HACKER Q&A
📣 vmoore

Shared Hosting versus VPS?


There are many articles out there stating the differences between a VPS and a shared hosting package. I know the main differences, as in a VPS gives you more control of the server and the stack you would be using.

Say I wanted to host Wordpress on a VPS: What is the main advantage of doing that over, say, a $5.00/month subscription to a shared hosting provider who often have one click installs of Wordpress and you also don't have to harden that Wordpress instance (e.g Apache gets automatically updated on a shared hosting provider, among other things).

What would you go for personally. VPS or the shared hosting option?

  👤 antasvara Accepted Answer ✓
A major difference is going to be resources. If this is intended as a personal site, shared hosting is going to be a better deal for you. You'll get a better deal on hosting and if you're not getting a lot of visitors, your website will be fine.

A VPS, by contrast, is going to give you more computing power. If a large number of visitors is a concern, a VPS will be better.

Either way, you can get a VPS with low resources from Digital Ocean or linode for very cheap, so price shouldn't be a huge issue.

Personally, I'd go for a VPS. It's fun to set up a web server and control the entire process. If that's not what interests you about making a website, shared hosting is absolutely a fine option.

👤 NicoJuicy
Vps can just multiple sites but is harder to maintain and needs more skills.

Is your bottleneck time or money? And what about in 2 years.

Additionally: easyengine will make most of it easier for you: https://easyengine.io/

Don't forget basic Unix hardening ( fail2ban, ... )