Website hosting explained: what small businesses need

Hosting is the service that stores your website and serves it to visitors. It's invisible when it works and painfully obvious when it doesn't — slow load times, downtime, and security issues often trace back to poor hosting.

What good hosting gives you

• •Fast load times, ideally via a global CDN.
• •Reliable uptime so your site is always available.
• •HTTPS security included.
• •Backups and the ability to recover quickly.

One less thing to manage

Hosting is easy to get wrong and tedious to manage. With a managed website, hosting, security, and backups are handled for you — so you get the benefits without the headaches.