Hosting means renting space and computing power on a server that is connected to the internet at all times. The files of your website live on that server. When somebody opens your address, the server sends those files to the visitor.
A server is a computer in a data center, a building with power supply, cooling and a fast network connection. bown, a business in Vienna, Austria, runs its own servers in a data center inside the European Union and manages them itself.
Hosting is not the same as your domain, which is only the address people type. The server is also the place where your SSL certificate is installed and renewed, and where your backup is made.
Websites & shops
Core Web Vitals are three Google metrics for loading (LCP), responding to input (INP) and content shifting around (CLS); good means at most 2.5 seconds, 200 milliseconds and a score of 0.1.
Websites & shops
For online appointment booking, a ready-made tool is enough for most small businesses, as long as it offers a data processing agreement and sends reminders. Your own solution pays off when booking depends on how you work, for example on tables, rooms, pre-orders or payments that no tool handles that way.
Websites & shops
What a website costs depends mainly on scope, design, content and features such as a shop or booking. At bown a website starts from €499 excl. VAT, and running it with hosting and maintenance from €39 per month excl. VAT.
Hosting & servers
Moving domain and email works without an outage if you first record every DNS entry, prepare mailboxes at the new provider, only then switch over, and cancel the old contract only once everything demonstrably works.
Marketing & advertising
A usable marketing budget starts with a goal and then separates three items from each other, namely production, ongoing support and the money for the advertising platform.
Hosting & servers
Your website is a set of files on a server in a data center, your domain is the address that sends visitors there, and email runs as a separate service alongside it.
Prefer not to do this yourself? bown offers a free 30-minute intro call to talk through your project.