But if you’re looking for speed, pure speed, you will need a dedicated server, and dedicated servers cost a LOT more than shared hosting. With a dedicated server, you also get the ability to configure it however you like. Keep on mind, that with most hosts, you probably need to buy more than the basic dedicated server to get a real speed boost.
Bottom Line
Unless you have a very high traffic site, your site will probably be fast enough on shared hosting. Instead of paying extra money for a dedicated server, spend that money on marketing and optimizing your site for search engines. Maybe then you will get enough traffic and income to justify a dedicated server.
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frank says
This isn’t always true. Most likely hostgator was using inferior hardware on their vps servers. If you find a good vps provider like Accuwebhosting.com you will see a large speed increase using a vps server over shared hosting.
Vps servers share maybe 10 to 16 other websites per server and a shared server can hold hundreds of sites. The hardware on the vps you was using is to blame. Just because hostgators vps machines didn’t work for you doesn’t mean all vps machines are slow. I beg to differ.
Max says
Frank, yes but in reality. How many small websites on shared hosting get lots of traffic?
As soon as website gets serious most try to move to dedicated. Because to get lots of visitors to a new website you have to spend much time and money anyway.
So my theory is that shared hosting holds way more websites most of which are hardly alive. Unless of course hoster decides to add up more and more of them on a single server.
And most reputable hosters track websites on shared hosting that take too much resources due to “newsletters” “viruses” etc. and take measures.