Congratulations! You’re business is taking off. People are so interested in what you have to say, that they’ve added your RSS feed to their Google Reader. People are coming to your site from SumbleUpon and Digg left and right. This is a great thing, right?
Yes! Until you receive an email from your hosting company telling you that you’re using more than your share of server resources. Or, you found out that you have so many visitors hitting your site that it’s simply slowing everything down to the point that no one wants to bother clicking around on your website. What do you do?
Time to Plan for an Upgrade
If you’re currently on a shared hosting plan, it might not be a bad idea to consider upgrading to a Virtual Private Server or a Dedicated Server.
Virtual Private Server– a method of partitioning a physical server computer into multiple servers such that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine.
Plus Side- Most hosting providers will offer you with a dedicated amount of CPU power and RAM, providing you with the tools to keep your website trucking along.
Bad Side- This is still technically a form of shared hosting. If others on the server are getting hit hard with traffic or doing something shady, your site may suffer.
Dedicated Server– is a type of Internet hosting where you can lease an entire server that is not shared with anyone.
Plus Side- It’s all yours baby! Everything about this server is all yours and you don’t need to worry about others messing with your site performance.
Bad Side- There may be a bit of a learning curve. Because it’s all yours, you more than likely will be responsible for some sort of server management tasks that you didn’t have to worry about under a virtual private server plan or certainly under a shared hosting plan.
Bottom Line
ReadyWire Virtual Dedicated Servers are fully managed, meaning we’ll take care of all of the technical aspects of your server so that you don’t have to. Plus, plans start at just $49/mo.
ReadyWire is proud to offer the Intel Atom 330 Dedicated Server, which is a fantastic upgrade from shared hosting, for only $126.95/mo.
All in all, if it’s time to make a move off of shared hosting, ReadyWire has a solution to fit your needs. Thoughts? Comments? Questions? Please leave them as a comment so that we can all learn from each other!