What is web hosting?
The service that stores your website's files and serves them to visitors. The land your site is built on.
Web hosting is the service that keeps your website’s files on a server connected to the internet, so anyone typing your address can load it. If a domain name is your address, hosting is the land the building sits on.
What good hosting gives you
- Uptime. Your site stays online.
- Speed. Files reach visitors from servers near them.
- Security. Protection, backups, and an SSL certificate for HTTPS.
- Room to grow. Capacity that holds up when traffic spikes.
Types of hosting
- Shared. Lower-cost; your site shares a server with many others.
- Managed / cloud. More reliable and scalable; the host handles the hard parts.
- Static / edge hosting. Modern platforms that serve pre-built sites from a global network, built for speed and cost control.
The right choice depends on what the site needs to do. A fast static business website has different hosting needs from a busy web app, and hosting quality shows up in page speed.