Over time, Laravel has become increasingly popular due to its simplicity of code and standardization of functions that make creating websites and web apps very easy. This PHP framework grew in popularity rapidly in recent years, and many developers adopted it as their favorite working environment for a streamlined development process.
At the end of the coding stage of a website, you will immediately need a hosting optimized for Laravel, and that is what we created with a lot of dedication at WNPower. A careful ecosystem, hosted in the cloud, with security backups, shielding against threats and many tools is what you will find if you decide to choose WNPower as the home for your website or application made in Laravel.
What is Laravel in programming?
Laravel is an open source PHP framework that offers a set of tools and resources for creating websites and applications. It has a comprehensive ecosystem that combines built-in features and a variety of compatible packages and extensions.
Laravel describes itself as a web application framework with an expressive and elegant syntax. At the same time, Laravel has useful built-in features such as Artisan CLI command line interface, native authentication and model-view-controller (MVC) architecture making this framework easy to use, which quickly impacted its popularity.
Did you know that Laravel has more than 75,000+ stars on GitHub and has even become a highly commanded skill in the web development job market?
What is Laravel used for?
As we already mentioned, Laravel is an easy-to-use web development environment that will help you create PHP-based websites and web apps.
Before creating a web application or a website, you will have to make a fundamental decision about what technology or framework you are going to use. This is one of the most complicated parts of the web development process if you are thinking about a project at scale.
To create something simple, like a store or a portfolio, you can rely on codeless website building solutions like WordPress. But if you’re looking to create something more advanced, a no-code solution may fall short. Instead, you should choose a framework and start writing code in it to develop your project. Laravel is a good choice as an open source, easy-to-use environment for building modern websites and web applications at scale.
Laravel in frontend or Laravel in backend?
Laravel is backend, but it also has some frontend issues, such as frontend style building tools like validation systems, dynamic queries and pagination, allowing developers to focus on other things in the code when it comes to working on something like that.
What hosting to use to host a website or web app in Laravel
Most Laravel website and app developers choose to host their Laravel websites and apps on a bare metal virtual server (VPS), ensuring full control of the environment and the freedom to deploy their apps without the restrictions of shared hosting, customize their services and manage their applications themselves. Perhaps this is the best option, but let us continue for a few lines.
At the beginning, things will go smoothly and work perfectly, but then, when the problems start in the production stage, which will begin to involve server issues, you will not only have to support the application, but you will also have to become an advanced sysadmin with all the effort and time that it entails, to the point that you might feel like you shot yourself in the foot by not selecting the right hosting for your Laravel site or application.
Another option is to purchase a VPS server managed by the provider to take care of the Laravel app only. Although this way you will be avoiding the responsibility of maintaining the server, a VPS is still a virtualized server inside a physical server, with all the problems related to this that are the order of the day.
The option that remains is to host the site or app in the cloud like AWS, or Google Cloud, but you would need not only the knowledge and dedication to build an architecture according to your project, but also to assume the responsibility of maintenance as in a VPS. And if you want someone else to manage it for you, it could become expensive.
Why to choose Laravel hosting from WNPower
The main answer to this question is: because we love the cloud and we keep things simple. Instead of offering you a VPS with an operating system, or a managed cloud option that can cost you any amount of money, we stopped to listen to the developer communities, and leveraging our partnership with Amazon AWS, we created a neat, 100% managed environment that is as easy to use as shared hosting, but contains the power and level of customization of having your own VPS server; at the regular price of one. Plus, with exclusive tools and automatic migrator that you won’t find in other hosting or cloud providers.
Servers on Amazon AWS
To ensure the performance and scalability of all our clients’ projects, we base our infrastructure on Amazon AWS cloud servers with agreements in multiple locations, which provides a plus point compared to other web hosting options. In addition, we use optimized and orchestrated containers for each of the websites we host, so that each client gets its own resources isolated from the rest.
This way, the use of the processor and memory resources of our cloud hosting nodes becomes more optimal, and therefore, results in more stable services and happier customers.
Other providers, will host your website on physical servers, which are prone to hardware problems, therefore, translating into offline time when an event occurs with a server or the data center.
