Hosting

Hosting means a provider gives you space and server resources where your website's files live so it's accessible worldwide. The host handles the infrastructure, internet connection, updates, and usually security and backups too. There are several models — from cheap shared hosting to VPS, cloud hosting, and dedicated servers. Speed, uptime ✕ Uptime is the share of time a website or server is reachable without outages, usually as a percentage. In hosting, the closer to 100%, the better. More in the glossary → , support, and price all matter when choosing. See which host fits which need in the best web hosting comparison.