It is almost more than a year, I am using the Shared hosting server from Hostgator for blog- yourdigitalspace.com.Last two days it has used more that 25% CPU..

I think it is the right times to shift to VPS. I am planning to use either Hostgator VPS, Linode or Knownhost.

Which you thinks the best for VPS ?

I have one blog on the shared hosting which is getting around 2000 UV’s a day and is currently earning me around $300 a month.

My hosting plan expires in a couple of days and I am considering upgrading to a VPS plan.

I have spoken to their tech support and I have to move the sites to the new server myself. I am actually a computer technition and manage a few Small Business Servers but have no experience with VPS hosting.

I’m just wondering whether upgrading the plan is going to solve my errors and will I notice a performance increase.

I am just worried about moving my blog as it is starting to make some nice money for me.

Although I also think that I could be missing out on more money buy not upgrading to a VPS!

I would just install it manually. Takes 5 minutes, instead of 5 seconds, but not a big deal.

That is right. If you can afford, go with a VPS or dedicated.

Thanks Mate !

I highly recommend to spend money on your infrastructure so that these can be able to tackle any situation easily.

Nice to see that you are growing.

Would love to see your research result about the hosting company and let us know.

May I request you to do a post on keyword research and using Google’s keyword tool.

My question for Q&A is: How do you market your services when the market is not ready yet?!!!

Thanks.

My question is: Is it a smart move for a techlexic like me to test idea(s) for a blog on wordpress.com and then migrate to wordpress.org platform later?

I’m done updating some websites because I’m not motivated anymore. And I can’t find why, I just don’t want to. Any idea or tip on how to get motivated for something we really do for MONEY? Just “money” isn’t motivating enough.

Rui

PS: portugueses no seu melhor, hehehe 🙂

I am contemplating switching to VPS for one of my websites, but so far we don’t have any problems with our host, pretty fast all the time, and rarely crashes, but the reason we want to switch is to avoid things like you said about having one of the sharing sites crash things in the future.

I use HostGator for one of my clients, and they are pretty good, their shared hosting is not that great though.

I to love Hostgator. I always get top notch service. They even answer my really dumb questions with out making me feel stupid.

However, there’s one problem I have with hostgator VPS hosting is that they do not have Fatantisco installed and I can’t install my website directly within 5 second 🙁

Any advice on that?

Regards,
Winson Yeung

I don’t like reseller accounts too

Even with these great webhosts, we should have a VPS and dedicated server hosting?

I have been with 2 others major hosts and what separates hostgator is their support. Email replays are instant, round the clock.

🙂

I want to move to dedicated server, but I have not make enough money with the blog yet. Huh…

I don’t like reseller accounts.

Keep in mind most big companies do all the tech part for you though. You just need to send them the money 🙂 .

A VPS is the middle way between shared hosting and dedicated server. On a VPS you’ll share your server with far fewer people (say 4 or 10), and you’ll also have access to more functionalities (e.g, shell access).

Most hosting companies offer 100% managed solutions these days, since they know the average customer won’t want to dabble with these things.

just as you said, i faced many troubles because of being hosted along other websites, now that you encouraged me i guess i will take that step soon

the main thing that holds me back is that media temple doesn’t give any support for the upgrade, the person is 100% responsible for the move

You will have to keep Apache, PHP, the kernel and everything else updated. Monitor your server logs, apache logs, etc.

It is fun to learn all that, and the performance benefits are big, but just good to keep in mind 🙂

For entry level sites its worth keeping it on a shared server. But once it stats picking up a VPS is a must.

Also on a shared hosting account you could have many more problems then the ones mentioned above.

Before you choose any hosting provider make sure to ask them how many shared hosting clients they have per server and also the type of server.

There are many servers that can handle massive loads of shared hosting clients and this means that you would not have any problems with your website

How about a reseller?

In my opinion the money aspect is far more important than the traffic one.

What if your website only gets 50,000 visits per month, but makes $5,000 monthly? According to the advice of your friend you should keep that site on a shared hosting, which I think would be crazy.

At least I’m on Hostgator now. That was a step up.

Interesting Post. I’m currently on shared hosting and soon i will be on vpn 🙂 !! Thanks !!

Thanks for this great answer Daniel.

~Dev

I contacted my hosting provider and told me there might be a malware and I was advised to restore my files to a previous date in order to remove it. Fortunately it worked and FORTUNATELY my database was not affected.

I guess I will be considering a dedicated hosting as soon as I am able to. Thanks.