[thelist] VPS over shared hosting

[Peter Loron]

Not sure if you have other requirements that may be pushing you towards a VPS, but they can be had fairly cheaply. I highly recommend Linode for VPS service, and they do have a datacenter in London.

On main negative of a VPS compared to shared hosting is that you are typically responsible for maintaining the machine…monitoring logs, updating software, watching for security problems, etc.

-Pete

On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:01 AM, Bob Meetin wrote:

> On 01/19/2012 10:39 AM, Chris Price wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> I'm looking into hosting for a town council website.
>> 
>> Security is obviously important but a typical uptime spec will suffice.
>> 
>> I'm told the current website isn't inundated with visitors so bandwidth and
>> processor performance are not critical at the moment.
>> 
>> Shared hosting is serving me pretty well at the moment but I'm wondering
>> about moving to VPS which in effect is shared.
>> 
>> Apart from the flexibility are there any real advantages with VPS?
>> 
> There is some "luck of the draw" in the mix, I think more with shared hosting and certainly the hosting company as well.  I have a client with the CMS running on a shared hosting package. I monitor the server and although there are some occasional performance issues, nothing too serious.
> 
> With the same hosting service and my reseller account, we were assigned a different server and the performance dings were regular, notorious.  You don't know who else you're sharing space with, yadda yadda.  After I moved the reseller account to VPS, this resolved the problem. Now there is no one else to blame...
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