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I provisioned a Hostinger Laravel VPS, ran it through a full server benchmark suite, and pushed Kodee AI support with two real technical questions. One button on the dashboard did not do what its label promised.
I provisioned a Hostinger Laravel VPS, ran it through a full server benchmark suite, and pushed Kodee AI support with two real technical questions. One button on the dashboard did not do what its label promised.
Hostinger sells its Laravel VPS as a pre-installed, AI-managed server built to get a Laravel project live fast. Most of that promise checked out under real testing, strong benchmarks, a capable AI support agent, backups confirmed running on schedule.
One button on the dashboard sent me somewhere I never expected to end up, though, and it is worth knowing about before you click it yourself. Here is the full breakdown.
Hostinger Laravel VPS Hosting
Discover how Hostinger Laravel VPS Hosting provides a flexible environment for deploying Laravel applications with dedicated server resources, full control, scalable performance, and customizable configurations for modern web projects.
Laravel pre-installed automatically on provisioning
Checkout to running server in minutes
Cloudpanel gives full server control access
Kodee inspects and fixes live issues
Weekly backups run and verify automatically
Strong CPU scaling across both cores
Balanced disk read and write speeds
Consistent near-gigabit network across test runs
30-day money-back guarantee on VPS plans
Cons
Malware scanner not installed by default
Manage App button redirects to Laravel Cloud
Tip Manage your Laravel app through Cloudpanel rather than the Manage App button, and check the Security tab if you want the malware scanner actually switched on.
Rating Breakdown
To score Hostinger’s Laravel VPS hosting, I applied HostAdvice’s rating methodology, the same standardized approach used across every review on the site, so scores stay consistent and grounded in real testing rather than marketing claims. Here is how it scored across each parameter.
Kodee checked the live server twice and gave accurate, deploy-ready fixes both times.
Overall
9.1/10
A capable Laravel host with excellent support and benchmarks, held back by one real interface misstep.
Hostinger Laravel VPS Hosting
Explore Hostinger Laravel VPS Hosting for developers who need greater control and performance for Laravel applications. This review covers VPS resources, scalability, security, server management, and overall suitability for PHP-based projects.
Hostinger sells Laravel hosting as one of four KVM VPS tiers, KVM 1 through KVM 8, each scaling CPU cores, RAM, NVMe disk space, and bandwidth together as you move up.
Laravel itself is not a separate purchase, it’s a one-click application layered onto whichever tier you pick during checkout, with Cloudpanel bundled in as the actual control panel for managing the install once it is live.
Billing terms: Plans are paid upfront across 1, 12, or 24-month terms, with the longer terms carrying real discounts off the monthly rate. See the pricing widget below for the full breakdown by tier and term.
Money-back guarantee: VPS plans carry a 30-day guarantee, but the fine print adds a real limit. You can only claim a VPS refund once every 180 days, so a second refund on a separate VPS purchase within that window will not go through. Upgrades to an existing VPS plan are excluded entirely.
Free trial: I did not find a dedicated free trial for Laravel VPS hosting, only the 30-day money-back guarantee. Plan your evaluation time with that limit in mind.
Payment methods: Card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover), PayPal, Google Pay, AliPay in separate China and Hong Kong variants, and Coingate for crypto. Crypto payments fall outside the refund policy entirely, so keep that in mind if the guarantee matters to you.
What is bundled in: Every tier includes a free .cloud domain for the first year, full root access, Git integration, and Cloudpanel at no extra cost, so the sticker price is closer to the real cost than hosts that charge separately for a control panel.
Hostinger’s own guidance suggests KVM 1 is enough for a simple Laravel site, with KVM 8 recommended for heavier, resource-intensive projects.
Worth adding to that from testing, the app-management confusion around the Manage App button, and the malware scanner sitting off by default, apply to every tier equally, so sizing up will not fix either of those. Pick your plan based on CPU and traffic needs, and handle those two specific issues the same way regardless of which tier you land on.
