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Top 5 Reasons To Get VPS Hosting

TOP 5 REASONS TO GET VPS HOSTING

Many business owners and individuals with rapidly growing websites, network software, and online applications might not readily have a plan for evolving their backend server architecture. Identifying user impact on your server is important, especially when there are thousands of visitors daily and your sales continue to increase rapidly. As your enterprise continues to grow, so too does your server hosting requirements. Many businesses and individuals don’t know what to do when their websites or apps have outgrown their shared hosting environments. Before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s first take a look at the definition behind VPS hosting.

What is VPS Hosting?

Virtual private servers (VPS) are a great option for those seeking enhanced performance, security, and flexibility over shared web hosting. A virtual private server is a software isolated segment of a dedicated server that has a specified amount of resources that are not shared. VPS hosting is similar to shared hosting, however, the resources are not shared and you get more computing power and additional server resources. A virtual private server is the middle ground between shared hosting and dedicated server hosting. In fact, some large scale companies prefer it to dedicated servers because of its ability to rapidly and fluently scale up or down based on usage requirements and users.

The main takeaway here is that a virtual private server is entirely separate from the other accounts on the dedicated server, and isn’t like shared hosting where resources are shared and there’s overselling. There is never any overselling of resources with a dedicated or virtual private server.

Virtual private servers are ideal solutions for businesses and individuals with a quickly evolving infrastructure. Lets go over some of the Top 5 Reasons To Get VPS Hosting:

1. Virtual Private Servers Don’t Share Server Resources

A huge drawback to shared hosting for many is the fact that resources are shared. This can be bad for a number of reasons, one of which is competition over server resources. With shared server hosting, users are put onto the same machine, and with the same resources for them all to share. This can negatively impact performance if there’s someone on the same machine running a usage intensive program or hosting a high volume website. When users are on shared web hosting, they have to share the same IP address. This has the potential to harm rankings if someone hosting on the same server is sending out massive amounts of spam, hosting illicit materials, or trying to use the IP in another negative way.

When choosing to host a virtual private server, businesses and resource intensive users known that they have guaranteed resources that are theirs alone. With a virtual private server, users know that their CPU, RAM, storage, and network speeds are guaranteed. That means no more slow loading websites or stalling applications because the server is under a lot of pressure from multiple different users. It’s even important to know that virtual private servers and dedicated servers also get their own IP address, so there’s no risk of sharing the same IP address as a hackers, spammer, or illicit adult website.

2. Virtual Private Servers Are Highly Scalable

Businesses and individuals that are serious about their hosting platform should be concerned about the scalability and growth of their enterprise. By opting to use a virtual private server, users will always have the option to scale their virtual server up or down based on their needs and usage requirements. This is good for those worried about spending less money than on a dedicated server, but for those that are ready for the advantages that a VPS host can provide over traditional shared hosting.

Many enterprises start small and with grand hopes of becoming something much larger. Choosing to host with a virtual private server offers the option to scale resources up and down as need be. The ability to scale up or down won’t affect the user experience, this means that during the transition, there is no downtime or problems in the backend of the server.

Since virtual private servers are virtual and don’t have physical hardware of their own, it is easy to transfer virtual servers between dedicated servers. This is a great feature because it allows for the highest availability possible. Unlike some web hosting providers and services offering WordPress hosting, a virtual private server doesn’t have traffic limitations except for what your server can handle. If one of your shared hosting neighbors is experiencing a dedicated denial of service attack, you will no longer have to experience it as well with a virtual private server.

3. Virtual Private Servers Offer Enhanced Security Over Shared Hosting

Businesses and individuals worried about the security of their data are choosing virtual private server hosting over shared hosting because of the enhanced security that it provides. Experienced website owners know the value of security when it comes to selecting the best server host for their website hosting needs. E-commerce websites especially hold high value to virtual private servers and dedicated servers because of credit card transactions that must be run through their site on an encrypted connection.

Virtual private server hosting has a good advantage over shared web hosting because each individual virtual server gets its own dedicated IP address. With shared server hosting, all the users are forced to share server resources and an IP address. This means that if one of the users on a shared hosting server is sending out spam, hosting adult material, or doing malicious activities, it could negatively impact you or your web rankings as well. Because virtual private servers offer dedicated IP addresses, businesses and larger websites don’t have to worry about one of their shared server neighbors negatively affecting them.

With VPS hosting, website and other data is stored separately from other users. This keeps users safe in the event of an account getting infected by malware. Most professional server hosting services offer advanced security features such as anti-ddos firewalls and security monitoring to keep websites, net software, and web applications safe. As an added security tip, always remember to take frequent remote backups.

4. Virtual Private Servers are Highly Affordable and Cost Effective

As a website or business continues to grow, so too do the requirements of the hosting server. Virtual private servers are considered by most to be highly cost effective when the time comes to upgrade from shared hosting to something new. Choosing to host a popular website on a shared hosting server will most likely cause performance issues that can damage your brand reputation. Businesses and professional network developers employ the usage of a virtual private server if they need dedicated resources at a cost lower than dedicated server hosting.

