> I would've thought majority of shared hosting providers have much higher CPU, RAM and ethernet speeds They do, but when you rent a VPS you're essentially get

> I would've thought majority of shared hosting providers have much higher CPU, RAM and ethernet speeds They do, but when you rent a VPS you're essentially getting to use that hardware in timeslices (and you only get a part of the RAM). Depending on provider, the percentage of time your VM is active (and so it gets to use these resources) is either enforced by the hypervisor, is a result of fair scheduling between clients sharing the hardware, or a combination of both. I don't have Cortex-A7 hardware to benchmark and compare the CPU speed with VPSes, but I think it should be close to lower end offerings. 1 GB of RAM is usually not even the lowest offering, e.g. DigitalOcean[0], prgmr[1]. [0] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing [1] http://prgmr.com/xen/ http://prgmr.com/xen/