Shared hosting, VPS or cloud: what your website actually needs

Shared hosting is fine for a brochure site. It is cheap, it is managed, and nobody needs to log in to a server.

The moment a site takes orders, runs a queue, sends a lot of email or gets a traffic spike from an ad campaign, shared hosting starts to hurt. Slow pages, failed cron jobs, mail landing in spam.

A VPS gives you a real server for a few dollars a month more. You control PHP versions, caching, workers and backups. It needs someone to look after it, which is where our DevOps service comes in.

Cloud makes sense when you need to scale up and down, or when you want managed databases and object storage. It is not automatically faster or cheaper, and it is easy to run up a bill.

Our rule of thumb: brochure site on shared, anything that earns money on a VPS, anything with unpredictable traffic on cloud.