Features
AMD EPYC processors across every tier
NVMe SSD storage on all plans
Git integration for streamlined code deployment
Full root access via SSH
Cloudpanel control panel included by default
AI agent for VPS management tasks
Automatic weekly backups on each plan
1 Gbps network speed per plan
Free .cloud domain for one year
Hostinger Laravel VPS Hosting
See whether Hostinger Laravel VPS Hosting is the right choice for your Laravel projects. With dedicated VPS resources, flexible server configurations, and room to scale, it offers developers a customizable hosting environment for web applications.
A Laravel application lives or dies on the server underneath it just as much as the code itself. Page loads depend on CPU speed to execute PHP, database queries depend on disk I/O, sessions and caching depend on memory, and if the app runs queued jobs or has real visitors, network throughput and sustained load handling matter too.
Laravel itself does not change any of that, it is still PHP running on Linux, so the real test here is the VPS.
I ran a full benchmark suite against the server, covering CPU, memory, disk, network, and a sustained stress pass, to see what this plan actually delivers and what that translates to for a real application.
The instance I tested was the KVM 2 plan, the one I picked during checkout:
CPU: 2 vCPUs, carved from a host running an AMD EPYC 9354P processor
RAM: 7.8GB usable of the 8GB allocated, plus 2GB of swap
Disk: 96GB usable of the 100GB NVMe allocation
OS: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, kernel 6.8.0-137-generic
Before getting into the numbers, it’s good to know Hostinger’s Laravel VPS lineup runs the same four tiers as the rest of its VPS range, KVM 1 through KVM 8, and KVM 2 sits second from the bottom, one step up from the cheapest option and well below the KVM 4 and KVM 8 tiers built for heavier, multi-application workloads.
What follows reflects a small-to-mid-sized Laravel project, a single application serving a real but modest amount of traffic, not a large platform running several services on one box.
1. CPU Performance
Single-thread: 1,624.55 events per second, average latency 0.61ms, 95th percentile 0.64ms
Multi-thread, 2 threads: 2,864.02 events per second, average latency 0.70ms, 95th percentile 1.10ms
Thread fairness standard deviation: 182.50 on an average of 14,321.5 events per thread
Here is what that single-thread number actually means in practice. A typical Laravel request, rendering a Blade view, running a handful of Eloquent queries, checking a session, spends most of its time on one CPU core doing PHP work rather than spreading across multiple cores at once.
At 0.61ms average latency per computational event in this test, the CPU is not the part of the stack that is going to make a page feel slow.
The gap between average latency and the 95th percentile is small too, 0.61ms versus 0.64ms, which means performance stayed consistent rather than the occasional request taking a lot longer than the rest, a pattern that would show up as random slow page loads for real visitors.
The multi-thread result is the more useful number for understanding concurrency. Going from one thread to two nearly doubled throughput, about 88 percent scaling efficiency, which means this VPS is not losing much capacity to overhead or to other tenants competing for the same physical cores
In practical terms, PHP-FPM running with two worker processes on this plan can handle roughly twice the request volume of a single-threaded scenario before the CPU becomes the bottleneck, rather than something less than double, which is what you would see if the two vCPUs were fighting each other for cycles.
The thread fairness figure, about 1.3 percent variance between the two threads, confirms that both cores did a roughly equal share of the work rather than one core carrying the load while the other idled. For a real site, that means requests get distributed evenly across PHP-FPM workers instead of piling up behind whichever worker happens to be busy.
2. Memory Speed
Sequential Write: 5,865.22 MiB/sec
Sequential Read: 7,155.43 MiB/sec
Memory speed matters for Laravel in a way that is easy to overlook. Every OPcache lookup, every session read, every array or collection your application builds while handling a request lives in RAM, and if a caching layer like Redis is also running on the same box, it is competing for that same memory bandwidth.
At roughly 5.9 GiB per second write and 7.2 GiB per second read, this VPS can move data in and out of memory fast enough that memory operations are very unlikely to be what slows a request down, the bottleneck for a typical Laravel app is almost always going to be disk or network before it is RAM speed.
