You had a bad time with shared hosting, and your solution was... a different kind of shared hosting? CPUs and ram are guaranteed on VMs, but disk/network IO is

You had a bad time with shared hosting, and your solution was... a different kind of shared hosting? CPUs and ram are guaranteed on VMs, but disk/network IO isn't. A noisy neighbor on a VM host can soak up all the disk bandwidth and slow you down to a crawl, even if uptime is reporting 0.00 load. I like the referer tags on the VPS hosting links, too.