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Where your project will live
Hosting is the computer that keeps your site switched on around the clock. There are two options.
Free. For simple sites with no database of their own, there are platforms where it's all free: Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages. Upload the project - it opens at an address. No configuration. For a first project it's ideal, and there's nothing to be embarrassed about.
Your own server. Needed once there's a database, background jobs, bots - in short, once the project has to do something rather than just show pages. Two to ten dollars a month.
How to know which you need: if the project only shows pages, free is enough. If it has to store, calculate, or do something on a schedule, you need a server.
Don't take a server "for the future". Moving from free to your own is an evening's work, and it's better done when you actually hit the wall.