Where memory does matter more directly is capacity rather than speed. With 7.8GB usable and 2GB of swap behind it, this plan can comfortably run PHP-FPM, MySQL or PostgreSQL, and a small Redis instance side by side for a single application, but it does not leave much room if you are running several sites on the same VPS or a database with a large working set.
The swap is a safety net for a brief memory spike, not a substitute for RAM if the application is truly undersized for this plan.
3. Disk I/O
Sequential Write: 740 MiB/s (776 MB/s), 740 IOPS
Sequential Read: 749 MiB/s (785 MB/s), 748 IOPS
Random 4K mixed read/write: roughly 9,400 IOPS in each direction, about 36.7 MiB/s throughput per direction
Sequential speed is the number that matters for large, one-shot operations, restoring a database backup, extracting an uploaded archive, writing a large log file.
At around 740 to 750 MiB/s in both directions, and with read and write landing within two percent of each other, this disk does not have the lopsided weakness in one direction that shows up on some cloud storage, where reads are fast but writes lag well behind.
Random 4K performance is the number that actually predicts how a Laravel app will feel to use day to day, because a database does not read and write in large sequential chunks, it reads and writes small, scattered blocks scattered across the disk as it looks up rows, updates indexes, and writes to its transaction log.
Just over 9,000 IOPS in each direction translates to roughly 9,000 small database operations per second before disk I/O becomes the limiting factor.
A typical Laravel page load might trigger somewhere between a handful and a few dozen queries depending on how the app is built, which means this disk has room for a meaningful number of concurrent users hitting the database at once before queries start queuing up waiting on disk access.
It would take a distinctly write-heavy workload, high-volume logging, a busy queue table, frequent cache writes to disk, to push this particular ceiling.
4. Network Speed
Run 1: Download 990.06 Mbps, Upload 910.87 Mbps, idle latency 0.31ms, 0% packet loss
Run 2: Download 985.24 Mbps, Upload 947.82 Mbps, idle latency 0.27ms, 0% packet loss
Both runs landed against a server in Phoenix, Arizona, matching the United States location I selected during checkout, close to a full gigabit in both directions with zero packet loss on either attempt.
For a Laravel app, this number matters most for two things, how fast the server can serve assets and API responses to visitors, and if the app calls external APIs or pulls data from other services, how fast those outbound calls complete.
Near-gigabit throughput means bandwidth is not going to be the constraint for a typical web application, you would need a very high volume of large file transfers, video, big downloads, bulk exports, before this becomes the limiting factor rather than CPU or disk.
The near-identical results across two separate runs, taken minutes apart, also rule out a lucky one-off result, this is what the connection does consistently rather than a number that happened to spike once.
5. Stress Test
I ran CPU, memory, and disk stressors for 180 seconds each to see how the server holds up under sustained load rather than a quick burst:
CPU stress, 2 workers: 540,042 bogo ops, 0 failures
Disk stress, 2 workers: 2,655,058 bogo ops, 0 failures
The individual bogo ops numbers matter less here than what did not happen.
Zero failed workers and zero untrustworthy metrics across all three tests, run back to back for three full minutes each, means the server kept CPU, memory, and disk all under simultaneous pressure without crashing, throttling into an unreliable state, or returning results the benchmark itself flagged as suspect. That is the closest this kind of testing gets to simulating a real traffic spike, several resources maxed out
t once, and it is the result that matters most for anyone worried about their site falling over during a busy period rather than performing well only in isolated, one-at-a-time tests.
Overall Verdict on Performance
The KVM 2 plan performs well for what it is, a small-to-mid-tier VPS rather than a flagship one. In practical terms, this server has enough single-thread CPU speed and enough random disk IOPS to keep a typical Laravel page load fast, enough network throughput that bandwidth will not be the bottleneck for a normal web application, and it held together with zero failures under three simultaneous stress tests.
