Hosting is where your website lives. Choosing a cheap plan without checking what it includes often ends up costing more: downtime, slowness, security issues or no support when you need it most. The good news is you don’t need to be technical to make a good decision.
The right hosting depends on the type of site, the traffic it gets and who will manage it; for most businesses, managed hosting offers the best balance of performance, security and peace of mind.
1. Types of hosting
| Type | How it works | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Shared | Many sites share the same server and its resources. | Small sites with little traffic. |
| VPS or cloud server | Dedicated resources within a virtual server. | Sites with more traffic, or online stores. |
| Managed | A team takes care of the server, security, backups and updates. | Businesses that prefer not to worry about the technical side. |
| Dedicated | A whole server for a single project. | Large platforms with specific needs. |
2. What to check before signing up
- Performance: SSD or NVMe storage, current PHP versions and enough resources for your traffic.
- Location and CDN: servers close to your visitors or a network such as Cloudflare.
- Security: SSL certificate, firewall and attack protection.
- Backups: automatic, frequent and easy to restore.
- Support: who answers, in which language and how fast.
- Scalability: room to grow without migrating to another provider.
3. Online stores: a special case
A store processes orders, payments and carts that can’t be cached like an informational page. It needs more resources, a well-tuned database and monitoring, especially during high-traffic seasons.
4. Keep the domain and email separate
Your domain should be registered in your company’s name, and you should have access to it. Business email usually works better on specialized services such as Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 than on the same server as your website.
5. Hosting needs maintenance too
A good server isn’t enough if the site isn’t kept up to date. Hosting and maintenance go hand in hand: updates, backups, monitoring and speed. See how to improve your website’s speed.
Related serviceHosting & MaintenanceLearn about the service →How we do it at Royale Studios
We offer managed hosting with providers such as Hetzner, SiteGround, Cloudflare and xCloud, choosing the infrastructure for each project, with backups, security, monitoring and support from our team.
