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Now, when it comes to choosing a hosting provider,

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I did mention that you will have

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to compare them on your own.

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And that is the case.

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But there is one important thing

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to understand and keep in mind

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that will indeed influence which hosting providers

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you can consider and which hosting providers

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will not be great choices.

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And that's the question of which kind of website you build.

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If it's a static or a dynamic website.

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Now I did use these terms before in the course,

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but I briefly want to recap what they mean.

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If we build a static website,

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that means that we build a website that only contains

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HTML, CSS, and browser-side JavaScript code.

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It does not contain any server-rendered templates

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or any other service-side code.

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It uses no server-side language like Node

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and no server-side framework like Express, therefore.

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We also don't use any database server with such a website.

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Instead, it's really just a basic website

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with HTML, CSS and browser-side JavaScript.

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And in such a case, if you have such a website

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you only need a static hosting provider:

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A hosting provider that specialized

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on hosting such static sites.

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Some hosting providers might offer both

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static and dynamic site hosting,

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but there also are dedicated static site hosting providers.

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You can, for example, google for a static site hosting,

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and this should then yield you hosting providers

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and comparisons and blog posts about hosting providers

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that offer static website hosting.

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So, then you can choose a provider from

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that list if you have this kind of website.

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And in case you're wondering if that is realistic,

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if there are real websites that are static.

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Yes, absolutely.

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There are websites that don't need any backend code.

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For example, our website academind.com is a static website

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because it just contains front-end content

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we got no backend code on this page alone.

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We got some backend content for some sub pages,

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but the main page is a static website

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hosted on a static site provider.

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Now static sites are just one kind of website though,

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and of course, there are many used cases

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where a static site is not enough.

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If you're building an online shop or a blog,

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then of course you need to store the data somewhere

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you need to do some calculations on the back

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and you need to have some backend logic.

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And in this case, you're building

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a so-called dynamic website.

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Though that's not a fixed or a reserved term

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It's just a term you'll often hear.

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Such a website is still a regular website

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but it's a website that has front-end,

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so HTML, CSS, and possibly browser-side JavaScript code

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and the backend, so Node and Express for example,

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or any other backend programming language

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it doesn't have to be Node-JS.

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Here you very often will have server-side templates

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and definitely some kind of service-side code.

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You also very often will have a database server

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though, of course that's not a must have

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it's just something you'll often see.

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And in such a scenario, you need a dynamic hosting provider

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or to be precise it's best if you google for

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the programming language you're using

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and then hosting provider.

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So here, if I google for Node-JS hosting provider,

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I find various examples, blog posts with explanations

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and so on about hosting providers, I could be using.

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And therefore that's an important differentiation

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you should be aware of when it comes to choosing

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a hosting provider.

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Now again, we'll choose a hosting provider

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later in this course section,

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but I already wanted to make you aware

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of this important difference.