When is the time to move from a shared hosting?

Once you make a substantial amount of money with your site you should consider to get your own server.

Above $10,000 profit per month it would be stupid to try to save $100 to $800 for a dedicated server. Some people would even suggest to get a dedicated server once your profit is above $2,500 a month.

It mainly depends on your circumstances and on your cash flow but above a certain point the expense for a dedicated server becomes negligible and the risk would be too great if you would rely on a shared server.

You would consider to upgrade to dedicated server if you getting alot of traffic and if you selling alot of staff, if you have high quantity members (for example forum) or larger database of registered customers. I would say anything on larger scale will work faster on dedicated server. Also you never know who you sharing with, maybe some illegal websites. You may never find out who you sharing with, but Google know everything, all IP's

You could always get make the step up to a VPS rather than going crazy and getting a full Dedicated Server.

I use a VPS primarily for the extra control it gives me over my sites. It's a little more costly than shared hosting sure, but for me, I couldn't go back to shared. I'm getting much faster page loads with my VPS.

It depends on the company. Companies that offer features on shared/reseller hosting such as commercial software, backup solutions etc would be an extra cost when leaving shared hosting. In most cases, staying away from the "unlimited" everything companies would be a good start. You're actually far more limited than you think..

You'll get 50 people here tell you to just get a VPS or dedicated server however, the majority of them won't be able to explain resource usage, server management etc etc. They're just repeating what they heard someone else say.

Interesting post, shared hosting is becoming more UN-reliable than it was in the past, there is evidence that your website might actually be penalized when compared with a competitor that has better resources, (page load) (custom name servers) (network resources) all these things can influence how well your website actually would rank in terms of traffic.

If you can afford to pay more for hosting, its a good investment, but only if you can afford to pay more, server costs should be a part of operating a business just like rent would be for a brick and mortar store.

If you cannot afford the rent you should not be trying to open a business.

Conversely, speaking the idea that you need to make a certain amount of money per month before you upgrade your digital marketplace, is just not sound advice

It works for me? As I'm sure it works for most people..

Do you like my little response there to avoid answering a question I don't know the answer too

No but being serious, I don't see the point in over complicating something.. I do use root access, from there I can do everything I need to do.

I just find VPS's are a lot more reliable and faster than shared hosting

These are all good answers. I think it depends.


Is this your sole business or a side income?


I think you should move as soon as you can afford it.


If it's just a side income, move when your site covers the costs.


Example: If you make $150 off of AdSense every month...


Move to a dedicated server and pay for it out of AdSense earnings.

Nothing but dedicated server is the best.

I am a Flippa seller and I have a bunch of unused databases on my shared Hostgator host. According to the support, this is slowing down my load times. I am ready to move my essential websites to a different server and looking for a good VPS solution right now.

My load times are becoming truly bad, so I think it's time for me to move to VPS.

If your site is a WordPress blog, there are also services like WPEngine that provide speed and reliability but not the hassles of running your own server.

The only reason it ends up being difficult to gauge when you should shift is because of the dodgy "Unlimited (but not really)" offer that many hosts sell but can't really deliver.

The reality is that any so called "unlimited" shared host will suspend your account if you tax the server too much. But because they give you no guidelines, you never know when you're reaching the line.

So my advice is to switch to a shared host that is up front with you about exactly what resources you have allocated to you.

For me, after Hostgator suddenly suspended my account without warning, I switched to Host Duplex and have been extremely happy with them ever since.

I was able to watch how much of our allocated resources we were using, and then seamlessly upgrade from one shared hosting level to another, then up to a VPS and from one level to another as we grew.

There was absolutely no down time, and never again will I wake up to a no warning suspension.

So in short, your host should be giving you all the information you need to know if you're on the right setup or not.

If they don't give you that information, switch to a host that does.

When your site needs it, you will know when you see your bandwidth at a peak.

Being moved to some dedicated server will be the subsequent rational step from finding the website located by the shared hosting surroundings. By sharing web hosting, you'll find frequently many different internet sites, from time to time thousands, which can be being located for a passing fancy server. If any one particular site commences needing further bandwidth, next all the sites that have been hosted by means of that one server are going to function sluggish or even might crash due to unexpected anxiety around the server. Despite the fact that the shared hosting setting will cost less, in case consistency is necessary, the people will probably moving to some dedicated server.