While dedicated servers are typically a good choice for a larger or more established business, virtual private servers offer a middle ground between shared hosting and dedicated hosting in terms of pricing and server resources. Small websites and businesses might be wise to consider the implementation of a virtual private server if they are expecting rapid growth. Virtual private server hosting services can help cut down on costs over a dedicated server.

Another important cost factor that is important when thinking of reasons to get VPS hosting is technical support costs. Many businesses and individuals can end up paying a large sum of money for server support, and that can hurt their profit margins. A good reason to get VPS hosting is that managed virtual private server hosting companies offer free technical support for many common software and web applications.

5. Virtual Private Servers are Reliable and Offer More Control

It’s a commonly known fact that shared hosting can sometimes be a risky endeavor for users because of how shared hosting companies can oversell resources. Overselling is a common tactic wherein a shared host will advertise more resources than they can provide on a server, and then fill the server with more users than required resources. The thought process behind it is, not everyone will be using 100% of their allocated space all the time, so shared hosts can put more customers per server for an increased profit. This can be bad for many reasons, like reliability. Many servers on shared hosting plans will become bogged down with slow or unresponsive pages during peak or high traffic times.

When choosing to host a website or other web application with a virtual private server, users know that they aren’t sharing any resources, and other users won’t negatively impact their sites performance. Virtual private servers also offer more overall control and functionality than a traditional shared hosting plan might.

Virtual private servers offer businesses and individuals the opportunity to have a server that is highly customizable, flexible, scaleable, and reliable. Users are able to select which operating system they would like to use, unlike shared web hosting. With a virtual private server, users are also able to change configuration settings that would have otherwise been locked to them. Users no longer have to worry about the actions of their shared hosting neighbor negatively affecting their sites performance or rankings by sharing the same IP address. All virtual private server users will be getting their own virtual machine that has a unique IP address that isn’t shared, this is very important for many. Virtual private servers are also important to software developers because it allows them to explore their code fully in a sandbox environment in order to test it with different applications and configurations.

By selecting a virtual private server over a traditional shared hosting plan, users can help to reduce their downtime. Virtual private servers also offer root access to the server, so the server environment can be changed to the users satisfaction and needs, unlike shared hosting. With shared web hosting, many popular software packages are not supported because of security limitations, this is not the case with virtual private servers. By selecting a VPS host over shared web hosting, users know that they can have full control over their reliable virtual private server.

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A Chat with Beth Lisick

Edie on the Green Screen is an irreverent love-letter to San Francisco, chronicling the story of a 90s "It girl" as she ages-in-place and confronts the Bay Area tech monoculture. The author, Beth Lisick, is also an actress, co-founder of the Porchlight Storytelling Series, and one of the sharpest, quick-witted people that we know. You can read more about Beth here. Edie on the Green Screen is her first novel.

On April 1st, 2020, City Lights planned to celebrate the publication at the bookstore. Given the “Shelter in Place” order by the city of San Francisco, staff retreated to their homes, and City Lights continued to work, remotely. Stacey Lewis, VP, Director of PR, Marketing & Sales, conducted a Twitter chat on April Fool’s Day with Beth reporting from her living room in Berkeley, CA. Here follows a transcript of that conversation. 

City Lights: Beth!!! Where are you?

I'm in New York, kinda near Woodstock and Kingston.

What are you doing to stay sane?

I’m cooking a lot! And trying to go out on hikes. Hanging out with my husband and son and also my brother’s family.

For how long did you work on your novel?

This is embarrassing to say but I wrote the first words of it almost 10 years ago!

Are you in a writing group? Or do you share things with particular friends for feedback?

I’ve never been in a formal writing group but I have a few friends, writers and non-writers alike, that I will share things with.

Prior to working with the independent, Brooklyn-based 7.13 Books on Edie on the Green Screen, you’ve had books w/ Manic D Press: Monkey Girl & This Too Can Be Yours

Thank God for Jennifer Joseph and Manic D. I think today is Jen’s birthday!

Happy birthday Jen Joseph!! And Everybody Into the Pool & Helping Me Help Myself with Harper Collins.

My brief foray into mainstream publishing.

And Yokohama Threeway: And Other Small Shames pub’d by City Lights (hell YES!)  

Ah! That felt niiiiiice.

What are some of the differences you noticed working with indie vs corporate presses?

A lot of it has to do with the publicity and marketing part. On mainstream presses I always felt like I had to convince them that I was worthwhile. Their budgets aren’t necessarily going to you anyway and I feel much more comfortable with my indie press relationships. More personal.

Can you talk about your publisher 7.13 Books and how you came to work with them? 

My friend Alex Behr was published by 7.13 and she introduced me to Leland [Leland Cheuk, publisher of 7.13 Books]. He is from the Bay Area but lives in Brooklyn now. He understood my Bay Area vibe! He is committed to doing debuts, but since this was my debut novel, he squeezed me onto the roster.

For how long have you lived away from the Bay Area?

It will be eight years this summer! So long. But luckily I come back a lot for Porchlight and to see my friends and parents.

Your novel clearly pulls from your own experiences in the Bay. How did you recall the memories? Do you keep a journal?

I keep various notebooks and write notes in my phone. I also like to quiet my brain and sort of meditate memories or experiences into my consciousness. (clearly from Northern California)

I was thinking that. Did the physical distance from San Francisco give you freedom to write about it?

