Valen From Laably • March 22, 2023

What is web hosting?

To explain what hosting is, I want you to think about your hotel, specifically the physical place where your hotel is located, as well as possibly you are paying rent for this physical space, which is necessary for your hotel to exist, hosting is that rent that you must pay so your website visitors can find you, basically if you do not pay the rent for your hotel you cannot operate, just as if you do not have a hosting, your website will not be visible on the Internet.

A hosting is the space where the data that builds your website is stored, and that must be available quickly and efficiently every time a visitor wants to access the site, but the hosting not only serves to host your page, it also protects the data it contains, this safeguards the information on your site in case an error occurs.

To measure the size of the space you need, think, for example, about the number of rooms your hotel has, the more guests you expect to visit you, the more rooms you need, the same happens with the hosting, the more visitors you receive on your website, the more storage capacity you require, and what is better than having the option to expand the space of your hotel as you expect to receive more guests, in the same way you can choose a type of hosting that expands as your visits to your website grow.

There are different types of hosting: Shared, Virtual Private Server (VPV), dedicated, managed or in the cloud, the one we use and recommend on our websites is cloud hosting, this type of service uses several virtual servers that work together and distribute the data processing, so if any of the servers fails, the work is distributed to another server, thus preventing the website from crashing in this case. And as I told you in the example of the hotel rooms, having a hosting in the cloud, as the website receives more visits, the space expands.

The cloud hosting that we use at Laably is Amazon Web Services (AWS) and some of its advantages are:

Hosting in different parts of the world: When hosting is contracted, not only do you pay for a virtual space, but also for a physical server where the information will be stored. When accessing a website, the distance between the origin server and the visitor's device affects the processing time, this is one of the reasons that can make a website slow. In the case of Amazon, which has data centers distributed throughout the world, it means that no matter where the visitor is, the connection will be fast and easy.

Scalability from the first day: The traffic of a website is quite variable, and as your hotel positions itself better, you will surely have more visits to your site, for this reason, as you have more visits, the space in the cloud expands, without need to acquire a new service.

Having a good hosting is key to guarantee the proper operation of your website. Remember that at Laably we would love to work together and guarantee you the best service in websites development.

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