Virtual hosting is a basic service where all settings are made through the control panel; they are different, but they all have basic functionality. For example, to host a website, you need to upload files to the server using a file manager, unpack the archive into the root folder of the web server and import the sql file into the new database. After which you adjust the php version, update database access in the configuration file and configure the ssl certificate so that your site is accessible via the https protocol.
Next, if resources or hosting capabilities become insufficient for you, you migrate the site to a VPS server, for which you can increase the resources required by the site.
Everything is clear here, but in the hosting services market many have come across several types of hosting, such as:
- Regular - business card website.
- Powerful - website.
- Very powerful - apparently for a powerful site.
And here the question arises: where is the line between a business card - powerful and very powerful hosting. However, the price of these services differs significantly.
As a result, the client has a reasonable question: how to understand the proportion of the increase in powerful hosting in price to the allocated resources. The answer is obvious - it's just marketing, and we will now explain why having a type of hosting power is unprofitable:
The first is that when the declared memory for php begins to be insufficient, most likely powerful hosting will not do much for your site, given the difference in price and comparison with a VPS server.
Second, regardless of the power of a particular hosting, you will still be on the same control panel, some kind of unified structural solution, which, in the event of an unsuccessful update, will make all sites on it unavailable, unlike VPS.
Third - measuring this very power for which you will pay is very, very difficult since you still will not have full root access to the server.
Fourth - the load or network attacks on several other client sites will drag down yours, no matter how powerful it is, it is still common.
We recommend choosing hosting based on the following criteria:
- The tariff indicates the amount of memory allocated for the PHP handler.
- All modern hosting on SSD, in the case of a server controller with a cache accelerator (for example, like ours) - the speed increases several times, although this is no longer necessary as it was with HDD drives.
- Convenient and reliable control panel, in our case we use Plesk - it compares favorably with the others by having many years of experience (one of the first hosting panels) and the reliability and convenience of the interface.
To summarize, if your site is choking on a regular hosting, try installing an empty CMS and checking its speed; a large number of sites assembled from modules duplicate the same scripts, which leads to its slow operation. Well, if everything is in order and you are sure that you do not have enough resources, just transfer the site to a virtual server; if you have a small number of sites, you don’t even need a control panel, you can order a ready-made web stack from our catalog of pre-configured assemblies.