Everything You Need to Know About Web Hosting (Shared, VPS, Cloud)

Web hosting is the digital home for your website — and the wrong choice means slow loading, frequent downtime, or hidden costs. In this guide, we break down hosting types and when to choose each.

Shared Hosting: $2 - 10/month. You share a single server with thousands of websites. Good for a personal blog or small site. But if a neighbor on your server hogs resources, your site's performance suffers directly.

Virtual Private Server (VPS): $20 - 80/month. An isolated partition of a larger server with dedicated resources just for you — better performance and stability. Suitable for e-commerce stores and medium-sized websites.

Cloud Hosting: $50 - 500/month. Resources distributed across multiple servers. If one server goes down, another takes over — meaning very high reliability. Suitable for large sites and fast-growing projects.

Dedicated Server: $300 - $2,000/month. An entire physical server just for your project. Full control, highest performance, maximum security. Only needed for large companies and projects requiring massive resources.

At Katbi, we use Vercel Cloud to host our Next.js projects — because it's fast, automatic, and deploys automatically with every push to GitHub. Our clients don't need to think about hosting — they focus on their business.