Hosting comparison

The decisive question is not only where a website is hosted, but what the hosting stack stores about visitors by default.

Managed hosting

Ask whether access logs can be disabled, anonymised or shortened, which retention period applies, and whether support or security systems keep additional request data.

Servers and VPS

With your own server you usually have more control, but you also need to inspect the full stack: web server, reverse proxy, application, firewall, intrusion detection and provider-level logs.

What to compare

• ✓ Access-log configurability
• ✓ IP handling and retention
• ✓ Upstream proxy/CDN logging
• ✓ Security-system retention
• ✓ Clear documentation and support answers