Easy PHP & Laravel Hosting in 2026

PHP continues to power a massive portion of the web, and Laravel is its modern workhorse. But deploying PHP today shouldn't involve dragging files over FTP to a cPanel shared host.

The Docker Advantage for PHP

Instead of manually installing PHP extensions, managing Composer dependencies via SSH, and setting up Nginx, you should use Docker. It guarantees your code runs the exact same way on the remote server as it does locally.

A Simple Laravel Dockerfile

Create this at the root of your Laravel project:

FROM php:8.2-fpm

# Install system dependencies
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
    git \
    curl \
    libpng-dev \
    libonig-dev \
    libxml2-dev \
    zip \
    unzip

# Install PHP extensions
RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo_mysql mbstring exif pcntl bcmath gd

COPY --from=composer:latest /usr/bin/composer /usr/bin/composer

WORKDIR /var/www
COPY . .

RUN composer install --optimize-autoloader --no-dev
RUN chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www

EXPOSE 9000
CMD ["php-fpm"]

The PaaS Deployment

By connecting your Laravel GitHub repository to Remoud, our infrastructure ingests the Dockerfile, handles the Composer installation off-server, and deploys a lightweight container instance directly. All logs stream to your browser, and environment variables are instantly changeable.