Check out forge.laravel.com, it's a tool for spinning up droplets, you could connect it to digital ocean or vultr. For a basic project you could go with a $5 D

Check out forge.laravel.com, it's a tool for spinning up droplets, you could connect it to digital ocean or vultr. For a basic project you could go with a $5 Digital Ocean Droplet. You can sign up for forge with a 14 day trial, create your droplet and then cancel forge if this is a one time thing. You would still have access to your droplet through ssh, sftp and connecting to the database. But it's nice to have forge for creating servers when you need them and deployments. Forge saves you the time of configuring your droplet, installing ubuntu, etc. Performance and security on digital ocean is going to be better than a shared host.