Managed Laravel Hosting Built for Developers

Yes. SSH access on every plan gives you the full Artisan CLI, so migrations, cache clearing, queue management, and anything else you’d run locally works the same way here.

Cloudways runs MySQL/MariaDB for Laravel hosting. It’s already set up when your server launches, so there’s no separate database to install or configure before you start building.

Yes, the Black Friday offer applies to Laravel hosting. Create a new account with code BFCM802 by December 4, and your first 2 months are 80% off, up to $200 off per month. The Micro server at $14, the starting price in your title, comes to $2.80 a month.

Managed Laravel hosting is when the host runs the technical side of your app for you; server setup, security, backups, and updates, instead of leaving that work to you.

That’s what Cloudways does specifically with Laravel. When you launch a Laravel app, it sets up the right PHP version and installs Composer automatically, before you’ve configured a single thing.

You get automated backups, free SSL, and caching through Memcached, Varnish, and Redis, all set up for you from the start.

There’s also a dashboard for managing your servers and apps, staging environments for safely testing changes, a Cloudflare add-on for extra speed and security, and around-the-clock support.

Sign up and pick Laravel as your application type when you launch. Cloudways sets up a server with the right PHP version and installs Composer for you.

After that, you deploy your code by connecting a Git repository, provided it supports Git over SSH.

Traffic spikes get absorbed by scaling your existing server up; RAM, CPU, and storage, right from your dashboard. This is called Vertical Scaling, and it keeps you on your current plan and your current app the whole time.

If spikes hit often and without warning, Cloudways Autonomous handles it differently. It adds servers during the spike and removes them once traffic settles.

You connect a repository that supports Git over SSH. From there, every commit you push can go straight to your live application, just as it would with any Git-based deployment setup.

Your code deploys on its own. You push a change to your repository, and the Cloudways API picks it up and deploys it automatically, without anyone needing to log in and trigger it manually.

This works the same way as standard Git deployment, your repository still needs to support Git over SSH.

Yes to both. Queue workers run through Supervisor, which Cloudways configures for you, and from there you manage them through your dashboard without touching the command line.

The scheduler runs on a cron job Cloudways sets up automatically. If you’re configuring scheduled tasks yourself, set your timezone explicitly rather than relying on the server’s default, that’s a common reason jobs run at the wrong time.

Yes, both are available. Composer gets installed automatically the moment you launch a Laravel app, and SSH access is there from day one, so you can manage dependencies and work on your server the same way you would on your own machine.

You manage it the same way you would anywhere else, by editing the .env file directly over SSH. Cloudways doesn’t touch it or change anything in it on its own.

Yes, Envoyer runs on Cloudways for zero-downtime deployment, the same tool you may already use elsewhere, just pointed at your Cloudways server instead.

No. Your server cost is already built into your plan’s price, so your monthly invoice is the only one you’ll see.

Every plan comes with 24/7 live chat, and a ticketing system handles anything that needs more back-and-forth. Need faster turnaround? Advanced and Premium support add-ons put your tickets ahead of the line.

Security comes from a platform-wide firewall, patches applied as soon as they’re released, and backups stored offsite automatically.

SSL follows the same pattern. Every app gets a free Let’s Encrypt certificate you can turn on with one click, or you can bring your own if you’ve already got one.

Cloudways supports PHP 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.3, and 8.4 for Laravel, and switching between them is just a few clicks in your dashboard, nothing close to rebuilding a server.