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For many php frameworks it's as simple as downloading a zip file and ftping files to your hostgator shared account.

Places like digitalocean have prebuilt machines for both. On a new centos or ubuntu server installing php/composer/laravel can be done in 10 steps.

In the laravel world we have forge which allows you to script and provision your stack