A VPS is shared hosting to me, it's just an instance on a shared system. Shared hosting used to mean a folder on a shared web server but I consider sharing reso

A VPS is shared hosting to me, it's just an instance on a shared system. Shared hosting used to mean a folder on a shared web server but I consider sharing resources in a hypervisor equally shared. ;) If they truly wanted speed through control of resources they would have used bare metal. But yeah, the website is easy to optimize when it's simple, the hard part, often outside of your control, is DNS and actual connection handling. Many have already mentioned CDN so there's that. But you also don't know what kind of firewalls are being used, or switches, or whatever else may impact your site. Why not just do what others have suggested and put it all in the cloud so that Amazon can worry about balancing your load.