Hosting
These three names describe how much of a machine you get and how much of it you look after. Pick by how your site behaves, not by which sounds most powerful.
Published 25 February 2026 8 min read
Your site sits on a server with other sites, and the host maintains everything. It is the cheapest option and the right one for the overwhelming majority of websites — brochure sites, blogs, portfolios and small stores.
A virtual private server reserves cores, memory and storage that nobody else can use, and gives you root access. You choose the operating system and software versions. Unless you buy a managed plan, patching and monitoring are yours.
An entire physical machine reserved for you. It makes sense for very high sustained traffic, strict compliance requirements or workloads that must not share hardware. It is the most expensive and the most demanding to run.
Compare shared, business, cloud and VPS plans side by side — or ask an engineer and get a straight answer.
Business hosting gives you guaranteed processing power and memory while staying fully managed — the usual right answer for a growing site. Cloud hosting lets you add resources within minutes, which suits unpredictable traffic and campaigns.
Answer these and the choice makes itself.
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