Hostinger is a web hosting provider whose plans are managed from its own control panel, hPanel. Its web hosting plans come with PHP, MySQL, Composer and free SSL certificates, and run websites on the LiteSpeed web server, which reads the .htaccess file that October CMS includes. This article installs October CMS on a Hostinger web hosting plan over SSH and sets up the scheduler.

Tip: Hostinger also offers October CMS as a one-click Docker template for its VPS plans, which deploys October CMS on a virtual server of your own.

Cloudways is a managed cloud hosting platform. It runs your website on a server from DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud, and looks after the server for you. Servers come with PHP, MySQL and Composer ready to use, along with free Let's Encrypt SSL certificates. This article launches a server on Cloudways Flexible with a custom PHP application, installs October CMS on it over SSH and sets up the scheduler.