None of that should be read as a verdict on Hostinger’s Laravel hosting as a whole, since this is one tier out of four.
A smaller personal project or a low-traffic app could comfortably run on the cheaper KVM 1 plan, while a Laravel application serving real production traffic, running scheduled jobs, queue workers, and a database all at once, would be wise to look at KVM 4 or KVM 8 rather than treating these KVM 2 numbers as the ceiling. Pick based on what the app actually needs to run, not just the entry price on the plan page.
Hostinger Laravel VPS Hosting
Run Laravel applications on a powerful virtual server with Hostinger Laravel VPS Hosting. This review examines its performance, resource flexibility, security options, server control, and overall value for developers and growing websites.
I tested Hostinger’s Laravel VPS from checkout through opening the actual management tools that come with it.
That covered picking a plan and server location, creating an account, paying, and then working out how to actually manage a Laravel deployment once the server was live. What follows is what that process was actually like, including a moment where the interface sent me somewhere I did not expect to go.
1. Registration
I started on the Laravel VPS landing page, which leads with three claims worth remembering going in:
Free automatic weekly backups
AI-managed VPS
Auto malware scanner
I picked the KVM 2 plan, a reasonable middle ground for a single Laravel application rather than a resource-heavy build, and moved into the cart.
From there, the cart page put everything on one screen:
Billing period: 1, 12, or 24 months, savings shown per option
Server location: regions grouped by continent, latency estimate next to each
App marketplace: over a thousand one-click OS, panel, and application options
I went with 24 months for the lower rate, then spent more time than usual on server location.
United Kingdom came back with the best latency on the list, but I scrolled through the rest of the regions to compare anyway. North America showed a solid result for the United States, and Asia’s fastest option, Malaysia, lagged well behind both.
Since the site I had in mind would draw a mostly American audience, I picked the United States over the technically faster United Kingdom option.
That is worth flagging for any reader comparing regions on this page. Best latency to you, sitting in front of your own laptop, is not the number that matters. It’s latency to the people who will actually visit the site, so pick based on your audience, not your own test results.
Next, I scrolled into the application marketplace, where Laravel was already selected, the same one-click setup pattern Hostinger uses across its whole app catalog. Nothing needed changing there, so I moved straight to checkout.
I was already logged into an existing Hostinger account, so registration itself took one click.
After that, the billing address and payment screen offered:
Card, covering Visa, Mastercard, Amex, and Discover
PayPal
Google Pay
AliPay, in separate China and Hong Kong variants
Coingate, for crypto payment
All on one page, no separate redirect. I submitted payment, got a confirmation email right away, and landed back in hPanel with the new server already listed as running.
What stood out here is how much choice Hostinger gives at checkout without making any of it mandatory.
The location comparison in particular is worth taking seriously rather than clicking past, since the plan page’s default recommendation will not always match who is actually going to be using the server.
2. Dashboard/Client Area
Once payment cleared, hPanel opened on its home screen, the same central account panel that handles domains, email, the website builder, and VPS management from one place.
It greeted me by name with an AI prompt bar, a row of shortcut buttons, a to-do checklist, and a running list of every website and server on the account further down the page.
Next, I scrolled to the VPS table, where the new server sat already marked Running, with its hostname, IP address, plan, and expiration date visible without opening anything.
I clicked Manage to move into the server-specific panel.
Landing on the account home page immediately after payment, with the server already provisioned and listed, is the part of this flow that consistently works well.
There is no separate waiting screen and no digging through menus to find what you just bought.
3. Laravel and Server Management
Clicking Manage opened the VPS Overview page, and this is where the real differences start to show.
Right at the top sat an app card labeled Laravel with a Manage App button, confirming Laravel was installed automatically during provisioning.
Directly below it sat a second card I had not expected:
Cloudpanel, built on Ubuntu 24.04
Admin username shown in plain text
Password reset link
Its own Manage panel button, separate from the Laravel card above it
That second card matters more than it looks. Cloudpanel is a full server control panel bundled in alongside Laravel, not a one-off setup wizard, and it turned out to be the actual surface for managing files, sites, and the server day to day.
