How to choose the right hosting plan
Shared, VPS or dedicated? The right answer depends on your traffic, your team and your appetite for maintenance. Here's how to decide.
Choosing a hosting plan can feel like being handed a menu in a language you don't speak. Shared, VPS, dedicated, managed, cloud, the terms pile up fast. But the decision comes down to a few honest questions about your traffic, your team and how much maintenance you actually want to do.
Shared hosting, where many sites share one server, is the sensible starting point for most small websites and new businesses. It's affordable and low-maintenance, and modern shared platforms handle far more traffic than their reputation suggests. For a brochure site or a young webshop, it's usually plenty.
A VPS, or virtual private server, gives you a guaranteed slice of resources and more control. It's the natural next step when your traffic grows, when a shared environment starts feeling cramped, or when you need to install software that shared hosting doesn't allow. You get more power, at the cost of a little more responsibility.
Dedicated servers hand you an entire machine. That's real power and total control, but also real overhead, and it only makes sense for high-traffic sites or specific technical requirements. Most businesses never need to go this far, and those that do usually know it.
The word that matters most, though, is managed. A managed plan means someone else handles updates, security patches, backups and monitoring so you can run your business instead of your server. For most owners that peace of mind is worth far more than the small difference in monthly price.
If you're not sure which tier fits, the safest move is to start smaller than you think you need and choose a host that makes upgrading painless. We size every plan around real usage and move clients up or down as their needs change, with no penalty for guessing wrong at the start.