YES. Even more than I imagined. I had a lot more free time once I moved to New York because I didn’t know anyone. It was a nice way to get a different perspective. Being across the country.

Do you think it would have been harder constructing this story if you were still living here?

Yes. I had gotten myself into a place where I was so upset with the changes in the Bay Area that I was too crabby to write about it. The first drafts were very cynical and angry. It’s hard not to feel like it’s been taken over. I like to think that even though there are huge buildings and all that money and new people who don’t seem to care about the things I cared about, that those things will still surface.

I bet. I'm going to light some incense. Hope you don't mind.

Burn that sage, sister. By the way, I am using voice text because my Internet connection is kind of slow. Caveat for every typo or mistake!

I wish we could hear your voice.

My audiobook is almost done! It’s the first time I’ve ever been able to record my own audiobook so I’m really excited about it.

CL: Oh! I can't wait to hear that!!! San Francisco was, for many of us in the 80s & 90s, a place to continue “growing up,” as we could afford to do so. Edie, in the novel, is so relatable. What is it about her that makes her so stubborn to change?  

Edie’s whole personality was shaped by bands and bars and art and a certain aesthetic that was prevalent in San Francisco in the 90s. When that disappears, she’s not quite sure what to do.

Sorry, I had to step away to wash my hands.

What song did you sing?

Rapper's Delight.

Hero!

No, you are my hero. And, you are truly bi-coastal, regularly coming back to SF to co-host the wonderful Porchlight Storytelling Series, and to see your family. What’s it like having deep roots on both coasts?

If I can’t be a true bisexual at least I can be bi-coastal. And I do love living in New York so I’m still glad that I moved. I like being so deeply from the Bay Area and knowing it so well. And I also love the anonymity of being in New York. No millions of old personal stories to trip you up or slow you down.

Or running into anyone you slept with. Speaking of the Porchlight, what have you learned about storytelling after so many years of organizing these events?

I think that's why I was able to write this book. I have learned so much from the way people tell stories at Porchlight. Not only structurally but as far as really paying attention to what feels authentic and what feels put on.

If you had a piece of advice to share with your younger self, what would it be?

Maybe to step back and listen even more. I was so energetic and enthusiastic about putting myself out there in my 20s but I learned so much once I shut up and chilled out a bit.

@Superprose1 asks: Curious ~ how does novel writing compare to memoir ?

It felt very liberating to me to write a novel after writing so much memoir. I didn’t have to worry about being accurate, I could just be truthful. I could try out different thoughts and feelings on another character without having to claim it as my own. 

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Speed round time!

Ready!

Write what comes to your mind when I say . . . Burrito

El Farolito

UC Santa Cruz [Both Beth and I are proud Slugs.]

Drum circle

“Law & Order” [Beth has appeared as an extra on the show]

Sitting in the jury box.

Hummus

Santa Cruz

Juice Cleanse

I’d totally do it.

Unknown knowns

Astral projection. I’m learning a lot about what a big hippie I am.

It's cause yer near Woodstock.

* * *

Pictures of you.  I present: “Beth Lisick: This is Your Life”

OH GOD!!! Are there nudes?

Tell us what’s going on here.

I worked for @fruitguys for years as a banana mascot. I got to travel all over the country. This is me at the San Francisco Marathon.

That’s me and @captaindingbat [writer, actress, and author Tara Jepsen] doing our characters Carole and Mitzi. They only eat pancakes! This is a still from our web series Rods and Cones. 

This is a still from a film I acted in by Kara Herold. Called 39 1/2. It shot for six years and I was 47 by the time it was done.

That’s me and Jan Richman when we went on the Richard Simmons fitness cruise! It was for a chapter in my book Helping Me Help Myself. I love Richard!! 

Okay! You got me here! Where was this? Look how giant that headband is! And how did I get that amount of cleavage, which is huge for me.

This was at my gangster party many years ago. My roommate Marisa referred to your hairstyle as "the claw."

Wow. I remember that party now. I love seeing photos I've never seen before in outfits I haven't thought about in years. I must have been breastfeeding still. 

Taken by Frazer Bradshaw at Sundance. It was his first feature film (and mine too) and it went to Sundance in 2008. It’s called Everything Strange and New. It’s really beautiful. We were backstage and there was popcorn on the floor so it seemed natural to be photographed with it.

* * *

I want to thank Beth Lisick—always my It Girl—for joining us!

Stacey! Thank you so much for doing this. I miss you and everyone at City Lights. Can’t wait to see you all real soon. Lots of love!

I’m going to leave you with a video of The Beth Lisick Ordeal, in their prime. Enjoy!

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Paid plans start at $11 / month (billed annually)

Free trial period: 14 days

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It’s easy to choose Wix as a website builder. It truly takes on the name. Wix’s artificial intelligence asks you a few questions and literally builds your website before your eyes — unique color palette, features, and design all in one. It’s the best tool we’ve seen to get a site that matches your vision, even if you don’t know yet how you’d articulate that vision. Honestly, building a site with Wix’s AI felt a little like getting our minds read.

Wix has been at the forefront of this revolution, and is looking to closely combine AI and website building.

