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Reasons why you need to upgrade your Hosting plan?

by Devilfish168
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Basically I believe most of us here start the basic package in any hosting companies out there.

What I'm curious.

What are the reasons which need us to upgrade?

Of course one thing is Traffic. Everyone knows heavy traffic go their site. More traffic = more sales.

Another reasons I curious also depend how many contents you post????

let say your site got 10k to even 20k posts, contents ...

sooner or later also will affect?? and need to upgrade your hosting plan??
( note , these posts just words and one image per post, Not massive images included and videos per post. )
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  • Profile picture of the author DrForum
    Originally Posted by Devilfish168 View Post

    Basically I believe most of us here start the basic package in any hosting companies out there.

    What I'm curious.

    What are the reasons which need us to upgrade?

    Of course one thing is Traffic. Everyone knows heavy traffic go their site. More traffic = more sales.

    Another reasons I curious also depend how many contents you post????

    let say your site got 10k to even 20k posts, contents ...

    sooner or later also will affect?? and need to upgrade your hosting plan??
    ( note , these posts just words and one image per post, Not massive images included and videos per post. )
    I can say that the choice to either upgrade or still remain in your package is how much your website is and the content you are having. If your site is not interactive at all and hence you have no plans to monetize it, then you need not to upgrade. However, you need to upgrade on the other hand if at all you realize that the content and traffic is overpowering the current package that you have. Do not be in a hurry to upgrade, first see the need and spare those few dollars. Just upgrade where necessary.
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    • Profile picture of the author TheGMa
      Devilsfish, a web host upgrade has to do with the following:

      1. How much broadband you need
      2. How many goodies you want to buy from the web host vs getting your own
      3. Getting a merchant account
      4. How many domain email accounts you want to juggle in Outlook

      That's about it.

      Unless you have a roaring business with multiple employees who need email accounts, a bajilion pages requiring your own merchant account, and enough fancy graphics to blow Steven Spielberg's mind, don't worry about it.

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      • Profile picture of the author Devilfish168
        hmm ok...

        because I pay for a basic plan...
        and always get server load ...

        so chat with my host support

        they told me maybe can reduce some load on my site
        or upgrade the plan.

        I reduce the load but irony after one week..or so as I every day add contents

        it give warning again so no choice I upgrade the plan.
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        • Profile picture of the author TheGMa
          Ah. You have a very limited plan and are eating up broadband & server space beyond the amount you've been allocated.

          Have you checked to see exactly what you bought, and check that against the total MB you are using? Plain files don't add up to much. On the other hand, images add up very quickly, especially if they are not optimized.

          Search 'how to optimize images' so they use fewer bytes. There's a size difference between image types - .jpg, .gif (almost obsolete now), .pln, vector, animated ...)

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        • Profile picture of the author David Beroff
          Originally Posted by Devilfish168 View Post

          I pay for a basic plan...
          and always get server load ...
          Typically lower priced hosting plans place many customers on the same server, so everyone's combined activity does add up to slow down everyone else.
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  • Profile picture of the author aars14
    Basically its not the traffic due to which u need to upgrade your hosting, rather using the server resources (how many people online at a time, how much are downloading from your site, how much load your site is putting on server)
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  • Profile picture of the author chaotic squid
    I started out with basic shared hosting (EIG) for about 2 years. About a year ago I switch to managed WordPress VPS hosting and haven't looked back.

    Some pain points I had of cheap shared hosting

    - My site speeds were constantly throttled (sometimes fast sometimes slow)
    - I found cPanel kinda difficult to navigate and the UI of the user dashboard was clunky
    - A few times I contacted support about WordPress related issues. Basically told me that they have no knowledge of WordPress and couldn't help me.
    - Overall support was alright but talking to someone was like calling your cable company (generic canned responses)
    - Last straw was when one of my sites got hacked and they did nothing to help me.

    All those issues were solved when I switched to managed VPS. I pay a lot more now, but dealing with web hosting now is actually a joy and it's had a positive impact on my business.

    Many other reasons to upgrade besides just traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author sprucevn
    1. Ensure stability, speed and uptime
    2. Be able to run resource intensive applications
    3. Direct access to the server
    4. Develop multi-site
    5. Gain success business
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  • Profile picture of the author megamind22
    I think the reason is obvious. When your website is getting high volume of traffic then is only normal to upgrade from Baby or shared package to VSL server so as not to slow down your website page load speed.

    This I speak from personal experience cause I was getting about 2k - 3k visitors per day to my news site till I got an email from my hosting company to upgrade from shared server/hosting to a more higher package. It all depends on the factors on your website really.
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