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When to Upgrade to a Virtual Private Server (VPS)
By Editorial Staff
Starting an online business or launching a website often begins with a shared hosting plan or a website builder that provides shared hosting, like Wix or Squarespace. It’s affordable, easy to use, and perfect for beginners. But as your website gains traction, that once-reliable shared hosting plan can start feeling like a tiny, overcrowded apartment. Your business is growing, but your hosting isn’t keeping up.
So, when should you upgrade to a Virtual Private Server (VPS)? A VPS offers more power, flexibility, and reliability than shared hosting. But knowing when to make the switch can be tricky. Let’s break it down with real-world examples.
1. Your Business is Growing
The most obvious sign that you should upgrade from a shared hosting plan to a VPS is when your business/website begins to grow. As our business starts growing, we are going to start seeing a lot more traffic to our website – afterall, our website is the face of our brand in this modern age. Now as traffic increases, a shared hosting plan will start becoming an issue. Those visitors you worked so hard to bring to your site will start seeing longer load times and will likely not have the patience to stay. With a VPS, you will be able to ensure that your website has the resources required for the traffic you are seeing!
2. You are seeing Performance Issues
The next sign that you should upgrade to a VPS is if you are seeing issues with your website’s performance. To understand how to measure your website’s performance check out this post – ‘How Website Performance Is Measured’. Now there are some things you can do to speed up your website before changing your hosting service (“see how to improve website performance blog”), but if nothing is helping it is time to upgrade.
3. Down Time is a High Risk for your Website
When we first get our websites up and running, we expect that our site will be up all the time for all the world to see. This, unfortunately, is not the reality of web hosting. Websites do go down, servers do run into issues. Nobody wants their website to be down, but it is just something that happens. Different hosting providers will guarantee various Uptime percentages. As you shop around, you may see things like “99.9% uptime guarantee” or “99.99% uptime guarantee”. The best way to understand the difference between these guarantees is by putting these percentages into the amount of time a website would be down in a given year. For example, with the 99.9% uptime package – they are saying that your website may be down for as long as 8.75 hours in a year. When you are running a high volume e-commerce store or a global business, a matter of 8.75 hours could mean $1000’s of dollars of revenue – especially if downtime coincides with a major shopping day like Black Friday or Cyber Monday. So if this applies to you, and down time is a risk – it is time to upgrade to a reliable VPS that guarantees a high uptime.
4. Running low on Resources
Most shared hosting plans come with resources enough to run a basic website that sees 2000-3000 visitors a day at the most. To check your sites resource usage, you should typically be able to have a look at your hosting providers dashboard/console. If you start to see that either your website is becoming more complex and requires more storage, processing or RAM or your traffic is increasing, this means that the resources that your shared hosting plan comes with are simply not cutting it. It is time to upgrade to a VPS that ensures more resources for your website’s needs
5. Increased Security Needs
With shared hosting plans, our sites are usually squeezed in to a server with 100’s of other websites. Although shared hosting providers will do their best to segregate their users, the reality is that there is an increased security risk that comes with your site being hosted alongside other sites. It is not uncommon for a security breach on one website to affect the entire physical server, which means that a breach on another website can affect your website! If your website is dealing with sensitive customer data or taking payments, this type of security risk is quite significant. With a VPS, you will be guaranteed to be isolated from other sites and additionally, most VPS plans come with improved security options! So if your site has these types of security requirements, an upgrade to a VPS is a great option.
Conclusion - VPS is the Next Step
Overall, a shared hosting plan is a great place to start when we begin our business’s online journey, but we can quickly outgrow it as our business and website’s demands grow. A VPS is a great next step up from a shared hosting plan that can solve many of the deficiencies of shared hosting without having to step up to a dedicated server. To understand which VPS plan might be right for check-out Right Servers Managed VPS.
Right Servers can help you handle all the technical complexities of hosting so you can focus on what truly matters—growing your business. Whether you need a single website managed or a complex solution, our expert team has you covered. Our solutions provide peace of mind and, most importantly, give you back your time. Explore our comprehensive Managed Hosting Solutions or discover our popular Managed VPS options. With over 18 years in business, we offer tailored solutions that fit your needs and budget. Reach out to us at sales@rightservers.com, and let’s build success together. We treat our clients like partners because we’re entrepreneurs too.
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