—Why AI is the best tool to help build your next website, TechRadar

To start, click create site. You’ll be asked a question: What kind of website do you want to create? From there, the AI will help you build your website. (You can opt-out and go it alone at this point, too, but we appreciated the AI’s help.)

One of the first screens you’ll see when you build a website with Wix.

We loved how easy it was for us to find a template that matched our vision. The AI stayed with us as we edited the page, a little pink square in the bottom (it looks like a chat pop-up) helping us pick the next thing to edit and showing us how to do it. The Wix AI matched our business to its online presence, used our logo to create a color palette for our site, and gave us a template pre-populated with our logo and address. Connecting images from existing social media accounts made it easy to pull in all the assets we already owned.

As AI progresses, it will be harder and harder to know which site was built via AI and which was built via a designer. You can think of it like passing a “design turing test”, i.e. in the future humans will not be able to differential between the two. Then, it’ll have to get innovative. Instead of mimicking what it is learning from what’s created, it will get better and more experimental. It’s easy to see how soon most websites that are created use AI in some way. —Wix VP & GM of Consumer Experience Nitzan Achsaf told TechRadar

There’s a lot of variety between the Wix themes, and the personality of each theme matches its name well. The Business Advisor had a spot-on graphic of an analytics dashboard, while Astrologer features an astral hero image.

Some of Wix’s business-centric themes.

Editing your desktop site with Wix requires some patience. To change the text on a text box, you’ll need to hover precisely in the right spot. We did some deep breathing and were able to find enough inner zen to make all the changes we needed. The mobile editor has the serene helpful feel we wish the rest of the editor maintained. It’s super easy to click through the options for how your menu, quick actions, and scroll options work on your mobile page. What you change in the mobile editor doesn’t affect anything that happens on the desktop.

Wix’s editor requires patience — and some clicking around.

We prefer its easier-to-use mobile editor.

Wix does have a free tier, but we don’t recommend it. It has some of the most in-your-face “this was not paid for” company branding we’ve seen — an instant trust breaker. Wix free sites also have one of the most cumbersome domain structures: yourusername.wix.com/sitename so we’d be QuicksproutEditorial.wix.com/Quicksprout. Connecting your actual domain also allows you to attach a Google Analytics profile and add email accounts if you’d like ($5 / account / month, or about half that with an annual plan). Unfortunately, none of this pricing is very upfront. Wix wants you to connect your domain before you see the email pricing, for example. We found answers to pricing questions in the support center, not the user flow.

Take note: all of Wix’s plans are automatically set to auto-renew. Sticker shock is real, especially if you signed up with an introductory promo pricing (at the time of publish, premium plans were a full 50% off, for example). There are many frustrated customers on TrustPilot who’re unhappy with this. It is possible to turn off your auto-renew, but you’ll need to do it more than 14 days before your plan’s anniversary — and if you do it during your 14-day free trial, your trial will be cancelled immediately.

As for which paid plan to pick, you have 7 options: 4 “regular” and 3 “ecommerce.” The difference really boils down to whether you’ll be accepting payments on your site or not. If you’re not sure about how much bandwidth you need, you can always start with a smaller subscription: if you go over the limit, you’ll get a notice from Wix (with no penalty) and use that as your signal to upgrade.

Squarespace

Quicksprout Pick

Best for: Beautifully designed templates

Plans start at $12 / month (billed annually)

Free trial period: 14 days (plus an additional 7-day extension)

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“Build something beautiful” is right. There’s no doubt that Squarespace wins the design and beauty contest here. The user interface has a bit of a learning curve and there’s not much of a Squarespace community to help you out, but the page you’ll end up publishing will be phenomenally good-looking.

Squarespace’s templates are all modern and beautiful.

But, building a website with Squarespace can feel a little like building IKEA furniture: in the showroom it’s all so beautiful and simple, but somehow it feels a little more complicated to put together than it promised. It can be hard to understand where exactly you are in the editor. We kept getting notifications that we were editing demo content, or that we would see the social logos once we connected our social media, or that we could unlock this or that feature with a paid subscription, but Squarespace didn’t go the extra step to make it easy to make that required move. It was a lot of fumbling through a beautiful interface, not exactly sure what changes were real, or where to head next. We also had some issues saving changes — an error message popped up and we had to move on, without our changes.

Editing a site in Squarespace has a bit of a learning curve.

Unlike IKEA, Squarespace is pricier than other website builders. That all being said, we love the way sites built with Squarespace look, and think it’s one of the simplest ways to create a beautiful, contemporary site.

Ucraft

Quicksprout Pick

Best for: Building a one-page site for free

Paid plans start at $6 / month (billed annually)

Free trial period: 14 days

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We love the free Landing Page option from Ucraft: create a single, mobile-ready page and connect your domain for free. The free version doesn’t get rid of the Ucraft branding but it’s minimal and not invasive. The template has all the features we’ve identified in our anatomy of a high-converting landing page. You can drop the branding by upgrading to a $6 / month Basic Website plan, and sell up to 50 items on the $14 / month Pro Website plan. If you have more items to sell, upgrade again, but note that once you upgrade, you can’t drop back down to a less expensive plan.

