Hosting provider guide
Provider choice is a fit decision, not a popularity contest.
AWS, Azure, Hetzner, Contabo, Hostinger, Vercel, and other providers can all be valid. The right hosting choice depends on workload shape, region, cost, support, managed services, operations capacity, and handover.
FitWorkload
OpsMaintenance
ExitMigration path
Cloud hosting and VPS hosting searches often lead to provider lists. Provider lists are not enough. A business needs to know what it is hosting, who will maintain it, how data is backed up, and what happens when the first architecture no longer fits.
Official source note: AWS documents EC2 virtual servers, and Microsoft documents Azure App Service as a managed platform for websites, APIs, and mobile backends: AWS EC2 concepts and Azure App Service overview.
Provider selection
01Match workload and region02Compare managed features and operations burden03Plan handover, backups, and exit path
