There is a persistent idea that shared hosting is what you settle for before you can afford something real. For most small businesses it is not. A shared plan is a genuinely appropriate product, and we would rather sell you the smallest thing that runs your site properly than talk you into resources you will never use.<\/p>\n
One domain, roughly 5GB of NVMe storage, SSL included, email support. This is the right answer for a brochure site, a portfolio, a small business site with a handful of pages, or a landing page. It is cheap because many sites share the machine, and the storage is NVMe rather than older spinning media, so storage itself is not the slow part.<\/p>\n
If your site is a few pages with no database and no customer data, this is enough. Paying for more would be us selling you something you do not need.<\/p>\n
Dedicated resources, starting at 16GB of RAM and 320GB of NVMe and scaling to 64GB and 640GB. This is where resource contention stops being theoretical. You are not sharing CPU or memory with strangers, and a bad neighbor can no longer affect your uptime.<\/p>\n
This tier is for sites with real traffic, transactional work such as an e-commerce store taking orders, a database under load, custom server configuration, or a PHP version you need to control yourself. It is also where you go when the shared host is the bottleneck rather than the code.<\/p>\n
Custom configuration, load balancing, redundancy, and a dedicated account manager. For high load, strict compliance requirements, or uptime commitments that would cost more than the site itself if missed. If you need this, you likely already have a technical person involved, and you should be having that conversation with them directly.<\/p>\n
Notice that most of these are conditions, not feelings: traffic, load, or a specific requirement you cannot meet.<\/p>\n
Most small business sites do not need a VPS. We mean that literally. A typical local business site serves a few hundred visitors a month across a dozen pages, and a shared plan handles that comfortably for a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n
Upselling a VPS is a very effective way to charge more money, and it is one of the most common patterns in this industry. If somebody tells you that you need more resources than you are using, ask what specifically is slow and what measurement showed it. If there is no answer to that question, the recommendation is not based on your site.<\/p>\n
Look at the numbers before you buy. What is your real traffic, measured rather than assumed. How fast the site loads, and where the time goes: server, database, or asset size. Is anything throttled or hitting a limit. Have you had an actual outage, and was resource contention identified as the cause.<\/p>\n
If the answer to all of that is nothing is wrong, you are on the right plan already.<\/p>\n
Every plan we run includes daily offsite backups, security updates, and uptime monitoring, because that is the part that actually protects you. The cheapest hosting is the one that is never down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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