Ucraft’s themes are elegant and streamlined. It’s one-page free sites are designed to be a long scroll with anchored sections. Build a Ucraft site using drag-and-drop blocks and elements.

We’re also impressed with the $229 Lifetime plan. If the subscription set up (and realization that if you love the site you build, you’ll be paying that monthly fee for… forever) isn’t your favorite, then this is a nice compromise. You still get the easy-to-use editor and tools of a website builder, and the one-and-done payment.

Onepager

Quicksprout Pick

Best for: Quick set-up

Paid plans start at $8 / month (billed annually)

Free trial period: Unlimited free editing; simply pay when you publish

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We were so surprised to name Onepager a top pick. The templates look dated and the product tour video hasn’t been updated in six years. But Onepager is so dead simple and easy to set up that we were able to publish a workable website for a local pizza shop in minutes. Yes, every webpage builder claims you can get started that fast, but with so many options, templates, and features, we’ve found that we’re distracted and deep in the weeds of perfecting our site, not publishing it. That wasn’t the case with Onepager.

Onepager is a simple website builder with a simple interface.

The Onepager templates aren’t very modern, but they’re straight-forward and the user interface is helpful, and we were pleased with the overall look of our super-quick site. (And, as we written about before, websites with simple homepages convert better.) For a small business that just wants to stake out its territory online — as opposed to, say, building an online empire — we think Onepager fits the bill.

We’d also recommend it to anyone who gets asked all the time to build a website for a friend, a family member, so-and-so’s neighbor who has a family business. For $15 a month, you can build up to 5 sites. With the $199 per month agency plan, you can build up to 150 sites with a white-labeled version of Onepager’s editor platform.

The 26 other website builder platforms we considered

Adobe Muse

As of March 2018, Adobe has stopped releasing updates to its website builder software, acknowledging that simpler site builders like Wix and Squarespace have taken over: “For simpler websites, we’ve seen the emergence of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) website creators that use customizable templates to quickly create responsive websites that can be easily modified by the designer or a client.” — End of service for Adobe Muse

Cargo Collective

Honorable Mention Amazing templates and designs perfect for artists and art galleries, but definitely not for everyone. If you’re after templates designed for displaying images and image galleries, definitely take a look.

Cindr

True to its slogan, Cindr is very fast to use: add in new “blocs” and move them, but want to do much customization (say, if your team doesn’t have exactly 2, 3, 4 or 6 people on it…) and you’ll quickly get frustrated. We certainly were.

Duda

There were too many deal-breaker annoyances on Duda’s own website (broken links, unclear organization, scroll bars on pages that don’t scroll, and typos) for us to recommend building your site with theme. And it’s just as well, as its primary focus is on white-labeling and reselling web designs, not on creating and building your own site.

GoDaddy GoCentral

We’ve never loved the customer support from GoDaddy and GoCentral is no exception. There are only 8 templates, and you can only make extremely limited font and color changes on them. No moving or resizing. The GoDaddy forums are full of frustration and confusion. Case in point: GoDaddy updated live templates so their headers no longer looked the same. Support recommended changing themes if you didn’t like the new header. What a nightmare.  

Homestead

The Homestead website itself looks like its from a different era. And the 27 featured templates from its collection of hundreds! have that same late-90s look.

Jimdo

We really like using an AI questionnaire to launch our website, and we adore the ease of pre-populating the images from our Google Places, Facebook, and Instagram feeds. But, Jimdo’s editor was glitchy (images would appear as blank boxes, then reappear) and the design customizations were super limited. (Is it impossible to have a full width image header without a color filter? Seems so.) Wix makes all the same promises, and delivers.

Moonfruit

We really wanted to love this Moonfruit. It’s clean, it’s modern, it’s easy to flip into mobile view as you edit, it has a helpful dashboard that lets you know how much of your 500 free MB storage you’ve used. And maybe it’s worth considering. But we found that the template-free starting point left us feeling more confused than empowered. The result: a lot of haphazard clicking and website that looked more amateur than any other we’d built.

Simvoly

Not recommended. We were intrigued by the marketing lingo Simvoly opens with: funnels, analytics, A/B testing. Oh my! But, this platform shows lots of sloppiness that keeps it out of any competition for the best: typos in the animations on the Simvoly homepage are just the beginning. The builder doesn’t have an undo/redo function, or any way to save a draft page without publishing it. Simvoly knows the right buzzwords but doesn’t back it up with its product.

Site123

We wanted to like the AI assistance for building our theme, but didn’t. We answered one question about our site (we’re a DJ, or a Diner) and got sent to a pre-built page for us to customize. There’s no sense of adding your own personal style or browsing through templates to pick the site structure you’d like. Want to change templates? You’ll need to go back and answer that one question differently. To get a design we liked, we felt like we had to cheat the quiz.

SiteBuilder

You have to sign up before you can even browse the templates. That’s a dealbreaker for us, but they also have no free plan and once the promotional pricing wears off, your cost will double.

SiteZulu

Not much to love here. Only 31 themes, the mobile version of our test site was buggy, and its the ecommerce “upgrade” is the free PayPal embed button.

