Should I buy a2hosting.com to host Laravel?

If you plan on expanding and doing multiple websites go with something like digitalocean.

Shared hosting is okay for a small hobby website or in my case a small site I did for Humane Society.

And of course the best are the companies that have their own dedicated servers but that's usually reserved for the larger companies.

What does it even mean? I know as little as before.

Sorry I don't understand, What does it even mean? When you say it, what is it? Go to the digital ocean website, they have articles, tutorials, etc.

As far as a2hosting.com, I have no idea. Is it a "shared host"? Meaning like Godaddy, Hostgator, etc?

Edit: Also here is a past post that might help: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/tips/hosting-on-shared-server-best-practice

Sorry, I'm just flustered of getting nowhere after all this time.

I don't know what answer you want.

I suggest digital ocean, but if a2hosting hosting is what you want, that's up to you.

Their site should have some information on what they offer. See if they have pre sales support.

So just give them a call.

Okay I just went to https://www.a2hosting.com/ and they have chat, so start a chat session and ask them to verify they have what you need in a host.

They just call it "Laravel hosting" and I have really no idea what it is. I can't even find any youtube video of anybody using it/tutorial. I have a little idea what I'm really want. They are not saying what are they offering. So it makes me super confused.

You just answered your own question. Don't go using some place that can't even say what they're offering and has no public support. And with a name like that, they could be a reseller. Also, claiming "Laravel hosting" means nothing. Even a crappy windows 2008 server can be setup to run a Laravel site.

@tinfoilman I am on that site now, they do have support and a money back policy.

Hold mouse over vps hosting.

https://www.a2hosting.com/contact#phone bottom of page has phone numbers.

@andyandy just curious, why didn't you just contact them? Either chat or phone.

Sorry, I didn't mean no support from the company. I mean no support from the public because he said he couldn't find any youtube videos or tutorials. I'd stick with a trusted host like Digitalocean considering the price is similar.

I checked out their site and they do seem to provide a legit service, but their page layout reminds me of tried-to-make-a-quick-buck dropshipping site made on Wordpress. Just look at the gigantic 5-star review section, and generic news articles that are all dated in the past month.

@tinfoilman I agree, I suggested Digital also, but the decision is up to @andyandy I had never heard of a2hosting. But If it was me, I would call them to verify what I want to know prior to using them.

@andyandy in hosting we have 3 types

Shared hosting : wish is provider hosting give a small space to host your php project like native php,laravel ..

Vps hosting : they give virtual private server with os Linux, window ,you can do what you want and host php,Js ,anything

Dvs hosting : like vps but more capacity and performance

Now a2hosting is just hosting like others , and I think you can find this 3 type in it I choose the best type for you

Digital Ocean just works seemlessly with services like Laravel Forge. These are all tools that make your Laravel development (and in this case, deployments) ridiculously easy. Why go with some dodgy company such as abcdodgyhosting.com when companies like Digital Ocean have literally thousands of use cases where people don't even question their automated deployments for their Laravel sites?

Looking at A2, I would stay away from them. They charge $3/month just for "cloudflare basic," which translates to CloudFlare's free package if you ever wanted to use them. I've never seen a hosting company charging for something like that.

Honestly, I would never use basic shared-hosting for a Laravel app. It's fine for things like Wordpress, but that's about it. One of the problems you get with a lot of shared hosts is them trying to "force" you into bigger packages. You get a traffic boom, the database gets hit hard and then suddenly your site is suspended for overuse of resources (HINT: nothing is unlimited despite what they say!). The only way you get your site back up is to upgrade to the next higher plan.

Something else that always gets people is manged -vs- unmanaged. Many thing manged means if there's a problem with your software, they will fix it. Nope. They will handle things related to the server going down, but that's pretty much it.

Going with what everyone else said, go with VPS. It will be a little more headache and learning to get setup, but you're also learning something new and in the long run will have much less headaches and save money.

Everyone here is giving you great responses, but they are WAY above your understanding being new to all of this

You're NEW to Laravel and you're NEW to hosting.

You are jumping the gun trying to understand hosting

Just keep learning Laravel with Homestead and get that mastered first.

Then learn about how hosting works, types of hosting (Shared, etc)

Overwise you're just going to burn out