# How Agencies & Freelancers Should Do Web Hosting

DevFeed: [How Agencies & Freelancers Should Do Web Hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-agencies-freelancers-should-do-web-hosting-31321.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://nystudio107.com/blog/web-hosting-for-agencies-freelancers>)

Author: andrew@nystudio107.com (Andrew Welch)

Published: 2017-03-09T07:10:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [nystudio107 | Articles on modern web development.](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nystudio107-articles-on-modern-web-development.md>)

Topics: [hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hosting.md>), [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>)

Tags: [afterthought](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/afterthought.md>), [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hosting.md>), [insights](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/insights.md>), [shouldn-t](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shouldn-t.md>), [useless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/useless.md>), [web-hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-hosting.md>), [webserver](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webserver.md>), [websites](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/websites.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains why agencies and freelancers should treat web hosting as an important project decision. It compares shared, managed, and VPS hosting and argues that VPS hosting is often the best choice, while criticizing shared hosting for its cost and reliability tradeoffs.

## Source excerpt

Websites are useless without a webserver hosting it. Yet web hosting is often an afterthought. It shouldn't be.