Hosting is just the computer your website's files live on, connected to the internet so anyone can load your pages. That's the entire mystery. The industry wraps it in jargon because confusion sells $30-a-month packages to businesses that need none of it.
A site like the ones we build is a set of files: pages, images, styles. It doesn't need a rented server grinding away all day. Modern platforms (Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages and friends) serve files like these from fast, worldwide networks, and their free tiers comfortably cover a local business's traffic. Not "free trial" free. Actually free.
If that's not you, and for most trades it isn't, the $30/month "business hosting" plan is paying for the host's marketing, not your website.
The platforms we're talking about serve files from global networks that big companies use. For a static business site they're typically faster than cheap paid hosting.
Limits you're unlikely to hit: bandwidth caps in the hundreds of gigabytes, no server-side apps. A local business site uses a sliver of that.
For a static site, no. Those tools belong to an older way of hosting. Files go up through a simple deploy, and the platform handles the rest.
Rather have someone who does this every day handle it? That's the $75/mo plan. Or keep going solo, that's the whole point of these guides.
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