Module 67: Hosting Technologies
What an app needs from hosting
🏠The everyday picture
Before renting premises for a business, you list what you need: floor space, a kitchen or not, opening hours, parking, budget, and whether a landlord handles repairs. The right building follows from the list.
📘What it really is
List your app's real needs before comparing hosts:
- What runs: static files only? A Node.js server? Background jobs? A database? File storage?
- Traffic: visitors per day, busiest hours, sudden spikes (exam results, sales).
- Data: how much, how sensitive (personal data, payments), where it must be stored (some data must stay in India).
- Availability: can it be down for an hour at night? For a day?
- Who looks after it: do you have time and skills for servers (Course 6.1), or should the provider?
- Budget: monthly cost now, and at ten times the users.
- Location: servers near your users (Mumbai, Hyderabad or Delhi regions for India) make pages faster.
For your CRM (Level 5): a React frontend (static), a Node.js API, PostgreSQL, file uploads, modest traffic, personal data, and a small team.
🖱️Try it
Write hosting-needs.md for your CRM, answering each point above with numbers or clear statements. This is the checklist
you'll compare hosting options against in this module.
✅Quick check
Why list needs before choosing a host?
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So the choice is based on what the app actually requires, not on marketing or habit.
Why does server location matter for Indian users?
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Closer servers mean faster responses, and some data may need to stay in India.