01 What to ask a provider
SLA, data center location relative to your audience, backups with tested restore, SSL, DDoS protection, and convenient staging.
02 Typical scenarios
A landing page/blog — quality managed hosting. Mid-sized CMS projects — a VPS with monitoring. High load — cloud + CDN + observability.
03 Red flags
No backups, endless "maintenance windows," a shared IP on spam blocklists, no HTTP/2 or HTTP/3.
