It is a widespread concern to know when you have to upgrade your shared hosting package. But before moving forward let’s take a minute to understand these both type of hosting.
Shared Hosting
Shared Hosting is the most common and affordable web hosting option available. Shared hosting means multiple users share one physical server and it’s resources. It is usually recommended for the websites that don’t receive a large amount of incoming traffic.
VPS Hosting
A VPS (Virtual Private Server) is a shared server platform with all the features of a dedicated server. One server is partitioned into server multiple virtual machines (VM) using a virtualizor software, and each VM has its operating system. The user of VPS has full access and administrative privileges to access along with its dedicated resources.
5 Reasons to upgrade from Shared Hosting to VPS Hosting
- When you receive a large amount of incoming traffic to your website
When your website is getting hundreds and thousands of hits per day, it is time for an upgrade. Since more incoming traffic can decrease the performance of website upgrading to VPS Hosting is the best option.
2. Customization
Since you have a specific amount of resources like RAM or CPU core in shared hosting there is no possibility to increase them as per your usage. As your application requires more resources, then it is advisable to move to a VPS Hosting platform to overcome this limitation. With VPS Hosting you can upgrade- RAM, Hard disk Space, Operating system, and control panel. VPS Hosting gives you the facility upgrade or downgrade whenever required.
3. Full Administrative rights
There may be some cases when you require installing some additional software, tools, and modules for your application. In shared hosting, you won’t be able to perform these operations because of the administrative rights. However, you can do the same in VPS Hosting. VPS Hosting provides you full root access for Linux and “administrator” access for Windows Server.
4. Security
Shared hosting servers are secured and protected but since there is a huge amount of data and sharing of resources, shared hosting is often prone to a security breach and abusive activities by hackers. However with VPS Hosting you can install additional security measures like firewalls, security and access rights on your own to protect and secure your server.
5. When you want to expand your business
Your business expansion plans may want you to upgrade since you might be expecting a huge amount of traffic if you own an e-commerce site or a website for business purpose and over the time you realize that you have to add more and more to your website. As a result, your website will get more and more traffic. It will be an issue with the shared hosting however you can upgrade to VPS when the right time comes.
Upgrading your shared hosting to a VPS Hosting is an easy task and beneficial to you when you have the scenarios mentioned above. With the help of an active 24/7 Support services, your migration would be easy to manage and handle. Like all aspects of your business, it is essential to make a planned and wise decision for choosing a right hosting package for your business to excel.