Scrolling past both cards, the underlying Ubuntu 24.04 instance sat below, marked Running, with reboot and terminal controls and root SSH details laid out the same way as every other VPS on this account.
Since this server had just been provisioned, the resource graphs were not populated yet, hPanel showed a message asking me to check back in about 30 minutes for usage data, an honest way to handle a server that actually has no traffic history yet rather than showing empty charts as if they meant something.
Further down, I found:
SSH key management
Firewall rules
Backup snapshots
Malware scanner: Not installed
That last line is the first real gap. The malware scanner reads Not installed, sitting directly under a plan page that lists an automatic malware scanner as one of three headline features for this exact product. Whatever the marketing promises, it is not switched on by default on the server you actually receive.
Curious whether the other headline claim held up better, I checked Backups & Monitoring next. The Latest Actions log showed:
A recreate action logged the same day
Weekly backup_create entries, each marked Success, stretching back over a month
That claim checked out against what the account’s own logs showed, a real contrast to the malware scanner sitting unactivated one section away.
It’s worth knowing that Hostinger delivers on some of its stated features by default and leaves others for you to switch on yourself, and the only way to tell which is which is to go looking, since the plan page treats them as equally included.
Then I went back to the Laravel app card and clicked Manage App, expecting it to open some kind of Laravel-specific setup or file management screen the way Cloudpanel’s button did.
Instead, it opened a page titled “Let’s get started,” linking out to Laravel’s own documentation and Laracasts video tutorials, with a single button underneath reading Deploy now.
I clicked it anyway to see where it led, and it took me to laravel.com/cloud, the sign-up page for Laravel Cloud.
Here is the distinction worth being precise about.
Laravel Cloud is not a Hostinger product and has nothing to do with the VPS I had just paid for. It’s a separate, fully managed hosting platform built and sold directly by the Laravel team, competing in the same space as a service like Vercel or Heroku, with its own account system, its own pricing, and its own free usage credit.
Signing up there would mean paying Laravel, on top of whatever you already paid Hostinger, to host your application somewhere else entirely.
As for why Manage App points there, I checked the official knowledge base article Kodee itself cited when I asked, “How to use the Laravel VPS template at Hostinger.” That article walks through accessing CloudPanel at your VPS IP on port 8443, editing the .env file, and running Composer and Artisan commands over SSH.
It never mentions the Manage App button, and it never mentions Laravel Cloud at all. So this is not a case of the explanation existing somewhere I had not looked.
Hostinger’s own official walkthrough for this exact template does not acknowledge that button exists, and Kodee, when I asked directly, confirmed Manage App does not manage the VPS and warned that signing up for Laravel Cloud from there would mean a second, separate bill.
Anyone who clicks Manage App expecting to manage their app ends up looking at a sign-up page for a different paid product instead, with no documentation anywhere pointing that out ahead of time.
The button that actually gets you there sits one card down. Manage panel, on the Cloudpanel card.
Clicking it opens a login screen asking for a username and password, and this is where it is worth being specific, since the panel gives no hints once you are on that screen.
The username is admin, and the password is the server password Hostinger emailed when the VPS was first provisioned, not your Hostinger account password.
If that email is long gone, the Reset link sitting right next to the password field on the Cloudpanel card generates a new one without needing to dig through your inbox.
Once logged in, Cloudpanel opens on a Sites list, with the VPS hostname already configured as a live site, PHP set as the app type, and a Manage link next to it.
Opening that site’s settings turned up a full row of tabs, Settings, Vhost, Databases, Varnish Cache, SSL/TLS, Security, SSH/FTP, File Manager, Cron Jobs, and Logs.
That is a real, thorough control panel, and it is worth calling out that a Cron Jobs tab sits right there in the same interface. Kodee walked me through adding the scheduler’s cron entry by hand over SSH, which works fine, but Cloudpanel has a point-and-click way to do the same thing without touching a terminal at all, and neither Kodee nor the knowledge base article mentioned it as an option.
