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Any reason to keep VPS over shared hosting if traffic is Low?

by MarketingVet09
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Hi, I was expecting to have a bunch of traffic, but I wont be having much. I got a hostgator VPS for $49.95 a month. I know I will not need this as far as performance, but would their be any other reasons to keep it instead of downgrading to a 9.95 a month shared hosting? I probably wont be running any custom scripts and things like that.. But this will be my business so I will want my hosting as reliable and safe as possible, but if paying an extra $40 a month is unpractical and not neccessary, let me know.

thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author nerokon
    I do not see any reasons to pay that extra money if you will not be using that much resource for at least next 6 months. you can use that extra money to advertize your site or other useful means and you can move to vps again at any time when you will be needed.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jim Schaub
    I agree with nerokon.
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  • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
    Nah; you may as well downgrade to "shared hosting", then. No sense in paying out more than what you need to, eh.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lothar Evers
    Originally Posted by woah316 View Post

    Hi, I was expecting to have a bunch of traffic, but I wont be having much. I got a hostgator VPS for $49.95 a month. I know I will not need this as far as performance, but would their be any other reasons to keep it instead of downgrading to a 9.95 a month shared hosting? I probably wont be running any custom scripts and things like that.. But this will be my business so I will want my hosting as reliable and safe as possible, but if paying an extra $40 a month is unpractical and not neccessary, let me know.
    thanks
    No need for a VPS with this traffic...
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  • Profile picture of the author topcaller
    I recently got rid of my VPS after 8 months. I should have done it after month 1.

    Wishful thinking that I was gong to crush it on a certain project, haha. Wont make that mistake again.
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    • Profile picture of the author spearce000
      Originally Posted by Nick Zopp View Post

      I recently got rid of my VPS after 8 months. I should have done it after month 1.

      Wishful thinking that I was gong to crush it on a certain project, haha. Wont make that mistake again.
      Same here. The thing about hosting with a company that offers both shared hosting and VPS hosting (like hostgator) is it's no trouble at all to move between the two. You can always go back to a VPS if things pick up dramatically.
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