PaaS

PaaS stands for platform as a service: managed hosting platforms that run a website without the owner administering a server. The category spans general clouds such as Amazon Web Services and Azure, front-end deployment platforms like Vercel, Netlify and GitHub Pages, and managed WordPress hosts including WordPress.com, WP Engine, Kinsta, Flywheel and SiteGround. The platform tells you how a site is hosted and roughly what the owner pays for it. The list is useful for competing hosts and migration services, performance, backup and security add-ons sold per platform, WordPress agencies targeting a particular host, and developer tooling vendors who integrate with a deployment platform.