Laravel recommended host

This question has been asked and answered many times, honest. Many use digital ocean, but there are others.

We would like to use IIS because it allows us to us windows authentication.

You can use Kerberos and/or LDAP Authentification for this in Apache

Are there any drawbacks of using Laravel on IIS?

Windows Servers are usually more expensive and much harder to maintain if you dont have any SysAdmin who really knows what he's doing. Of course this also applies to Unix, but in my experience it is easier to find Linux specialists than Microsoft specialists.

Not to mention the performance / efficiency, even though I do not want to talk so bad about the IIS, I do not know enough about it for that.

There may be cases and software requirements where IIS makes sense, but Laravel isn't one of them in my opinion.

Ok. Thanks Everyone!