Hosting

What is website hosting?

To host a website means to make your website publically accessible. Without website hosting, you wouldn’t have an online presence.

What does a good hosting provider look like?

Finding a good hosting provider is important. A good hosting provider provides a multitude of benefits:

• Speed
• Security
• Scalability
• Support
• Flexbility

In addition, a good hosting provider allows you to easily edit information related to your website.

Why I use Netlify

Netlify is an industry-standard hosting provider that I’ve been using for a few years now. In addition to having all of the benfits I’ve listed above, it’s been reliable. To this date, I haven’t had any of my websites go down because of Netlify: 100% uptime.

Plus, I can’t speak enough about Netlify’s ease of use. Netlify makes it easy for me to go in and change domain information. You have a custom domain you’d like to use? I can set it up with Netlify quickly and easily. It also automatically secures your website which has a threefold benefit: it makes your website secure, users trust a secure website, and security is a ranking factor on Google.

Conclusion

A good hosting provider is important. They offer a multitude of benefits such as speed, security, and scalability. Netlify has all of those benefits and more: it’s easy to plug in your custom domain and it secures your website automatically.