With that end out of the way, the left-hand menu on the server management page is where the real controls live.
Here is what it offers:
Overview: the summary page itself, with the Laravel and Cloudpanel app cards, resource usage, and quick links to everything below
Settings: server-level configuration, covering things like root password resets and hostname changes
OS & Panel: control over the operating system and which control panel is installed on the server
Backups & Monitoring: expands into Snapshots & Backups, Server Usage, and Latest Actions, which is where I found the weekly backup log confirming that claim held up
Security: covers the malware scanner and firewall settings, the section where I found the scanner switched off
API: opens Hostinger’s API documentation in a new tab, for anyone automating server management outside the panel
DNS Manager: domain and DNS record management tied to the server
Tutorials: an external link out to Hostinger’s help content
That is a wide enough spread to call it complete coverage for VPS administration. Server settings, OS control, security, backups, DNS, and API access are all represented as their own categories rather than buried inside a catch-all settings menu, and I did not run into anything I needed that was missing from this list.
What it does not do is fold in any Laravel-specific tooling, deploying code, managing environment files, running Artisan commands, all of that happens either through Cloudpanel or the terminal, not through this sidebar.
Which brings me to the terminal button sitting on the Ubuntu card. Its purpose is direct command-line access to the server itself, opening a live SSH session inside the browser without needing a separate SSH client or copying a private key onto your machine.
Clicking it dropped me straight into a root shell, already authenticated, with Cloudpanel’s welcome banner on screen showing its own web address and a CLI tool called clpctl for managing the panel from the command line.
For anyone comfortable working from a terminal, that is the fastest route to actually configuring the Laravel install, deploying code, editing environment variables, running migrations, since none of that has a dedicated button anywhere in hPanel itself.
Overall Verdict on Ease of Use
Checkout and the path from payment to a running server work well here, and giving real weight to the server location choice, rather than just defaulting to whichever region tests fastest, is a small touch that pays off for anyone thinking about where their actual visitors are.
The server management sidebar itself covers everything a VPS administrator would need, settings, OS and panel control, backups, security, DNS, and API access as clearly separated categories, and I did not hit a wall looking for a VPS-level control that was not there. Where this falls down is at the app-management layer.
The malware scanner advertised on the plan page was not installed on the server I received, and the one button actually labeled to manage the Laravel app sends you to a sign-up page for a competing paid product instead of anything resembling app management.
Cloudpanel and the terminal both work exactly as they should once you find them, and the weekly backups run on schedule as promised. The rough edge is that Hostinger’s own interface points you toward the wrong door first, and nothing in the panel explains that Manage App is not the app management you are looking for.
Hostinger Laravel VPS Hosting
Learn what Hostinger Laravel VPS Hosting offers for developers building and deploying Laravel applications. From dedicated resources and server customization to scalability and performance, this review explores its key features and hosting capabilities.
Kodee, Hostinger’s AI assistant, sits behind the Ask AI button in hPanel and handles support here, the same as it does across the rest of Hostinger’s products.
I tested it with two separate technical questions on this VPS, one about an interface issue I had already run into, and a second, deeper one about how Laravel actually runs in production on this server.
After that, I went through Hostinger’s knowledge base to see how much of that ground it covers without needing to ask anyone.
1. AI Support (Kodee)
My first question came straight out of testing the Laravel app card’s Manage App button, which had opened Laravel Cloud, a separate paid platform, instead of anything tied to the VPS itself.
I asked Kodee directly whether that button was supposed to open Laravel Cloud or manage the install already running through Cloudpanel, and what would actually happen if I signed up for Laravel Cloud from there.
