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For just a WordPress site, is shared hosting a better bang for your buck than a VPS?
louiejordan
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I'm thinking of moving my WordPress site from VPS to shared hosting plan with a reputable provider. For a WordPress site, the VPS is way more expensive, but doesn't seem to offer any real advantages.
Am I on the right track? What about you guys—shared hosting or VPS for your builds?
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Yes.
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Depends entirely on your traffic. If its a simple site, yes, definitely. If its a WordPress site with massive traffic, 10k plus visitors a month, vps is better as it will be more responsive, WP is a pig.
Even for medium sized WP sites, I still think a solid shared hosting provider is better. You wont have to deal with taking care of the backend, which is a bitch on WP when you add plugins, themes...etc... For large to very large WP sites, obviously a VPS or dedi as needed is the better choice.
As @jfreak53 said it depends on your traffic and the type of website. If it is a simple static website then with caching you can easily host it on a shared hosting. But if it is a dynamic website with a lot of traffic better use a vps for handling all that traffic.
Also another thing to keep in mind is which one is easier for you if you are not well versed in self managing go with shared hosting and if you have budget you can get managed hosting for high traffic website as well.
With some providers now offering redis, thereby making object caching available, I think you get everything needed for wordpress within shared hosting plans.
Better choose a semi-dedicated plan (shared hosting with very high limits in CPU/RAM etc).
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I think you are not wrong with either option. VPS offers you greater flexibility and control. But with shared hosting you have peace of mind. In your case if you have less visitors and page size is less than go with shared. If your site is heavy than stay with VPS itself!! I also recommend setting up nginx fastcgi cache or lscache in nginx or ols.
Usually yes. If you go with @labze and his Hostbrr he offer high specs shared packages. For most of the WP websites it should be super.
But if you have a news website with 100.000 visitors daily and 1 mil views, then it's a different story.
For most of the WP websites, a shared hosting with proper cache plugin is alright.
100% for small sites.
DA or Cpanel comes with many bells and whistles so you don't need to bother about anything.
but if its a big sites where provider don't want to keep your site in their shared/reseller then vps is option.
Unless you are seriously managing things yourself and the website isn't that hungry, I'd say that going with shared hosting is the right call.
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Thanks, y'all! I've got a much clearer picture of what I need now.
I know one blogger who from the very start used 5 USD a month droplet.
He grown very quickly with monthly traffic touching 6+ million pageviews and generating solid revenue from info blogs. He quickly became authority in his industry and ranked #1 for most search terms....
He never upgraded to larger plans as proper caching worked just fine for him.
I have tested various wordpress setups and I can assure you that good shared webhosting environment work just fine if your are not using n different plugins.....
Popular web hosts levy limits like inode limit (file no.) and stupid read write restrictions which makes wp admin painfully slow after certain time period..... This is the very reason VPS is just perfect if you've configured it right..... But if you can find a perfect webhost which configures everything for you and don't overload servers with thousands of clients... then go with shared webhosting 😀
one advantage with VPS is that you control the environment
With shared hosting, it's a certain database version, a certain web server, a certain firewall, etc
You'll build the websites to work with this
Your WP cache & redirect plugins etc will work with that certain web server/reverse proxy setup etc
So when you migrate, struggle
With a VPS, you can replicate the exact env and therefore you're never locked in
100% YES!
Many shared hosting providers who provide LS+LSCache+Redis/memcache are the best providers for WordPress sites! @labze Hostbrr gives 4GB of RAM per account. This type of setup can easily let you scale your blog to over 100K visitor a month.
If you can ship your site static, host it free on Cloudfare