SnapPages

SnapPages is one of the most expensive website builders on the market. For the price, it doesn’t offer anything you can’t get elsewhere. Recently acquired by Subsplash, we expect SnapPages to focus on selling its services as part of the Subsplash service packages aimed at churches and nonprofits.

Strikingly

This Y-Combinator-backed one-page web builder shouldn’t be compared to a full-fledged website builder like Wix, Weebly, or Squarespace. It’s in the simplicity of getting something launched where single-page builders work best. But, Strikingly just isn’t as good as uCraft, which lets you connect your own domain for free and has a more beautiful and user-friendly interface, or Onepager, which is so dead simple you can literally publish a complete (albeit super simple) site in minutes.

uCoz uKit

uCoz has a clean and modern interface, that is intuitive and easy to use (though noticeably slow to load). We didn’t love that we needed to sign up to see the templates, that most of the templates are very similar, and you’re extremely limited in editing the templates. Once you’re in a template you can’t change things like text styling and can only choose from one of three colors. This keeps you from making bad design choices, but also makes picking a template a much more important choice.

Virb

We don’t recommend Virb, the MySpace competitor that pivoted to become a website builder in 2010 — while the one $10 plan is simple, but there’s no way to preview the editing tool, and honestly we couldn’t even figure out how to sign up. We clicked log in (but were told we didn’t already have an account…). Let us know if you can figure it out. By watching the Virb tutorial videos on its Vimeo account, which were uploaded six years ago, we got a sense that the tool hasn’t been updated recently, and here’s the deal breaker of deal breakers: it’s not WYSIWYG. To add social buttons, you’ll need to go to a menu, click add widget, and who know where they’ll show up on the page. We live in a world with the ease of drag-and-drop editors and can’t go back.

Vistaprint

Vistaprint does offer some limited templates you can build yourself under its “Digital Marketing” offerings, but it’s still a business-card first business. In fact, one of the major selling points it offers is just that: your website can match your business card.

Voog

Voog advertises that it’s the simplest multi-lingual site builder, that is you can build your site in one language and then add all of the copy in up to 10 other languages. Your user will choose the appropriate language with the little flag logo in the corner (you can also pre-select language based on user location). But, this is a feature Wix, Squarespace, and others also offer. We think it’s better to go with one of those bigger names for a few reasons: Voog’s site itself loads very slowly with noticeable lag on pages with more than one image, and its own pricing page doesn’t automatically notice the country you’re in. When your big claim is matching content to the user country, this is a big miss.

Web.com

A hard no from us here. Before you even get to browse the template, you’re signing up for introductory pricing that’s $1.95 for the first four weeks, then bumps up to the “current rate” which is $22.95 a month right now, with no promise that it won’t be more later. And the fine print asserts there are 4 weeks in a month, so there are 13 “monthly” billing cycles in a year. No thanks.

Webnode

A simple (almost too simple) designer with a super high price point. For no ads, you’ll pay $11.95 a month on the required annual plan. At that price, you can do far better.

Webs

Built by three brothers and then acquired by VistaPrint in 2011 for $117.5M in cash and stock, Webs looks like it hasn’t been touched since. The editor is slow, and the templates are dated — the default “line” has the scrollwork of a fancy wrought-iron fence, for example — and the templates, which are arranged in an awkward horizontal scroll, don’t respond to the system’s filter so premium and free templates are intermingled. Can’t recommend.  

Websitebuilder.com

A strong no. Uninspiring templates, buggy interface, a support chat portal that doesn’t work (and legitimately suggests unplugging your router to solve the problem), and terrible customer reviews that call out inaccurate billing and incorrect charges. We don’t doubt it: the terms of service say in order to unsubscribe from auto-renewals, you’ll need to turn to phone or chat, not simply update your account settings.

Webstarts

There’s so much freedom with Webstarts: you can literally move anything you want anywhere on the page. The problem with this is that it’s easy to move something on the desktop editor in such a way that it won’t show up on mobile. For a website builder, it’s freedom to a fault. We like to see when the software stops us from making bad decisions we don’t even know we’re making, without any fuss. Mobile-optimization doesn’t click in until the Pro Plus level, which is $14.32 a month, billed annually (~$172).

Weebly

In Q2 2018 Weebly was acquired by Square and has been increasingly geared towards entrepreneurs and online store owners (really gunning for online shops like Shopify). At least in its marketing, that is. When we checked out the one-star reviews on TrustPilot, we knew we couldn’t recommend Weebly. Another dealbreaker? There’s no undo button. Once you exit a module in the editor all of the changes you made are permanent. Delete a module, and want to undo it? Sorry, you’re simply out of luck.

WordPress.com

We love WordPress and run our site on WordPress, but an easy-to-use website builder it’s not. Dive into WordPress.com and you’ll be quickly launched into a world that feels like you need technical expertise. (You don’t really need much, but the menu layout and wiki-style simplicity feels much more demanding than others. And it most certainly is not drag-and-drop intuitive.) If you’re up to using WordPress, we recommend picking a great web host, registering a domain name, and going through WordPress.org’s “famous 5-minute installation.” You won’t pay the monthly subscription you’d pay with WordPress.com and you get all the same features — you’ll just need to do some of the hands-on work. Read more about the difference between self-hosted WordPress.org and fully hosted WordPress.com on the WordPress.com blog.