Kodee answered within a minute:
Confirmed Manage App does not manage the existing VPS installation
Identified it correctly as a link to Laravel Cloud, a separate deployment platform
Pointed to Cloudpanel, accessible at the VPS IP on port 8443, as the real management surface
Warned that signing up for Laravel Cloud would create a separate, independently billed environment, not deploy anything to the VPS I had already paid for
That is a clean, correct answer to a question that has a real cost attached if you get it wrong, and it came with a citation to Hostinger’s own documentation rather than a guess.
Next, I asked something with more technical weight behind it. Laravel applications in production depend on a cron entry for the task scheduler and a Supervisor process to keep queue workers running, and I wanted to know whether the VPS template sets either of those up automatically, and whether Supervisor itself would survive a reboot if I configured it myself.
Kodee said it would check the server directly before answering, and it did:
Reported no schedule:run cron entry present
Reported no Supervisor service configured
Reported no queue worker set up
Provided the exact cron line needed for the scheduler
Provided a full Supervisor configuration block for a queue worker, with the correct flags
Confirmed Supervisor persists across a reboot once enabled with systemctl enable –now supervisor
Added the reminder to run php artisan queue:restart after deploying new code, a detail that is easy to miss and causes real production bugs when skipped
What I thought about AI support: Kodee earned its answers here rather than guessing. Confirming there was no scheduler cron and no Supervisor process before recommending anything is the difference between a checklist response and one grounded in what this specific server was actually doing, and the reminder to restart the queue worker after deploys is the kind of detail that only shows up when someone, or something, actually understands how Laravel queues behave in production.
Two questions, two accurate and complete answers, both delivered inside a couple of minutes.
2. Knowledge Base
Hostinger’s knowledge base is organized the same way across every product, large category tiles with article counts, a search bar, and a category filter at the top.
Rather than browse, I went straight to search and typed “laravel,” which returned 15 results across two pages, noticeably more than a narrower one-click app tends to surface.
That is worth a caveat though. More results is not the same as more relevant results, since several of the matches were only tangentially related, an article on PHP mail limitations and another on website migration issues both showed up simply because they mention Laravel in passing.
The most relevant result, “How to use the Laravel VPS template at Hostinger,” covers accessing Cloudpanel, understanding Laravel’s folder structure, editing the .env file, running Composer, and running migrations.
It’s a solid walkthrough of getting a Laravel project running on this template. What it does not cover is the scheduler or queue workers at all, the exact gap Kodee had to fill when I asked.
Digging further into the search results turned up something worth flagging. An older article, “How to deploy Laravel 8 at Hostinger,” does include a working cron example for the scheduler, but it is written for a different, older setup entirely, deploying Laravel manually onto shared or cloud hosting rather than the current VPS template, complete with a public_html file structure that has nothing to do with how Cloudpanel organizes a VPS.
Anyone on this VPS template searching the knowledge base for scheduler guidance would land on an article describing a different product before finding anything that actually applies to their server.
What I thought about the knowledge base: The article count looks strong on paper, 15 results for one search term, but raw volume hides how scattered the useful content actually is. The core VPS template article is well written and gets a first project running, yet it stops exactly where a production deployment gets serious, and the one piece of documentation that does cover the scheduler belongs to an unrelated, older hosting setup.
A reader trusting the knowledge base alone could easily follow that older guide and misconfigure their VPS by copying commands built for a completely different file structure.
Overall Verdict on Support
Kodee is doing the heavy lifting here, and it does it well. Both exchanges involved it checking the live state of the server before answering, and the second one produced a complete, correct, deploy-ready fix for something the VPS template leaves unconfigured by default.
The knowledge base holds up for getting a first Laravel project running, but its coverage thins out fast past that point, and what does exist for more advanced setup, like the scheduler, sits in an article written for an entirely different hosting product.
For anything past the basics, Kodee is the more reliable path, and it consistently backed that up with what it found by actually looking rather than what it assumed.
Hostinger Laravel VPS Hosting
Discover Hostinger Laravel VPS Hosting for developers seeking a scalable and customizable environment for Laravel applications. This review explores server performance, dedicated resources, security, flexibility, and overall hosting value.
