Laravel PHP Hosting India 2026 — Shared vs VPS

Laravel is the most popular PHP framework in India for building APIs, SaaS products, and enterprise web applications. Hosting a Laravel app is more complex than hosting a WordPress site — you need the right PHP version, Composer access, and often queue workers and scheduled tasks. Here is the complete guide for Indian developers.

Laravel minimum hosting requirements

• PHP version: Laravel 11 → PHP 8.2+. Laravel 10 → PHP 8.1+
• Extensions: BCMath, Ctype, cURL, DOM, Fileinfo, JSON, Mbstring, OpenSSL, PCRE, PDO, Tokenizer, XML
• Composer: Required for dependency installation
• Database: MySQL 8.0, PostgreSQL 13+, SQLite 3.35+
• Document root: Must point to public/ folder, not project root

Shared hosting for Laravel — what works and what doesn't

HostStack shared hosting runs PHP 8.3 and supports Composer via SSH terminal. You can deploy a basic Laravel app by:

1. Upload your project files via FTP or cPanel File Manager
2. Set document root to public/ via cPanel → Domains → Document Root
3. SSH into your account and run composer install --no-dev
4. Set .env file with database credentials
5. Run php artisan migrate
6. Run php artisan config:cache and php artisan route:cache

What shared hosting cannot do for Laravel

• Queue workers: php artisan queue:work requires a persistent background process — not possible on shared hosting. Use the database driver with cron-based queue:work --once for low-volume queues only.
• WebSockets (Laravel Reverb): Requires a persistent server process — VPS only.
• Redis: Shared hosting does not include Redis. You need a VPS with Redis installed for session caching and queue management.
• Background daemons: Horizon, Octane, and Reverb all require root-level process management via Supervisor.

VPS hosting for Laravel — the right setup

For Laravel apps in production, a HostStack Ryzen KVM VPS (Ubuntu 22.04) is the right environment. Recommended setup:

# Install PHP 8.3 + extensions
apt install php8.3-fpm php8.3-mysql php8.3-mbstring php8.3-xml php8.3-bcmath php8.3-curl php8.3-zip

# Install Composer
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

# Install Nginx
apt install nginx

# Install Supervisor for queue workers
apt install supervisor

Supervisor config for Laravel queue

[program:laravel-worker]
process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
command=php /var/www/yourapp/artisan queue:work database --sleep=3 --tries=3
autostart=true
autorestart=true
numprocs=2
user=www-data

Cron job for Laravel scheduler

# Add to crontab (crontab -e)
* * * * * cd /var/www/yourapp && php artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

Shared hosting vs VPS for Laravel

Requirement	Shared hosting	VPS
Basic Laravel app	Works	Works
Queue workers	Cron workaround only	Full Supervisor support
Redis caching	Not available	Install Redis yourself
WebSockets	Not possible	Full support
Cost (India)	₹149–399/mo	₹849–1,999/mo

Recommended HostStack plans for Laravel

• Simple Laravel CRUD app: Shared hosting Business plan (₹299/mo) — no queues needed
• Laravel + queue workers: Ryzen Shared VPS 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM (₹1,199/mo)
• Laravel + Redis + Horizon: Ryzen VDS 2 dedicated cores / 4 GB (₹1,599/mo)
• Laravel Octane + high traffic: Ryzen VDS 4 cores / 8 GB with PHP-FPM tuning

Frequently asked questions