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With a VPS you have to manage an entire operating system. With shared hosting you usually don't have to manage even a single application (since they usually hav
by briansmith 18y ago
With a VPS you have to manage an entire operating system. With shared hosting you usually don't have to manage even a single application (since they usually have "one-click" installers and auto-updaters). For that reason, the vast majority of people would be better off paying $10/month for shared hosting than $10/month for a VPS.
- wmf 18y agoOn a VPS you should be able to install some kind of control panel that would give all the advantages of shared hosting but the flexibility (if you need it) and performance isolation of a VPS.
- easp 18y agoIndeed, I did just that. I moved all my wordpress installations over to a $10 account with webfaction. I considered a VPS, but dropped that idea quickly. I wasn't interested in being a sysadmin, and I didn't have to worry about shoehorning the DB server, OS and web/application server into the space afforded by a cheap VPS.