The following post is me asking for personal opinions, please keep this in mind.
I currently have a shared hosting plan and a domain purchased through GoDaddy. This shared hosting plan expires in two months and the domain expires in a few years. I was and continue to be extremely happy with how GoDaddy's servers performed, but I want to get some of the community's opinions.
Are there better plans than GoDaddy out there? What company would you guys recommend? There are so many out there now a days, it is tough to understand which is the best.
If you are developing Laravel (or any other modern) apps, I highly recommend using Forge with one of its supported hosts (DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS). I finally made the switch after being with my previous host for well over a decade. I wasn't unhappy with them, and could "kinda sorta" do what I needed to do (install composer, deploy via Git...) but having a system completely tweaked and ready to go out of the box is an amazingly satisfying thing.
I went with DO and am comfortably running several small sites off of a single $5/mo instance. Another $10/mo server is handling a pretty large app, and I couldn't be happier. I am trying to transition my clients in that direction, as well.
GoDaddy has pretty decent DNS, so there is no reason you couldn't keep your registrations there and use a VPS for the hosting.
And just a post script regarding performance: DigitalOcean smokes any shared hosting service I have ever used when it comes to speed and stability. (I assume the same would be true of Linode, AWS, Vultr, etc.) Having access to Redis alone is worth the switch.
