That 8 euros a month on shared hosting feels like a bargain. Until you discover AI crawlers systematically skip your site because your neighbor on the same server just blasted a newsletter to 40,000 people. An honest story about hosting and AI visibility.
A slow server is not just annoying for visitors, it is a dealbreaker for AI bots. TTFB above 500ms? Then you lose crawls, indexation and ultimately AI citations. This is how you fix it, from twenty years of hosting and performance experience.
TTFB. Four letters that make the difference between being cited by AI or being forgotten. After twenty years of obsessively optimizing servers I explain why those first hundred milliseconds determine everything.
You can have perfect content and beautiful structured data, but if your hosting does not cooperate, it never reaches AI crawlers. After twenty years of managing hosting I know: this is the most underestimated pillar of AI visibility.
You can have the most beautiful schema.org markup and a flawless llms.txt. But if your server needs two seconds to wake up, you are already old news to AI crawlers. Performance is not a nice-to-have. It is the absolute foundation.