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Shared Hosting, VPS or Dedicated Server? Print

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Choosing honestly.

SHARED HOSTING

Your site runs alongside others on one server, with your own account and limits.

Suits: almost every small business site, brochure sites, most shops, most WordPress.

VPS

A portion of a server allocated to you, with your own operating system and root access.

Suits: applications needing software we cannot install on shared, genuinely heavy sites, developers wanting control.

DEDICATED SERVER

An entire machine.

Suits: very high traffic, specific compliance requirements, running many sites at scale.

WHAT MOST PEOPLE ASKING ACTUALLY NEED

A larger shared plan, or a fixable performance problem.

Most enquiries about VPS come from slowness that caching would resolve.

THE HONEST QUESTION

Do you need control, or do you need resources?

If resources, a larger shared plan is simpler and cheaper.

If control, that is what a VPS is for.

ASK US

Open a Sales ticket describing what you run.


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