your app to the /var/www/html directory (I actually think there might be one specific to Laravel now, too).
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