Moving From Shared Hosting to a VPS Hosting Plan

[jennyjackson]

Moving From Shared Hosting to a VPS Hosting Plan

Why move?

This is quite frequently asked question when it comes to migrating from one to another. Migration from one to another that is from shared to VPS is the most common migration that we see these days; however migrations from VPS web hosting to shared hosting are also happening. The reasons for this are quite obvious and can be mostly put in one category, Resources. The obvious example: When someone has a blog on a shared hosting, with some poor content (pictures, text and commenting ability) you will hardly see these types of blogs rocket sky high from one 10 to 100 visits a day to let’s say 1000 to 10000 or even more… This isn’t impossible but it takes some videos, chat rooms, and some juicy materials to have that number of visits. If this happens once or twice in a month that you have a burst of visitors migration is not an option, however if this continues on a regular basis migration is essential, if you want to keep those numbers growing or maintain them at least when it comes to requirements part. So, the logical solution would be of course to upgrade your resources to a level that will satisfy the demands of the visitors.

Shared IP and dedicated IP

The consequences of not migrating are slower loading or crashing of the site that is the server as it can become over-loaded.

But the thing that is the worst is that, this can happen to some else also on the shared hosting server, and even though you have minimum requirements with your site or whatever you do someone could crash the entire server. This can also happen from totally another reason but still with the same consequences. Those reasons appear because of several things that characterize the shared hosting server and differ it from VPS and dedicated server. Shared IP address is one of the main reasons of site crashing as it exposes you to multiple security threats that can occur when at least one of the users on that server goes rogue, while on VPS website hosting that can’t happen. Besides the fact that every user has 2 or more IP’s dedicated to his account, depending on the plan and the hosting company which has its own standard of IP’s added to account. Another reason could be the shared hosting space. If one of the accounts become infected with some advanced virus it can spread on the entire server. It’s true that you can crash your server for any reason as nothing is 100% ‘bulletproof’ but all those risks are minimized by the virtualization technology of the physical server. One big server (physical) has been split into multiple ‘mini’ servers which are made in such a way they all behave like separate servers isolated from each other, yet with the full set of advantages that allows them to be flexible in multiple ways. Those were only some of the reasons why should anyone migrate from shared hosting to VPS website hosting but there is a totally different situation. Shared hosting has one advantage on the VPS and that is the price. The costs of shared hosting are much lower than a VPS web host which presents a perfect opportunity to small time users with minimum requirements. This also goes for the ones who are on VPS and simply don’t have the traffic on their sites to justify its costs. But since we are living in age where our technology and necessities are constantly increasing these cases are becoming so rare that everybody almost needs at least the basic plans that the different VPS companies have to offer. Usually these days a basic plan must have 512 MB of RAM, which has become a standard that cannot go any lower, 1-2 CPU cores and about 50 GB of HDD. The rest of the specifications are variable.

So in general what do you get when migration from shared hosting to VPS:

* You get more reliable servers that can only fail you in a couple of cases like an electrical blackout, human mistake (mostly the customer itself that has done something to cause a malfunction to his own private server or total server failure for which the chances are 1: 10000000, however it can happen!)
* Flexibility of the server – even though the virtualization software that’s used to make those private server on a physical server uses a technology that separates every server from each other yet leaves the option of adding resources at any time or demising them, depending on what the customers wants.
* The usage of the resources on that same physical server is constant or higher… What I mean by this is the resources that are given to you by the plan you have chosen can be used by anyone else but you… Even though the resources are at minimum usage and another account needs more resources as it is using the max he has available this won’t affect you at all. There is one option called BURSTABLE RAM that allows the users who have it turned on to use more RAM then they have been given by the plan for several moments, in cases of sudden traffic increase for example… This option can helps users either because of peak spikes that appear from time to time, or simply by sudden overloads that become constant and can be dealt with in that time period until you contact your provider to increase your resources permanently.

Those were just some of the advantages of the VPS that this technology has when compared to shared hosting. If still this isn’t enough to help you decide why should you move to VPS from shared hosting read another article in our article section, The Advantages of VPS hosting and you will have more clear view on the subject.

Article Source: www.VpsWebServer.com

[anilkamble]

thanks for sharing this nice info with us.
hoping more from u.