As a developer, many of you might be familiar with the website "vercel", but my case was very different when I started with web development. When I was looking for free website hosting platforms for my projects, I came across a list of such platforms. But before going deep into that, some of you might be wondering what a hosting website does and what even hosting means.

So, hosting a website simply means, making your website live for the users so that they can experience, interact or just see what you or your team have developed as a developer. It can be considered the very last stage of the development of any project and is a very essential step for the deployment of any website.

Now, for hosting your website, you need hosting platforms, where you can just upload your project's file or repository, then it will deploy the website and at last, you will be provided with a link for accessing the deployed website. There are many such platforms available and choosing any one of them completely depends on the developer and his team.

When I started searching for such a platform, I came across a long list of such platforms, but I chose to go with vercel, and a few reasons for choosing so are,

• deployment of project is very easy.

• deployment takes very less time, hardly a few seconds or at most a minute.

• you can also deploy your projects directly from github, gitlab and bitbucket.

• supports more than 30 frameworks.

• you can even develop with your team on this platform.

Getting started with vercel.

In very simple words, vercel is a web hosting platform which is fast, reliable and easy to work with. Vercel is trusted by some of the best frontend teams of some of the biggest MNCs, such as adobe, ebay, tailwindcss, and a lot more.

Getting started with vercel is very simple,

1. Head over to this link.

2. Now, click on "Start Deploying" and you will be redirected to the login/signing page if not logged on from the system previously.

3. Over there, you can signup using your github, gitlab, bitbucket or simply by e-mail account. (I would suggest continuing with anyone from the first 3 options because it becomes easy to deploy your project by just importing the desired repository.)

4. After login or signup, you will be redirected to the dashboard, where you will see all your deployed projects (if deployed).

5. There only you will see a dropdown, "Add new...". From the dropdown menu select "Project" and then on the next page, you will see your projects with an "Import" option. Just click on the import button and then on the next page click on "Deploy".

6. That's it, just wait for a few seconds and your project is deployed. Your website is live on the URL provided there only. You can now share this URL with anyone by just copying and pasting.

Thanks guys, I hope, with this small blog from my side would help all my fellow web developers to host their website on vercel.