i am hosting my website on cpanel and i cant run composer update

ok?

best you can hope for with shared hosting is to prepare all the files locally and then just upload them (complete with vendor folder) onto the remote server.

so it is worth to get a private hosting?

No if just simple website. Anyhow, you have to justify yourself, you know your own cost and profit better than anyone here…

@jlrdw its not that, every other command works fine. composer update just gets terminated

Yeah I deleted answer it's a timeout issue because it takes so long.

But just uploading with FTP periodically should be fine like mention above.

Really you should only need to update just your code periodically and just everything including vendor maybe every 6 to 8 months.

Im using a PDF package for laravel and it's not working, does it have anything to do with me not updating composer?

Most likely yes. You should check the requirements and check if you shared server has it.

Use can create a php file in public with this content and call in the browser

<?php 
phpinfo();

I did check the requirements. In the cpanel I made the settings max and it still crashed, I'm just going to download the files in my local machine and update them there

And if the correct php version is on shared, you will need to get everything working in local, then and only then ftp up your app.

Use phpmyadmin to import the database.

Change settings as needed for production in .env.

Main laravel should be one level higher than public_html

see http://novate.co.uk/deploy-laravel-5-on-shared-hosting-from-heart-internet/

and

https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/next-issue-fonts-and-images-arent-visible

Would it work with php composer.phar? - after you downloaded and added the phar to your laravel root for instance...

I used it successfully long time ago on someones shared host without composer.

https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#globally

I'm not sure I understand what you mean, do I install a package?

@nikankad an actual executable. phar = php archive and the composer bin is inside. https://getcomposer.org/composer.phar

If you upload that phar to your laravel root, cd into it and then run php composer.phar update