what is the best hosting for laravel 5.4 ?

Use Digital ocean and laravel forge. It is designed to work easily with your git repository.

Check out the digital ocean plans and laravel forge is a bit steep at $15 a month, but If you know what you need server side you can opt to not use it, although it is best. I am currently in the same boat and opted for this and I am quite happy with results.

Not shared, though it can work.

The correct answer really depends on current and future plans. How you want things set you and what content you're delivering. Another thing is expected traffic.

Biggest thing imo is content and budget. Your site just has basically static pages? Streaming? Lots of up and downloads?

Digital ocean and forge are a great start. But I always suggest the 2gb memory plan to start if you have the db on the server also. Huge difference in performance over the smaller droplets, more so with MySQL as a db.

Another option is aws, but be careful cost can run high. Google cloud is another option if you need scaling and that type of performance.

unfortunately no right or wrong but definitely depends on requirements

what about bluehost hosting is it good for laravel ?

If you're not worried about deploying with Forge then you could do a lot worse than Heroku.

Was just wondering about Laravel (5.4) hosting myself. Are there any auto-scaling solutions out there? We need to limit the sysadmin required to deploy and run to the bare minimum if possible :) Thanks.

Though it's been answered many times before, a host that meets laravel requirements. And your memory requirements. That's it just that simple.

i use forge with aws and digital ocean. the time i save with server management using laravel forge is worth the monthly cost. aws can be cheaper than digital ocean if you get a prepaid reserved instance but make sure you won't outgrow it. i've messed around trying to save money doing different things but at the end of the day, the amount of work, issues, configurations, etc... not worth the amount i'm supposedly "saving". i now just focus on development and less on deployment and server management. not to say it does it automatically, but it takes less time and effort in my situation.

Use digital ocean, by registering using this link https://m.do.co/c/e5324212c9fa you can get $10 credit.