Have You Outgrown Shared Hosting?

Is it time to leave shared hosting and head for the cloud?
Shared hosting is a great solution for startups getting their website off the ground. With a low price tag of as little as 99p, a shared platform gives you the leg up you need to get online. However, when you’re up and running in business, you may start to feel like a big fish in a little pond…
So when is it time to consider moving on?
Whilst shared hosting is great for when your business website is in its early stages, hopefully the time will come when things start to gather momentum, and your website should find itself with a higher volume of visitors, putting a bigger strain on your limited resources.
It’s important to remember that shared hosting is just that: shared. Your website data is stored on a machine which is shared by hundreds of other budding entrepreneurs trying to break into a market, meaning that when one website has a period of high traffic, other sites on the server can become slow and unresponsive as all of the machine’s bandwidth is being drained by one greedy site.
What exactly is a Virtual Private Server anyway?
A Virtual Private Server (VPS) gives your your own slice of a dedicated machine to do with as you please. This means that within a dedicated server you’ll have your own allocated ‘virtual’ server. Although you technically still share the physical server machine, your allocated resources are only used by you, so no other website uses the power, speed and performance you pay for.
Here are a few VPS hosting benefits:

• VPS hosting is the perfect option for small businesses who are looking to keep their costs down while reaping the benefits of being in control of their own virtual server.
• Our VPS cloud servers are self-healing, meaning that should anything go wrong your data will automatically be transferred onto another machine without any downtime. Reliable hosting is essential in online businesses that never sleep!
• VPS can be set up in minutes with Windows or Linux, so there’s no waiting around to begin world business domination…
• You take the reins with a VPS; you can customise your server to meet your needs, meaning that you’ll only pay for what you want or need. Our VPS are fully scalable and adjustable so you can add resources as and when you need them!
• Running a VPS can seem like a daunting prospect, but with VPS.net you’ll get 24/7/365 support to help you out should you be struggling with anything or just want a bit of advice.

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