Websites
Hosting
The service that keeps your website's files on a server connected to the internet so people can load it. Modern hosting also handles speed, security and backups.
Why it matters for your business
Cheap shared hosting is the hidden cause of many slow, flaky sites. Good hosting serves pages from locations near the visitor, renews certificates and stays up. For a small business it is one of the smallest line items in the whole stack.
In practice
A landscaper's site moves from a shared cPanel account to Vercel. Pages load from a server near the visitor, the certificate renews itself, and a bad update can be rolled back in a click.
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