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Shared Hosting VS VPS
mywebhosting
Member, Host Rep
in Help
I see that most of the web hosting companies are giving more resources for RAM and CPU if we pay additional money in their shared hosting plans. If they offer like this, is it better to upgrade to shared hosting plan with more resources than shifting to VPS if the website has grown the allocated resources in current shared hosting plan.
Thanked by 1JasonM
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if you only run PHP then maybe, and shared hosting saves a lot overhead
Yes, especially if you run WP site, with dozen of fat plugins like "popular posts" which uses a huge chunk of CPU / RAM then 1CPU and 1GB RAM on shared hosting plans are quite insufficient once your get site visitors. So additional CPU boost is required and its better than migrating to VPS (as you'll have to pay for cPanel licence fees, plus manage the vps yourself)
The reason resources at VPS cost more because they are not shared or not as shared.
Lots of Webhosting are sharing resources that's why they can get such cheap prices for the specs. Oversharing sometimes. In this case, you don't even know if their Advertised 1 GB ram will be 1 GB because they are shared so much.
Going to VPS always is going to be an upgrade.