We use cPanel control panel
We are a certified partner of cPanel: the best web hosting control panel in the world. And we do it for one reason only, and that’s so you can manage it from a friendly and secure interface, with hundreds of software engineers behind its development, so you can achieve everything you need to do on your web site, centralized from one place.
cPanel is the most widely used panel worldwide, with leading hosting service providers adopting it as their administration interface. As a strawberry on your dessert, you will find tools that no other hosting provider has on earth. Providers that don’t use cPanel complicate your existence.
Laravel optimized hosting
WNPower’s Laravel hosting is 100% designed to run this environment and is also compatible with other apps. At the same time, every resource is calculated to give you the best experience. As you know, you can install WordPress and hundreds of apps on any ordinary hosting, but here we take care of thinking and assembling a high-performance architecture from the base server we will use, ultra-fast storage, and thousands of configurations that we add very deep, that make your website run at rocket speed. It doesn’t matter if you have a modest institutional site, a blog, an ecommerce cart or a news site. We will work to make it run fast and stable.
Exclusive tools on all plans
For us, all our users are VIP. From the smallest plan to the largest site we are hosting at the moment. That’s why all of our exclusive tools are available on all of our hosting plans. No matter what your subscription is: we want to make managing your Laravel website enjoyable, easy, and you don’t have to spend too much time on its maintenance.
The truth is also that we are constantly adding new ones, which we create based on suggestions, feedback and ideas that come from the webmaster communities we participate in around the world. WNPower users also make their contribution in our WNPower Community, where everyone can suggest new features and users can vote for them so that we can develop them.
Free SSL certificate for your Laravel website or app
At WNPower we have an agreement with the main SSL certificate issuers, so you won’t have to pay to buy one for your Laravel website or app. When you activate your Laravel hosting plan, it is already included and is automatically installed when you delegate it to our DNS servers.
Amazon S3 backups and advanced security
Backup and security is also a key point in our services. That’s why we generate daily backups with ample retention in case you want to roll back your website to a previous restore point. If you are updating your app or website and it breaks, or you delete a key file or content unintentionally, you can turn to our unique restore system to go back to the time when everything was working. WNPower’s backup is simply great, as it will allow you to restore a file, a database, a deleted email account, or a folder with all its contents in 1 click.
Phenomenal support ready to help you
At WNPower we know how important it is to be there when you need us, and we strive to make website owners more relaxed, more productive, and feel supported and happy to have found us. We form a formidable support team composed of fast, knowledgeable and attentive people above all.
You will have a complete help center with hundreds of articles, guides and instructions for every task you need to do about your hosting, a community to chat with our staff and other users, and a help desk ready to give you a hand all the time and in your language. If you are one of those users who don’t have a lot of time, then you can download our app on your smartphone to manage everything from there. Take your hosting everywhere!
Developer friendly environment
Advanced developers love working with WNPower. If you are one of the most knowledgeable and you are reading this, you will be able to access via SSH and Git connection in all our plans. It would be very inconvenient if you had to upgrade to a larger plan just to get these conveniences to work with.
Development tools and tricks such as our MySQL Toolbox and MySQL Monitoring panel will be great for debugging and testing without putting your main site at risk.
Automatic Migrator
No knowledge or time to move your website and your subscription runs out soon? Our automatic migrator PowerTransfer will do it for you. PowerTransfer does the migration of your hosting for free without waiting, copying and pasting some data from your current server. In addition, it has several methods for you to do it and help from our staff so you can be in your new home at WNPower as soon as possible.
Final conclusion
Laravel is an environment for building applications and websites that facilitates the work of developers based on PHP. Laravel can be used to create very modest web pages as well as to build large ecommerce websites or quite complex news sites, without the need to rely on a content management system such as WordPress.
Hosting and maintaining a website made in Laravel can become a headache if you host it on a VPS server with no support from the provider, and assuming the risks of a virtualized server, which is why at WNPower we created the easiest to use Laravel hosting, hosted in the AWS cloud. More than a web hosting service provider, in WNPower you will find a partner to boost your projects.