# Hosting

We Strongly suggest you to choose a vps or dedicated server for following reasons

Since Laravel needs access to composer and cPanel hosting providers don't provide access to composer
vps hosting has become very cheap in these days

# Recommended Hosting Providers

I have used 100s of providers and here i am trying to list hosts which are good as per my experience

and there are some branded hosting providers which are expensive and there are some unknown/less-known hosting providers who provides exceptional service and support at less price.

so i will be listing hosts with explanation.

Digital Ocean (opens new window) : Most famous provider in vps industry

Pros:

Good UI
API to maintain VPS
images option
backup service
block storage available incase you need more storage
variety of plans

Cons:

Bit expensive

Note: Click on the link (opens new window) to get $100 in credits to try out the service

Vultr (opens new window):

Pros:

starting plan at $2.5/m
API to maintain VPS
images option
backup service
block storage available incase you need more storage
variety of plans

Cons:

Bit expensive

Note: Click on the link (opens new window) to get $100 in credits to try out the service

Evolution Host (opens new window) : Usually VPSes(lowened) are over-sold but looks like that is not the case with evolution host.

Pros:

Good Hardware
KVM based
Variety of VPS and dedi options
DDOS protected vps
Accepts Crypto Payments (bitcoin etc)

Cons:

Bit expensive

SSD Nodes (opens new window) : After using digiltaocean for mission critial projects for many years.... i took bold step of moving to other hosts and i finally settled with SSDnodes.

personally i prefer their performance series where you get NVMe storage instead of SSD.

Pros:

NVMe storage option
Very affordable price
Good UI dashboard
Multiple locations

Cons:

yearly and 3 year plans are cheap (i.e. higher lock period)
no extra ips
no ipv6 support

ImpactVPS (opens new window) :

For our testing, staging projects.... i wanted to use a service which is more flexible and cheaper.

best thing about ImpactVPS is resource pools...where you can buy a package and create many vpses from from it and create/delete as you need.

Pros:

resource pools
Very affordable price
multiple data-center locations
they offer many ips to use

Cons:

~~OpenVZ 6 based~~ They use openVZ 7 which is docker supported so i can't think of any cons at the moment.

# Maintaing vps

If you are new to server management then don't worry

Laravel forge (opens new window) will take care of common tasks, so you can sleep peacefully

RunCloud (opens new window) is a great alternative for forge and it has much more features than forge, if you are planning to use it for things other than laravel (ex: excellent server side cache plugin for wordpress)

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