I'd prefer a PaaS as to not have to worry about dev ops, server management, etc. at first, and if things go well, move to something more direct down the road.
There's a heroku build pack: <a href="https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php</a><p>AppFog, I think from the docker guys originally, offered PHP from the start: <a href="http://www.appfog.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.appfog.com</a>