Web Hosting
Web hosting is a service that provides the server infrastructure needed to store your website's files and make them accessible to visitors on the internet.
Web hosting is the service that makes your website available on the internet. A web host provides server space where your website's files (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, databases) are stored and served to visitors when they type your domain name into their browser. There are several types of web hosting.
VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting gives you a dedicated portion of a server with guaranteed resources. Dedicated hosting provides an entire physical server exclusively for your site. Cloud hosting uses multiple servers working together, offering scalability and redundancy.
In practice
- A growing e-commerce store on shared hosting experienced crashes during sales events; migrating to cloud hosting eliminated downtime and supported 20x normal traffic during Black Friday
- A startup using Vercel for hosting deploys code changes automatically on every push to GitHub, with their site served from edge servers in 70+ locations worldwide
- A law firm's website on a $5/month shared host had a TTFB of 1.5 seconds; switching to a managed VPS reduced it to 200ms, directly improving their Google rankings
- A media company's managed WordPress host automatically handles security patches, daily backups, and CDN integration, freeing their team to focus on content instead of infrastructure
Not sure how this applies to you?
A senior engineer walks your site, your search presence and the way enquiries reach you, then writes down the three things worth fixing first. You keep the document either way.