laravel 5.1 (LTS) requires PHP 5.5.9+ [1]. I don't think this version would be widely available on those "low-end budget share hosting" environments. On the ot

laravel 5.1 (LTS) requires PHP 5.5.9+ [1]. I don't think this version would be widely available on those "low-end budget share hosting" environments. On the other hand, deploy a RoR project is relatively simple with Heroku's "heroku button" [2]. [1] http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/releases#laravel-5.1 http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/releases#laravel-5.1 [2] https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2014/8/7/heroku-button https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2014/8/7/heroku-button