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The Hosting Plan You Need Depends on Revenues, and Not Only Traffic - DailyBlogTips

The Hosting Plan You Need Depends on Revenues, and Not Only Traffic - DailyBlogTips

The Hosting Plan You Need Depends on Revenues, and Not Only Traffic

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 03:27 AM PST

A couple of weeks a friend of mine started complaining about his hosting company. He told me his website is very slow lately, and that many times a week it goes down completely.

Here’s how the conversation went more or less:

Me: What hosting plan are you currently using?

My friend: Shared hosting.

Me: Hum. You probably should have upgraded to a dedicated server or at least to a VPS already.

My friend: But my site only gets 5000 visitors per day or so. Do you think I already need a dedicated server?

Me: How much revenues did the site generate this year, and how much do you expect it to generate next year?

My friend: Around $100,000 this year, hoping to reach $300,000 next year.

Me: …

The reason to upgrade to a VPS or to a dedicated server is not only to handle the amount of traffic your site gets. It’s also to make your site more stable (on shared hosting the actions of other users affect your site) and more secure.

In fact even if your website has a really small traffic, say 500 visitors a day, you should consider an upgrade as soon as you start making $1000 monthly or so. You can get a decent VPS for as low as $100 monthly, and that would be an investment of only 10% of your revenues, which is reasonable considering the impact that your hosting plan has on your online business as a whole.

Rule of thumb: reached $1000 in monthly revenues? Invest $100 monthly in a decent VPS. Reached $2500 in monthly revenues? Invest $250 monthly in a dedicated server.

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