How Choose Hosting for the Site
Having worked in the web industry for many years, serving my clients’ websites and websites, I have worked with many hosting companies. I learned a lot and know what to look at when choosing a hosting. Bad hosting is an eternal headache and possibly a loss of money. On the other hand, good hosting will make your life a lot easier.
In this guide, I’ll share the most important points that I’ve learned over the years, help me understand the basic principle of hosting, show what you should look at in the first place when choosing a quality provider, and what types of hostings are suitable for different projects. I’ll also give you a few tips on how not to get caught up in common mistakes when choosing a hosting.
Note: The main purpose of this article is to cover all topics and help people choose hosting without looking at their goals and limitations. In fact, there is a lot of information, some of which will be useful to you, the other part you will already know. If some sections don’t belong to your project, you can safely skip them. By the end of this article, you’ll be more confident in choosing the hosting that will be the backbone of your site.
Introduction: What is hosting?
When you deploy the first site, you can easily get confused by a lot of new terminology and concepts. Let’s start from the beginning: the exact definition of hosting.
Note: If you already understand how hosting and domains work, you can go to the “question list” section.
In a nutshell, web hosting caters to a variety of computer (servers) that are configured in a certain way. Servers look something like this:
In many ways, these computers are no different from your home; they work on the Linux or Windows operating system, store files and connect to the Internet. The main difference is that servers are publicly available, people can view their content on the Internet. Every time you browse the site, you actually connect to a server somewhere on the other side of the world and download the site’s files through your browser.
Hosting companies are companies that provide rental space on servers so you can store your site there. You upload your site’s files to the server, and hosting makes sure that people can connect to your location on the server and browse your site.
Hosting, domain and how they interact
Now that you know the basics of hosting, it’s critical to understand the differences between hosting and domain and how they interact with each other. This will help you better understand the meaning of the main differences. Let’s get to the basics
