Best Laravel Hosting for Apps That Need Real SSH and Queue Support

Laravel's scheduler is designed to be triggered by one cron entry running every minute, which then fans out to whatever scheduled tasks you've defined in code. That's simple in theory, but it requires a host that lets you set arbitrary cron jobs rather than only pre-packaged options in a control panel dropdown. Shared hosting with real cron access handles this fine for scheduled tasks like sending digest emails or cleaning up expired records.

Queue workers are the harder case: a job processing emails, image resizing, or API calls typically needs a long-running process (`php artisan queue:work`) kept alive by something like Supervisor, not a script that gets killed when a web request ends. Shared hosting can sometimes fake this with frequent cron-triggered `queue:work --stop-when-empty` runs for light workloads, but any app with real background job volume is better served by a VPS where you control the process manager directly.

Deployment for Laravel usually means pulling from Git, running Composer, running migrations, and clearing cached config — and doing that repeatedly without downtime matters once the app is in production. SSH access makes it possible to script that sequence yourself or wire up a simple Git-based deploy hook, rather than manually uploading a vendor directory after every change.

Free managed migration also applies if you're moving an existing Laravel app from another host: the team can move your files and database over, though you'll still want to re-run `composer install` and check your .env against the new environment before flipping DNS, since Laravel's configuration is intentionally tied to the server it runs on.