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I don't think cost is what's keeping people on shared hosting versus VPS. It's that there is a whole wide world of people just doing a little static hosting.
by xienze 11y ago
I don't think cost is what's keeping people on shared hosting versus VPS. It's that there is a whole wide world of people just doing a little static hosting. They don't want, need, or know how to use a VPS.
- jnbiche 11y agoIn fact, I think most people on shared hosting are not hosting static sites, but rather sites based on one or more of the hundreds of PHP application frameworks out there (WordPress, PHPBB, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, MediaWiki, etc, etc.) Back when I used to do frequent freelancing for the type of client who used shared hosting, I don't think I met a single one who hosted static sites, even though for many of them static would have been more appropriate and far more secure and performant.