Yola

Yola is expensive and wants to upsell left and right. You’ll need Silver ($119 annually or $14.99 monthly) to ditch the Yola branding, and they’d like you to get Mobile Plus (an extra charge to make your business phone number and address show up on the bottom of mobile pages — this is free with Wix) and the $10/month ecommerce upgrade is simply a free Ecwid plugin Yola would love to charge for. The editor is a bit buggy, you can’t add a blog (Yola suggests embedding a Tumblr page…) and we don’t think the high price point and upselling are worth it for the mediocre product.

Recap: The best website builders

Wix Best for automating the tough choices

Squarespace Best for beautifully designed templates

Ucraft Best for building a one-page site for free

Onepager Best for quick set-up

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Differences Between a Virtual Private Server and a Dedicated Server

Understanding a Virtual Private Server

A virtual private server uses a hypervisor to separate the many clients that are hosted on a single physical machine. It is called a virtual private server because all clients are on one single server but appear as though they are on a separate dedicated machine; the VPS cuts down on cost and resources by simulating this environment.

A VPS is similar to shared hosting, but the software and availability of its resources make it an improvement. Even though they have similar, yet, distinctly different structures, a virtual private server is still considered a step up from shared hosting. The VPS has more resources in terms of computing power, memory, graphics-intensive software, and running CPU.

Read more in our article, “What Is VPS Hosting?”

Understanding a Dedicated Server

A dedicated server is associated with only one client.

The single client on a dedicated server has a full range of access to all the resources on the physical server. This includes all processing power, network access, hard drive storage capacity, and memory. A dedicated server can be used to host applications or services, as well as to store data and backup services. A dedicated server can also be used internally for the hosting and provisioning of specified services like the implementation of a devoted file or network server. A dedicated server gives similar functionality to an in-house server, but it is possessed, operated, and managed by the backend managed service provider. The user/customer exclusively connects with the dedicated server over the Internet to carry out a suite of server-based services.

Read more in our article, “What is Dedicated Server Hosting?“

VPS vs Dedicated Hosting: Which Should Your Business Choose?

Here are the differences between a VPS and a Dedicated Server. Finding out which one is the best for your business is based on some criteria and specifications.

Cost

If you run a small to medium-sized business, you have a tight budget. Hence, you may find dedicated server hosting less affordable than VPS hosting. Your growing company will typically have all it needs with a virtual private server.

Even the occasional spike in web traffic is not a solid reason to invest the full scale of your business resources on the most sophisticated servers. Virtual private servers are totally dedicated to serving small and growing businesses.

Security

When you host your business on a virtual private server, you are most likely sharing hosting service with others. As such, you may want to be concerned with what your neighbors are doing. If they become the target of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. This is due to an attack on the server because of the negligence of others on the same server, making you vulnerable.

For startups who believe they are onto a very sensitive project, dedicated servers offer the edge. This is because they are physically located and independent.

Both virtual private servers and dedicated plans are likely to have dedicated IP addresses. Dedicated IP addresses make your website less vulnerable to DDoS attacks and they offer additional benefits such as SSL (security for payment) and email marketing.

Operating Systems

When choosing your preference of servers, VPS or dedicated servers, you may want to decide how much control you want to have over the software involved. Although you can make choices in regards to the operating system installed on your server, the two major forms of operating systems are Linux and Windows. Windows hosting is typically more expensive because of higher hosting fees and licensing. Whereas, Linux is open-source and free to use. For you to use Windows, you have to obtain a license from Microsoft.

If you choose to pick Windows over Linux hosting, ensure it is because of these reasons:

You are using .Net framework

You don’t like cPanel

You are using a programming language or database that is not supported by Linux

You want Remote Desktop access to your server

You prefer control to pricing.

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With an unmanaged dedicated or virtual private server plan, the host gives you access to the server but leaves everything else like support up to you. Here, with an unmanaged server, you are solely responsible for the things related to the server’s software and continued functionality. For fully managed plans, the server hosting provider will be able to assist you with any questions and provide support when the need arises. A managed server hosting provider can be slightly more costly than an unmanaged server hosting provider, but the support included will be a positive force that most likely outweighs the negative cost implications. Newer businesses and individuals that aren’t familiar with regular server functionalities might waste a considerable amount of time and effort in continuously having to hire a third party to manage and fix their server.

In addition to deciding how much of the administrative tasks you want to handle (and are comfortable tackling), you may want to consider your budget.

Flexibility

Do you want to be able to do anything, keep your data, and move to a new system without much ado? If so, then virtual private server hosting is most likely the best option for you. The capability, downtime, and cost implications are generally less when changing between virtual servers in comparison to dedicated servers.

Scalability

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RTP Editors Share Their Top RIC18 Sessions To Watch

With the 2018 Retail Innovation Conference less than three weeks away, retailers from all over the country (and globe) will have the opportunity to hear how the industry’s most disruptive brands and innovative thinkers are raising the bar for all merchants.

The event’s keynote speeches, breakout sessions and hands-on workshops will give attendees insights, best practices and ideas that they can apply to their own retail business.

The RTP team reveals which sessions and speakers they are anticipating the most.

