Any hostings that could upgrade to VPS or Dedicated without any downtimes?

by simonz
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Hi,

I wonder is there any hosting that I could update anytime from shared hosting to VPS or Dedicated Servers without having downtime for my websites? It shouldn't change nameservers while changing the shared hosting, because that's the main problem which may cause the downtime.

I talked to hostgator support, they said, that there would be no problem, only that I would need to change the nameservers.

So I wonder if there are any hosting providers that provides solution for that.

I need it, because I have becoming projects, that might get viral. I don't have enough budget to buy VPS or Dedicated immediately, because it's just to risky. I am not sure if they will become viral, you know. But if they will, I want to be prepared to upgrade plans on my hosting and to prevent any downtimes.

Please let me know if you have any experience or ideas on it.
#dedicated #downtimes #hostings #upgrade #vps
  • Profile picture of the author oneyouki1984
    GoDaddy VPS start at like $30/month. I would just go with that.

    Additionally, banking on a one time viral marketing plan isn't smart. If something you have DOES go viral and you miss that opportunity because your site goes down, just upgrade to VPS then. And if you can't duplicate it - then you simply had a one time lucky strike that is not worth getting upset over.
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    • Profile picture of the author simonz
      It seems like you didn't get what I am asking. Yes, there are lot of good choices for VPS, but I wasn't asking for who to choose.

      I want to be ready for that "one time lucky strike" and to not have any downtimes while on it, but to start with a simple shared hosting.
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  • Profile picture of the author Neil Day
    Hey simoniz

    One persons experience with a host may not necessary be one that everyone else experiences. by this, I mean probably best to contact the support people at any hosts that take your fancy and ask them the question. Far better to get the answer from the horses mouth. At least, if you do come across any problems after gaining assurances from them, you should stand to gain some form of compensation if it impacts any business.

    Cheers

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    • Profile picture of the author simonz
      Hi Neil,

      I respect your answer, thank you! I just thought someone will share their knowledge about that, maybe someone will share what hostings do provide that.

      Also maybe this will be a good idea to improve their service for some hosting providers. A lot of people says that hostgator is the best hosting, however, they don't have a solution for this problem. So maybe this can be an advantage for other hosts.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    only that I would need to change the nameservers.
    When you change hosting accts you do need to change the DNS...but it doesn't have to be "downtime".

    I think you are imagining a problem where there is none - the host you mention in your post above has the info you need on the site. It tells you how to change accts without disrupting your site.

    Switching Web Hosts Without Downtime - HostGator

    If you follow those instructions your site will load from the original acct while the new accts is propagating. Your site will keep working for visitors and will gradually switch to the new host as the DNS propagates. Easy peasy.
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    • Profile picture of the author simonz
      That's a good point here.

      However there can still be some downtimes during the 48 hours period. I've experienced it on my own and I have read others that experience too. Though downtimes are short (in my experience up to few hours), they still are downtimes, which are very bad for the website if it is going viral that moment.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jesus Perez
    If you need this for upcoming projects, then you need to forget about shared hosting. Moving from multi-tenant server to a single-tenant server always requires a switch in nameservers since the actual server is being changed. The only way to reduce the nameserver downtime is to drop your TTL in DNS to 5 minutes 1 week before the anticipated traffic spike.

    If you want true instant scaling at a moment's notice, you need cloud hosting. That's the only way to pull off your requirement. Get ready to pay a lot more, too.
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    • Profile picture of the author simonz
      The cost of it is the only problem here.

      You say that moving from shared server to dedi or vps server always requires a switch in nameservers.

      What about if shared hosting would have an unique nameservers before, and later there would be changed only the IP for nameservers? How do you think would that cause any downtimes?

      Also what's about TTL, is it safe to change it from 24h to 5min? Can you tell more about it?

      Thank you for your time answering this!
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  • Profile picture of the author SEOlover
    I'd advise you to use servers from time-tested hosts, I mean hostingsource.com and a2hosting.com.
    Their deals are full of useful resources and uptime is high and network is fully-redundant.
    Support is active for 24 hours.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jesus Perez
    Each shared hosting server could have 500 customers using the same nameserver. If they let you keep the nameserver for your new VPS/Dedicated server, then 499 other people need to change their nameserver to accommodate you. Not very realistic or fair in a hosting environment.

