Web Hosting by Use Case: Match the Host to the Site
A personal blog and a WooCommerce store both run on PHP, but they need different things from a host: caching and a CDN for one, more CPU and PCI-friendly infrastructure for the other. These pages pick hosts by the site you are building.
What to check before you choose
Before the individual pages, the checks that apply to this whole category
- Whether the stack it is tuned for matches yours (WordPress, a static site, Node, Laravel).
- Room to grow: CPU and RAM headroom, and an upgrade path that is not a migration.
- The features your use case needs by default: staging, Git, object cache, a CDN, email.
- Support that understands your platform.
Comparisons and buying guides
3 pages, each with a ranked shortlist
Best Hosting for WordPress
Match a WordPress host to your budget and how hands-on you want to be.
Read →Best Hosting for WooCommerce
Host a WooCommerce store that stays fast through checkout and traffic spikes.
Read →Best Hosting for Developers
Get a host that stays out of the way and gives you real server access.
Read →Hosting, explained
The fundamentals behind this category, in plain English
Hosting for High-Traffic Websites: What Handles the Load
A site that flies with ten visitors can crawl with two hundred at once. The fix is rarely a bigger plan alone. It is caching, worker limits, the database and a CDN, in that order.
Read guide →Caching Explained: Page Cache, Object Cache and OPcache
Caching is just keeping the answer so you do not have to work it out again. A fast site uses four kinds at once, and knowing which is which tells you what to ask a host for.
Read guide →Hosting for Web Apps and Software: VPS, Cloud and What You Need
Shared hosting runs PHP and a database and little else. An app in Node, Python, Go or Docker needs root access, long-running processes and resources you can size. That means a VPS, a cloud instance or a platform.
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