Choose the simplest hosting surface that can do the job.
Compare managed website hosting, managed application hosting and a VPS from five practical decisions—not from plan marketing.
- Outcome
- A primary route, a close alternative and the checks to verify before purchase
- Time
- About 2 minutes
- Privacy
- Local by default; optional private save
You choose what to keep.
Calculations run locally without provider requests or input analytics. Refreshing clears working values. Only “Confirm & save snapshot” sends the displayed numbers/choices and your title to private, encrypted account storage. Nothing is automatically saved.
Describe the operating job.
Choose the nearest answer. This is a route comparison, not a provider recommendation.
Managed website
Your answers favour this operating surface.
- Primary score
- 20
- Alternative
- Managed application
Why it surfaced
- The core job is a website outcome rather than custom server operation.
- Low maintenance comfort strongly favours a managed surface.
Verify before purchase
- Runtime, database, storage and background-process limits
- Backup scope, restore ownership and recovery time
- Traffic, bandwidth, scaling and overage behaviour
- Support boundary, upgrade responsibility and exit path
Keep this decision
Saving is optional. Calculations are free; signed-in users can keep a private snapshot. Premium and Team can compare snapshots and export briefs.
My saved calculations →Estimate first. Verify the changing facts next.
The utility makes its assumptions and arithmetic visible. Before spending money or changing a live system, replace example values with current first-party information and preserve a rollback path.
- 01Enter the exact jobUse real workload values, not an aspirational maximum.
- 02Read the boundarySee what the calculator deliberately does not infer.
- 03Verify at sourceConfirm current limits, prices, records or plan terms.
- 04Make a controlled decisionRecord the owner, evidence and rollback before action.