What is hosting?

Short answer

Hosting is the place on a server where your website lives. Without hosting your website cannot be reached.

You can see hosting as renting a shop for your website. The better the building, the faster and safer your site.

Cheap hosting is often slow and you have to arrange everything yourself. Think of updates, backups and security. With managed hosting someone does that for you.

Also check where the server is. A server in the EU is faster for European visitors and easier for the GDPR.

Real-life example

At Marketing Friends every website runs on our own server in the Netherlands. Backups and updates are included in the price of €150 per month.

How we help with this

At Marketing Friends we take care of this for businesses across Europe. Read more about Website maintenance and hosting or start with the free scan.

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