Ask HN: Cheapest solution for hosting a Laravel app?

1 points by stefanos82 4y ago ↗ HN

I'm currently having fun with Laravel (learning it at the moment), but I would like to test its powers live with various demos I plan to implement.

What is the cheapest solution you can suggest, that is not AWS?

I never understood how AWS work to be honest with you and hearing or reading all these scary stories with overcharging gives me nightmares, just by thinking about it...

Any suggestions please?

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smt88 4y ago ↗

You can have easy or cheap, but you can't have both. Hetzner, Linode, and Digital Ocean are cheap, but you'll have to learn how to set up a server.

You may have a better experience with AWS AppDeploy or Elastic Beanstalk, which can be very cheap (all free tier).

Heroku is probably the easiest, but it's extremely expensive if you need anything beyond the free tier.

stefanos82 4y ago ↗

Yeah, I have experience with VPS in general; I guess it should be the preferred route to follow in my case.

Thank you @smt88 +1