Yes. The fundamentals here are strong. Laravel and Cloudpanel arrive pre-installed and working, the underlying hardware benchmarks well across CPU, memory, and disk, and Kodee turned in two accurate, server-aware technical answers when I put it to a real test. Weekly backups checked out against the account’s own logs, exactly as advertised.
The rough edges are narrow but worth knowing before you buy. The malware scanner listed as a headline feature was not switched on by default, and the Manage App button on the Laravel card sends you toward Laravel Cloud, a separate paid product, rather than anything resembling app management, with no documentation anywhere warning you ahead of time.
Neither is difficult to work around once you know Cloudpanel is the real management surface, but neither should require guesswork either.
For a developer who wants Laravel running fast on solid infrastructure, and who is comfortable spending five minutes finding Cloudpanel instead of the mislabeled button next to it, this is an easy recommendation. For someone who wants every advertised feature switched on the moment the server boots with zero cross-checking required, budget a few extra minutes for setup before calling it done.
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They offer VPS in 6 different locations, but there're only 4 of them. And you will know about that only after purchase. On the 1st day support said okay, no problem, we'll request the server migration, just stay tuned for a couple of hours and we'll answer you. The next day I asked them how it was going and received the information, that unfortunately they don't provide the VPS in the Netherlands anymore. I don't know how good or bad their servers are, but their control panel is one of the best I've ever seen and the support team responds fast and friendly.
highly recommended to others use this hosting provider it is excellent. Customer service is very quick and grateful. This one is exceeded our expectations.They have great communications and fast actions and lot of benifits.Thank you!!
Waited more than 2 hours to chat with support but no one responds. It happens many times. The email service was not working so i was trying to contact live chat support. trying from 2 days but they did not respond.
Thank you for your review; our team truly appreciates you bringing this situation to our attention!
Our Customer Success team is here for you, and it seems unique that you did not receive the needed help. Thus, we are eager to solve this situation as soon as possible.
At the moment, we cannot locate your account with us to review the case and upscale your experience promptly. Would you be able to contact us via mail at quality@hostinger.com? This way, we will have all the information to assist you.
We are looking forward to hearing from you, Muhammad!
I broke something on the site and the support from hostinger was amazing!
I'm usually never satisfied with online support but this was amazing. Fast, on point, super kind. The guy helping me out and went above and beyond. I don't think I've ever been this happy about customer support!!!
Just switched over to Hostinger after being at another web host provider. Their support has been fast, accurate, and helpful. Also, their Wordpress hosting is lightning fast!
Is Hostinger good for hosting Laravel applications?
Yes. Laravel and Cloudpanel come pre-installed the moment the VPS is provisioned, the underlying hardware performs well on CPU, memory, and disk, and Hostinger’s Kodee AI assistant gives accurate, specific answers to real Laravel configuration questions. The main catch is a malware scanner that ships switched off despite being advertised as included.
Does Hostinger's Laravel VPS come pre-installed with Laravel?
Yes. Laravel is offered as a one-click application during VPS checkout and installs automatically on Ubuntu alongside Cloudpanel, the control panel used to manage the application, its database, and its domain settings afterward.
Does Hostinger offer a free trial for Laravel VPS hosting?
No dedicated free trial exists for Laravel VPS plans. Hostinger backs every VPS tier with a 30-day money-back guarantee instead, though a second VPS refund within 180 days of the first will not be approved.
Can I get a refund on Hostinger VPS hosting?
Yes, within 30 days of purchase, as long as you have not already refunded a different VPS plan in the past 180 days. Upgrades to an existing VPS plan and payments made through cryptocurrency are excluded from refunds entirely.
How do I manage my Laravel application on Hostinger's VPS?
Through Cloudpanel, accessible from the Manage panel button on the Cloudpanel card in hPanel, or directly at the VPS IP address on port 8443. The Manage App button on the Laravel card itself does not manage the application, it links out to Laravel Cloud, a separate hosting product unrelated to the VPS.
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