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Serverless Hosting
Serverless hosting is a way of providing a service by hosting all server resources on the cloud and through a dynamic method. A company or team does not need to manage servers through this concept. The company is only paying for the amount of resources that are actually expended by their website or program, and the server is only technically running when it is in use.
Why use Serverless Hosting
Because you only end up paying when your site gets put to use, you end up saving a tremendous amount of money. No more paying for servers that are constantly up, and no more worrying about the servers in general. It makes life easier for developers, and when you take that problem out of the picture, they can get more done.
Provider 1: AWS Lambda
AWS, also known as Amazon Web Services, AWS has a serverless hosting called AWS Lambda, which functions with the entire Amazon Suite, as well as Node.JS, and Linux. Node.js, Python, Java, Go, and C# all function on AWS Lambda.
Provider 2: Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is a massive cloud computing platform owned by Microsoft. One of their many services in Azure is called Azure Function, where their customers are accessing serverless hosting, and are only billed on per-second resource consumption and executions.
Summary
In conclusion, we talked about Serverless hosting, which allows a developer to host all their server needs dynamically, and only paying when the site is actually in use. This saves the developers time, money, and doesn't require them to actually manage the servers at all. We also talked about two Serverless Hosting providers, AWS and Microsoft, who have their own platforms for this hosting. Amazon has AWS Lambda, and Microsoft has Azure Function. Both are great ways for developers to access serverless hosting.