I need to upgrade to a VPS

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pumabear

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I am currently on a hostgator shared plan, however my site is growing a lot and getting a lot more traffic so I need to upgrade.

I was thinking of just upgrading to the Hostgator VPS they offer just to make things less complicated. Any thoughts on the hostgator service?

What else would you guys recommend?

My budget is 75-110$ a month and I am currently getting around 5-7k visitors per day
I would like the VPS to have cPanel and good customer support

Thanks a lot!
 


Fuck VPS. Here's a place with dedicated servers in your price range: https://hivelocity.net/dedicated-servers/intel-core-2-quad/

We have a lot of our core infrastructure on them and they've been quite solid. Only issues we've had was with a somewhat substandard RAID controller...but our usage is a lot more intense than what yours will be. Dedicateds with HiVelocity start at $49/m, and the good ones start at $89.

If you're looking for something cheaper(but inevitably with crappier support) you can try to find one of the many OVH(France) resellers. OVH won't sell directly to Americans or non Quebecois Canadians, so you're pretty well fucked trying to get one direct...I've yet to find a good reseller for them, but the servers themselves as fast as a mother fucker and cheap as hell. A server with an Atom processor should run you in the neighborhood of $19, and an I3 will be in the neighborhood of $50...generally with substantial memory.


"Good support" is really the issue here. Not many companies have it, and if they do you pay out the asshole for it(RackSpace and the like). I'd recommend more hosts, but to be honest most are fucking terrible, especially outside the US(I'm looking at you AU/FR/SP/RU)
 
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Yeah I would actually have the same recommendation. VPS is worthless from my experience. Your sharing your box with other users similar to shared, plus you really don't get that high of resources to share for the increase in price. For $110, you should be able to get a decent dedicated server in most places in the US. I'd usually recommend either SoftLayer.com or Codero.com. All my servers and my clients are at Codero, and I'm running all windows servers for no more than $130. If your looking for a linux box, you probably can get much cheaper.

And then look on the bright side, you won't have to deal with moving to a different server if your site out-grows the VPS, which will probably happen pretty quickly.

If you need any help setting up a Dedicated Windows Server, just PM me and I'll show you all there is to know. If your looking for a Linux, lol good luck, you're on your own.
 
I agree with the above posts as far as VPS is concerned. I upgraded to VPS from Dreamhost and it was slow. Much slower than their shared plan. Huge mistake on my part but I learned.

I don't have the budget for a dedicated and to be quite honest, don't have the slightest interest in managing a dedicated. Before you upgrade, ask yourself if you can deal with all the stress of running a dedicated server yourself.

Right now, one of my major websites is on Wordpress. After doing some searching, I came across WP Engine. Best decision I've made as far as hosting goes. They are top notch. No downtime and my website runs fast. But obviously, this is only for Wordpress sites.
 
The other option between Shared Hosting and VPS is Performance Shared Hosting - basically it's "Good Shared Hosting" where the hosts don't oversell the crap out of the boxen.
 
Shared host is essentially a dedicated server but with a ton of other sites on it.

I don't really think a VPS is going to help with your issue.

What you need to do is get a dedicated server such as suggested by xmcp.
 
There's a major difference between a bare VPS and a VPS running cpanel or plesk or some other shitty control panel software.

Man up and get a raw VPS instance like at Linode or Digital Ocean or the like. Fast and full control and easy to upgrade. Plus, Linode's management platform is the best in the biz.
 
5k-7k traffic is still okay to be on a shared hosting plan. What CMS are you using if I dont mind asking?

I am also on hostgator and have traffic upwards to 50k a day with no slow downs at all, but that is probably because I am using static html.
 
I currently have a vps and using bluehost on another site. vps seems a little slower than bluehost.

I'm launching a few new sites and bringing on some affiliates who are going to be sending several thousand per day, so I looked into autoscaling cloud so I wouldn't have to worry about spikes. Price was an issue though.

I definitely don't want to manage a server either, so I signed up with MediaTemple managed vps. I'm still up in the air if I will transition all my sites over after reading this thread. Sounds like a managed dedicated server is the way to go.

The best solutions I could find from my research were MediaTemple, Rackspace, or LiquidWeb. Peer1 and Rack Alley had decent pricing, but for reliability I found more helpful information for the latter 3.

Let us know what you ended up with.
 
wow dint know ovh is not allowing USA people, i might start such service i nthe undergorunds ^_^

mediatemple sux. out of managed that i tried AND liked its wiredtree and liquidhost.
 
That budget would be enough to host your site at high end webhosting providers.
Dreamhost, webhostingpad and the likes
 
 
I have a Linux and a Win VPS with host-stage.com. They are located in France but am not sure if they are OVH resellers.

A Linux VPS level 7 will cost you around $100.

  • Guaranteed RAM : 8144 MB
  • Burstable RAM: 10240 MB
  • CPU: 14.40 Ghz
  • Hard Drive: 400 GB
  • Bandwidth: 1 GBPS UNMETERED
A good value for money for the features that they provide.

I have used xxserver.eu previously but the servers were too slow. They oversold them. Host-stage, to what I know doesn't oversell. Their servers are pretty solid.
 
any host offering burstable ram is using openvz for virtualization and it is very likely they are overselling.
 
Some good solid advice here, I was thinking about VPN but may switch to a deciated server, I will check out the other options though.

Is it still a huge factor where the servers are based?
 
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