    TTL can be changed to 5 minutes or 1 minute or even 30 seconds granted you don't keep it like that for long because it creates many DNS queries for your DNS provider. You can probably change it 3 days before and be ready in time. There are many articles that explain it online so I won't bother repeating the information. Here's one: https://www.dnswatch.info/articles/dns-update
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    • Profile picture of the author simonz
      Yes, each hosting COULD have 500 customers with the same nameserver, but not each of it has. It depends on hosting. I figured it out that there are hostings that can create unique nameservers for shared hosting service, if I ask to.

      I know it's not hard to do this and it doesn't take many more resources. If they really want to get a client and keep him, they will do it for you.

      Thank you for info about TTL.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    If I am reading your question right I can't believe its taken this long to get an answer [edit...I stand corrected by my reading - Jesus Perez has already mentioned cloud]

    If you want to be able to throttle up and throttle down due to viral traffic changes then it seems obvious to me you want a cloud infrastrucutre

    GoogleCloud
    Amazon AWS
    IBM's Bluemix
    DigitalOcean
    Microsoft's Azure

    Some of these even have free tiers. each one takes a little to learn and setup but no nameservers or any other delay in switching accounts over.

    However maybe I am reading your question wrong.
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  • Profile picture of the author Antony Micheal
    you could upgrade from shared hosting to a managed vps server:
    When you get more than a few hundred visits per day
    If you are running an ecommerce website
    When you need 99.9% uptime
    If you are running wordpress
    When you want better security and performance
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  • Profile picture of the author luciesmazanska
    Two month ago i upgrade my hosting to dedicated hosting I talked to hostgator support, they said, that there would be no problem, only that I would need to change the nameservers.
    i think Bluehost, FatCow can also provide these services.
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  • Profile picture of the author David Waldron
    I would really consider using a cloud provider such as Amazon AWS for your projects. If you don't know enough to config a good Linux server you can easily find someone on Upwork to do it for you.

    Prices start out at $5-7 a month and you can expand the server up to huge ram and space pretty quickly on demand. Also having access to Load Balancers and RDS can make your projects really stable.

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    Originally Posted by simonz View Post

    Hi,

    I wonder is there any hosting that I could update anytime from shared hosting to VPS or Dedicated Servers without having downtime for my websites? It shouldn't change nameservers while changing the shared hosting, because that's the main problem which may cause the downtime.

    I talked to hostgator support, they said, that there would be no problem, only that I would need to change the nameservers.

    So I wonder if there are any hosting providers that provides solution for that.

    I need it, because I have becoming projects, that might get viral. I don't have enough budget to buy VPS or Dedicated immediately, because it's just to risky. I am not sure if they will become viral, you know. But if they will, I want to be prepared to upgrade plans on my hosting and to prevent any downtimes.

    Please let me know if you have any experience or ideas on it.
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  • Profile picture of the author robin667
    only one trimaxo hosting that sit!!
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  • Profile picture of the author VeronicaSmith
    Hi Simonz,
    Migration of hosting can be successful without any downtime if it's done carefully. I've experienced it with znetlive, they offer zero downtime while switching your servers. Your website keeps running on existing server while it's getting moved to another server.
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  • Profile picture of the author Grazina
    VPS accounts from QHoster.com and Hostsailor.com can be good for meeting all your needs, the OP.
    Prices are low and support is online around the clock. Plans have many useful resources to run websites in a successful manner.
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  • Profile picture of the author IMMer1975
    As others have pointed out, the transfer itself is easy, its the potential for DNS downtime.

    This is how I manage it:

    1. Open a free account with cloudflare and have them manage your DNS. You should anyway cos they're awesome and have a ton of value.

    2. Transfer your site to new host.

    3. Login to cloudflare and point to your new server. INSTANT. no downtime or DNS propagation needed.

    We use that all the time - it's great for failover too. If your host goes down, just point it to your live backup site and you're back in business.
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  • Profile picture of the author vps9
    There are very less hosts available who can upgrade VPS or dedicated server with no downtime or less downtime. highly configured hosting servers take some time to upgrade. you will find atleast 1% Of downtime. Which is fair enough to make the service work without any hiccups.
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  • Profile picture of the author David Jones42
    hostgator, bluehost like sever are allow to upgrade any time your server but it takes time because shared and vps both are have different configuration.
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  • Profile picture of the author Oseana
    you can rely on ctrlswitches.com , very affordable managed web hosting services at very low price.
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