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Which Hosting? Explained

A four-question guide that maps your traffic, ops appetite, latency needs, and cost shape to a hosting platform.

Hosting choices trade cost, control, and scale. Answer four questions. Each answer weights toward the platform that fits your workload.

Decision guide · 4 options

The options

Vercel or Netlify

PaaS with git-push deploys and zero config.

You ship frontends or Jamstack sites fast. Push to git, the build runs, the CDN serves the output.

Cloudflare Pages or Workers

Edge runtime that runs in the closest POP.

Traffic spikes hard or sits near zero. Code runs worldwide and scales to none.

VPS like Hetzner or DigitalOcean

A rented box you fully operate.

You need root, a fixed region, and a flat bill. You patch the OS and run the deploy.

AWS or GCP

Managed services that compose and scale.

You wire databases, queues, and functions. Bills track usage and the surface is vast.

Which one fits you?

Answer a few questions to get a recommendation.

Question 1 of 4

What shape is your traffic?