Page 7 - 9 Requirements You Need to Know to Build Beautiful Websites

A host is the storage unit where your website content lives online.

Whenever someone enters your domain name in a web browser, the brows-
er will fetch your website content from your website host.

The type of hosting you choose depends on how many visitors you have
coming to your website.

The cost of your hosting will increase when more people visit your website as
you will need to upgrade from basic to advanced hosting.

THERE ARE 4 GENERAL TYPES OF WEBSITE HOSTING
SHARED HOSTING: You are sharing a
server with other websites.
VPS HOSTING: You are still sharing a server
with other websites, but you get more capacity
to handle more visitors.
DEDICATED HOSTING: You have a server all to yourself and don’t need to
share. This is often used by very large, enterprise level websites.

FREE HOSTING: This is provided for all fully managed drag & drop website
builders.

If this is your first website using a self-hosted website builder like WordPress, it
is hard to know how much traffic you will have. So I recommend that you
start with Shared Hosting.

Once you get a better idea how many visitors you get a month and how
fast your traffic is growing, you can always upgrade to VPS hosting.

If you are using a fully managed website builder like Wix, Squarespace or
Weebly, you don’t have to worry about hosting. They manage the entire
hosting aspect for you so that frees up your time (and technical headaches)
to do other things.

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