the.com/application hosting
paying someone else to babysit your code so 3am crashes are their problem too.
means a service that runs and maintains your app on remote servers so you dont have to own or manage the hardware yourself.
from emerged from the shift away from on-premise servers in the early 2000s, as companies realized racking their own machines was expensive cosplay as a data center.
scaling mythmost outages are config errors, not traffic spikes.
cold startserverless hosting can add real latency on first request.
vendor lock-inmigrating hosts often costs more than switching banks.