Most website owners start their hosting voyage with getting their website up and running with the help of cheap servers anyone can buy, or simple said, shared web hosting packages. However, as time goes by and a website is increasing (in terms of traffic, pages or even revenue) share hosting might not be the most appropriate solution anymore and the next level between shared and dedicated is paying for a VPS (Virtual Private Server).

VPS hosting, although it might not be the cheapest hosting solution available, it definitely does not raise the costs as dedicated hosting is but in the same time it comes with many features you might become useful as your site grows and moreover, in time you will notice that reliability does not always come cheap. As the name says, a VPS is basically a virtual portion of a dedicated server thus getting some extra-benefits when compared with shared hosting that are listed below.

Maybe one of the most important benefits is the fact that you are receiving your dedicated memory, bandwidth, space and even CPU. You will notice that unlike when buying a shared hosting package you will not receive “unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited all” however you should not be alarmed by this while a VPS will definitely add much more value to your website when compared to a shared options. Furthermore you are not sharing the same IP so you “differentiated” from other websites hosted on the same server, but on a different virtual server.

Probably one of the main reasons website owners decide to move their sites to a VPS is the speed and reliability they get due to dedicated resources like RAM and so on. Once moved on a VPS solution your websites will load faster and the downtime will go from less to almost 0 and while speed is a new metric used by Google to rank websites it is probably a good move to benefit as soon as possible from these extra-features at not so expensive prices as you might think.