In the recent Laracon conference, Taylor announced Laravel Cloud to the laravel developers, his vision was to get a laravel application from local to production within a minute and frankly after watching the demo in the conference, it was definitely fast.
After the release of Laravel Cloud, we won't have to worry anything about servers, AWS, database & queue management, it all will be done with the laravel cloud and staging your laravel application for your clients to see is going to be much more easier and faster (at least for me).
They really did cover all the things you would need and support for the whole laravel ecosystem, including seem-less database management (no need to worry about the connection, it's automated), queue management (add any type of daemons very easily), hibernation to pay only when the app is up, and the prices are just way low then you would pay to a VPS. I mean, It costs around $6 to purchase a very basic VPS just to show your client the website and waste a lot of time just hosting it and keeping it updated, with Laravel Cloud you will be paying 1 cent per hour and only when it's up and you are using it (No paying when no one is using the site), I mean that's definitely a game changer, not only the price but the easiness to manage it.
Read More what's included and the pricing on this blog post: https://laraveleco.com/what-is-laravel-cloud/
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You can get a vps for 3-4 € including Vat or 0,6c per hour. Another alternative would be managed plesk hosting starting at 90 ct a month. If you want NodeJS and Ruby additionally to PHP, you can get it starting at 3,80 €. This would also include 250 GB SSD storage and 6 GB RAM or for 5 Euro you get 8 GB RAM and 500 GB SSD storage. Obviously plesk comes with a managed MySQL Server as well. All managed hosting include unlimited traffic.
I would say, most developers don't need more than 8 GB RAM. That's more than plenty.