Web Hosting Analysis: The perfect time to Upgrade Cloud/VPS

Selvakumar Rangasamy
5 min readAug 8, 2016

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People Often have confusion when to move to VPS from their Shared Hosting Plans. It is because of two things.

1. How much cost it will be, If I move to VPS?

2. It might be a new interface, How can I manage and learn it?

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1.The cost of VPS is low when compared to the performance of shared hosting at its costs

If you are creating a new website and it likely to get little traffic due to less popularity, then shared hosting would be the best fit for you until you start promoting your site.

The basic shared Hosting consists of the following

  • Number of domains,
  • The amount of disk space and
  • The amount of Bandwidth you can use.

Many Hosting providers mentioned that they are giving unlimited domains, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk space.

But even though they give everything unlimited for your hosting plans, you will always be stuck with resource limitation at shared Hosting.

Resource Limitation

Resource limitaion | Source

No more Usages

In Shared Hosting plan, your site is hosted on the server where other websites are also hosted. Your sites are sharing the following resources.

  • CPU performance
  • RAM
  • Bandwidth
  • IP address

However, the IP address won’t be a big issue when we talk about the resources. But the other resources mentioned above affects the performance of a website in shared Hosting.

You will have a particular limitation for using them. If you overuse them(Incase Heavy traffic flow when you promote your site), the other sites performance will go down. So to avoid that the service provider limits the resources allocated to the website.

So you will end up in losing your reputation, and the site will go down.

So, The correct time for moving to VPS is when your website started to receive the huge amount of traffic and your experience slow loading of the site. The server response time also goes down, when traffic increases.

VPS the perfect time

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Virtual Private Server is best when you have the huge amount of traffic. A dedicated server is divided into the small set of servers using software.

Some provide hardware virtualization. It is much better. E.g ServerCake India.

They provide hardware virtualized VPS which gives better performance than the software virtualized servers.

The servers are running individually and sharing the resources, but the allocated resources are entirely dedicated to the specified VPS. No other can access it.

The VPS concept is “ Have own server with the small budget.”

The starting price of the VPS is almost ten times lower than a dedicated server. Though the cost is low. VPS gives you almost all the access like dedicated server. You can enjoy the facilities at low cost.

You get the following benefits when moving to VPS

  • Dedicated IP
  • Dedicated Resources
  • Your choice of OS
  • Feel like dedicated server.
  • Root Access
  • Cpanel
  • and much more

Hardware Instant Upgrade

Instant Hardware Upgrade

The Important and loved feature of VPS is you can increase your resources whenever your require. You can increase the following resources

  • Ram
  • CPU core
  • Disc Space (I will write about why increasing disc space is important when the traffic increases)
  • Bandwidth ( You should have higher bandwidth to manage the high amount of traffic.

Instantly increasing the resources helps you to handle the traffic and saves you from the server crash.

Save Money

Cost savings on VPS

The VPS hosting Plan starts where the highest package of Shared Hosting plan ends.

The Basic VPS Hosting Plan gives the higher performance and security than the highest Shared Hosting Plan.

In Shared Hosting Plan you won’t get your own IP, and the website uses the shared IP. If Hacker performs DDOS attack on the IP, Then all of the website shares the IP will suffer.

Do you want to suffer for the others?

VPS hosting provides you dedicated IP where you can Host all your website with that. You have your environment, and you won’t share it with anyone. It is the biggest freedom.

This is the factor which made hosting experts to recommend VPS to the users.

Conclusion

If you want freedom and own resource you can go with VPS. I recommend it for you. Especially go with hardware virtualized VPS.

When I inquired with a lot of hosting providers about hardware virtualization, I did not get the proper response, they have transferred my chat and trying to confuse and convince through the hosting terms.

Most of them struggled to answer. (you don’t know one secret. Most of the hosting providers are selling you the product with the name of another product. E.g ( Selling VPS with the name of dedicated server). At last, I found one who answered all of my questions clearly (ServerCake).

But I don’t want to stick with one company, If you know any best company, please do let me know through comments. A lot of small and medium hosting companies are doing well in the industry. They maintain quality and support to gain more attention.

“I am not the fan of brands; I am the fan of quality.”

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Selvakumar Rangasamy

Business Marketing, Google Adwords, SEO, Analytics, Facebook Ads, PPC, Landing Page Optimization, Content Marketing, Link Building, B2B and B2c Professional