Do You Need Dedicated Hosting for your High Traffic Website?

If your site consistently experiences high traffic or is growing faster than you anticipated, congrats! That being said, if you’re currently on a shared hosting plan, you’ve probably experienced a lot of frustrating downtime due to a lack of resources. Dedicated hosting would be a natural next step, but it’s not your only option. Purchasing a dedicated server means that you are (literally) buying full access to your own private machine. This means that 100% of that server’s resources are dedicated solely to your site, which is what makes it so attractive if your site is high traffic. Better still, with a dedicated server, you also get full root access and administrative power over the server, so you can adjust the settings as you wish. That being said, dedicated hosting can be costly. While it would be worth it to escape the downtime you’ll inevitably experience with shared hosting; you have another option. VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting is a much cheaper dedicated option. Because it’s becoming more and more popular, many web hosting companies that offer shared hosting also have VPS hosting packages, so you might even be able to upgrade your package without having to switch web hosts.