Hosting is where websites quietly succeed or suffer: it determines your speed (which Google ranks), your uptime (which customers experience), and your options when something goes wrong at midnight. It is also a market full of misleading marketing. Here is how to choose without learning the expensive way.
| Type | Right for | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| Shared hosting | Brochure sites, low traffic, tight budgets | You share a server with hundreds of strangers - their spikes and infections become your problems |
| VPS | Business sites, stores, applications | Your own slice of resources - but "unmanaged" means you (or your provider) must actually manage it |
| Cloud (AWS/GCP/etc.) | Applications needing scale and reliability | Powerful and pay-per-use; complexity and cost need governance |
| Dedicated server | Heavy, steady workloads | Maximum control, maximum responsibility |
For a typical Nepali business website or store, a managed VPS hits the sweet spot: real performance without shared-hosting roulette, at prices well below dedicated hardware.
Matters:
Mostly marketing: "Unlimited" anything (read the fair-use clause - it is never unlimited), inflated "99.99%" claims without SLA credits, and bundled extras (free domains, site builders) that distract from the fundamentals above.
Walk away when you see: prices that triple on renewal (check year-two pricing), no published SLA, support only via ticket with day-long silences, servers running years-old PHP, or a provider who cannot say where your data physically lives.
Ask before buying:
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