Web Hosting
Definition.
Web Hosting: A type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web.
In More Detail
Hosting has separated into distinct concerns: static assets on a CDN, application servers that run your code, and a managed database. Treating them separately means each can scale on its own.
For the stacks I work in, that typically means a Next.js frontend on Vercel with its edge network, a Django backend on a container platform, and managed PostgreSQL. The reason to pay for managed services is not convenience but risk — backups, failover, and patching are things you only think about once, at the worst possible time, if you run them yourself.
In Practice
I typically deploy Next.js frontends to Vercel and Django backends to a cloud VM or platform like Railway/Render, rather than shared hosting — it keeps deploys fast and makes rollbacks a one-click operation if something breaks.
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