What is Managed hosting?
The short answer
Managed hosting is hosting where the provider handles servers, updates, security, backups and scaling, so you only manage the site.
Managed hosting, explained
Platform hosts for modern frameworks are managed by design: you deploy code; they run everything underneath.
Questions people ask about Managed hosting
What is Managed hosting?
Managed hosting is hosting where the provider handles servers, updates, security, backups and scaling, so you only manage the site.
Related terms
Web hosting is the service that stores a website's files on internet-connected servers and delivers them to visitors around the clock.
VercelVercel is a hosting platform for front-end frameworks, especially Next.js, that deploys from Git and serves sites from a global edge network.
NetlifyNetlify is a hosting platform for static and Jamstack sites with Git-based deploys, forms, serverless functions and preview builds.
DeployTo deploy is to publish a new version of a website to its host so visitors see it; modern hosts deploy automatically when code is pushed to Git.
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