A major difference is going to be resources. If this is intended as a personal site, shared hosting is going to be a better deal for you. You'll get a better de

A major difference is going to be resources. If this is intended as a personal site, shared hosting is going to be a better deal for you. You'll get a better deal on hosting and if you're not getting a lot of visitors, your website will be fine. A VPS, by contrast, is going to give you more computing power. If a large number of visitors is a concern, a VPS will be better. Either way, you can get a VPS with low resources from Digital Ocean or linode for very cheap, so price shouldn't be a huge issue. Personally, I'd go for a VPS. It's fun to set up a web server and control the entire process. If that's not what interests you about making a website, shared hosting is absolutely a fine option.