Need more flexibility than shared hosting

[Kemik]

I have had a shared hosting account for over 10 years now with various providers. However, as the internet has continued to grow, I've found myself restricted by shared hosting. For example, I want to be able to easily roll out Laravel, use Tailwind CSS or Vue JS without using their CDN, etc.

I don't get much traffic - it's mainly personal projects - so my actual needs aren't high.

So far I can think of:

• Running a local server (requires investment)
• Running a local virtual machine (only useful for development - not deployment).
• Rent a VPS from someone like LiquidWeb for about $30 per month (expensive).
• Use AWS (not a clue).

Really, what I need is cPanel with some root flexibility. I'm worried if I go for a VPS or AWS I won't have hardened it or will need to constantly maintain the OS updates.

Any suggestions? Is there any easy way around this?

 

[Kemik]

Laravel / Laravel Mix etc work perfectly well on any cPanel environment - you don't need root access to a server for these things. Not all hosts support running a full node app however so worth checking if you do need to do that.

Most providers running Cloudlinux should as it natively supports Node via mod_passenger, although (in our case) we just enable by request currently.

How can I roll out Laravel without Composer access?

 

[Kemik]

Do you have SSH access to the hosting? Lots of hosts offer it, you can run composer on the command line then:

https://www.namecheap.com/support/k.../29/how-to-install-composer-on-shared-servers

Ah great thanks.

How about those packages like Vue and Tailwind which require installation via npm/yarn? Am I better creating a virtual machine locally, doing the development, then uploading the finished product?