Hosting
Website and technology
Website and technology
Hosting is where your website's files and database run and from where they are served to visitors.
Cheap shared hosting splits capacity with dozens of other sites; you notice that in response time as soon as traffic rises. Speed, backups and support are what you should choose on.
Also check where the data sits and whether there are daily backups you can restore yourself. That's the difference between an incident and a disaster.
Related terms
- CMSA CMS is the system you use to manage your website's content without programming: pages, copy, images and menus.
- PageSpeedPageSpeed is how fast your page loads and becomes usable. Google PageSpeed Insights scores it from 0 to 100 and lists concrete improvements.
- SSLAn SSL certificate (technically TLS these days) encrypts traffic between visitor and server. You recognise it by https in the address bar.