Laravelhosting.

Laravel needs more from a host than plain PHP does. Queue workers have to run in the background, the scheduler has to fire artisan tasks every minute, sessions and caches want Redis, and deployments are not finished until migrations have run. On DockHosting those are platform features, not server chores: composer install, artisan migrate, config:cache, a managed queue worker, and schedule:run all happen as part of the deploy, and every app gets automatic HTTPS and a live URL.

Compared with shared hosting, the difference is concrete. Shared plans give you PHP-FPM and nothing else - no supervisor process for queue:work, no place to run schedule:run, and no Redis, so Horizon and rate-limited APIs fall back to slow file-based drivers. On a self-managed VPS or with a control panel like Forge or Ploi you get those capabilities but own the server: Nginx configuration, security patches, TLS renewals, and a second bill for the underlying machine.

Managed WordPress-style Laravel hosts typically charge per site and start well above ten dollars a month. DockHosting keeps the same managed behaviour - tuned PHP-FPM, managed MySQL or PostgreSQL, Redis, daily database backups on paid plans, private networking - on a flat price: the Free plan is genuinely usable for a portfolio or small API, and Hobby at $4/mo keeps an app always-on with its own domain (Pro, at $9/mo, adds five custom domains and six databases).

Deploying is the same as every other stack here: push to Git or run dock deploy, and we detect the project from the artisan file, install dependencies from composer.json, run your migrations, and switch traffic to the new release with zero downtime. Environment variables live in the dashboard, databases attach with one click, and dock db sql runs a query against your database straight from the terminal.