Debbie Hauss, Editor-in-Chief: I need to address this question on a high level. #RIC18 is offering a phenomenal two days of content that will inspire and motivate retailers to collaborate across business units and reach out to industry peers, colleagues and experts, to think differently in order to bring positive change to their organizations. What I look forward to most is enabling retailers to learn from each other in a collegial and productive environment. This year we are honored to have many C-level executives on the stage — including Rafeh Masood, Chief Digital Officer of BJ's Wholesale Club, Miki Berardelli, CEO of KIDBOX, and Romain Liot, COO of Adore Me. We'll hear from the 2018 Retail Innovator Award winners as well throughout the event. Pack up your laptops and plan to join #RIC18 for all three days, including the pre-show Store Tours on Monday, April 30. 

Adam Blair, Executive Editor: I’m looking forward to Walmart CIO Clay Johnson’s keynote presentation, Digital Transformation: Empowering Walmart Associates With Consumer-Grade Technology. I’ve been covering this industry long enough to remember just how dramatic the mindset shift was when we all realized that consumers’ technology had leapfrogged far ahead of retailer-supplied technology. Now, of course, it’s retailers’ technology that strives to be consumer-grade. It’s commonplace today to say customers come into stores with far more information about products, prices and promotions than in-store associates, but that’s a relatively recent inversion of the classic retailer-customer relationship. I’m also interested to hear how Walmart is dealing with this challenge/opportunity. The company certainly has its faults, but it’s shown a consistent desire to take risks and stay on the cutting edge of technological change — behavior that is not always typical of an enormous corporation.

Marie Griffin, Managing Editor: I can't settle on just one session! Instead, I'll point out some of the speakers that stand out to me. Danielle DiMaiolo Rendini, Senior Director of Product Management for Barneys New York, will tell us how the 95-year-old retailer continues to thrive through unique in-store events, associate empowerment and personalized customer service (Tuesday, May 1 at 12:45 pm). Jeff Gamsey, VP of Private Brands for warehouse club disruptor Boxed.com, will outline how the proprietary Prince & Spring line helped Boxed.com become a $100M+ business in just three years (Tuesday at 2:20 pm). Aaron Nilsson, Manager of Digital Experience for 128-year-old Carhartt, will talk about the brand’s move to real-time personalization and the organizational shift that went along with it (Tuesday at 3:25 pm). And Erica Yamamoto, Director of Lifecycle Marketing & Customer Experience for zulily, will let us know how the e-Commerce enterprise melded data-driven personalization with the entertainment of discovery-based shopping to get 91% of shoppers to make a repeat purchase (Wednesday, May 2 at 3:00 pm).

Glenn Taylor, Senior Editor: While he doesn’t represent a specific retailer, shopper behaviouralist Ken Hughes is sure to deliver an exceptional blueprint for handling retail’s youngest clientele, Gen Z. With conversational commerce becoming such a large part of the retail upheaval, I’m very interested in hearing Hughes discuss the steps retailers must take to move away from marketing as we know it and build further on true customer conversations. As retailers seek the elusive goal of becoming entirely customer-centric, attendees will surely benefit from Hughes’ analysis of shopper expectations. This isn’t a shot in the dark assumption either. Two years ago, Hughes spoke at #RIC16 identifying four principles retailers need to follow in order to effectively reach the disruptive “Blue Dot” consumers — Personalization, Authenticity, Contextual and Experiential (PACE) — and the keynote was a fan favorite. Hughes captivated audiences in 2016 with his touches of humor and emotion all at once, and I have no doubt that he’ll be able to do the same at #RIC18.

Klaudia Tirico, Features Editor: The Retail Innovation Conference is always such a great time and learning experience. I personally always look forward to the Store Tours, which will kick off the event this year at the Shops at Columbus Circle. Attendees will have an opportunity to learn how retailers deliver unique marketing strategies and leverage innovative technologies to make the in-store experience a memorable one for every consumer. This year, the tour will visit Amazon Books, Sugarfina, TUMI, New York Running Company by JackRabbit and Williams Sonoma. Plus, an executive from each retailer will host their respective visit. In addition to the Store Tours, I’m also looking forward to the panel titled: Influencing With Influencers: How To Win At Retail’s Hottest Marketing Trend. The session will feature influencer marketing experts such as Kamiu Lee of Activate and Patricia Hong of A.T. Kearney, as well as retail execs from Lovesac, Astral Heathy & Beauty and Love Your Melon, who will share best practices, trends, faux-pas to avoid and predictions for the future of influencer marketing. 

Bryan Wassel, Associate Editor: My pick for the must-see presentation is Digital Strategies Session: Best Practices for Building A Private Brand In The Digital Era, presented by Jeff Gamsey, VP of Private Brands at Boxed.com, Miki Berardelli, CEO at KIDBOX and Kelly Sayre, Retail/CPG Analyst at IHL Group. Private labels are still sales drivers online, as seen by the success of Brandless, but getting these brands noticed by consumers is a completely different game when you can’t take advantage of shelving and store displays to draw the customers’ eye. Price is the single most important factor for 61% of e-Commerce shoppers, and making sure a retailer’s products stand out among the endless options available across the web can improve both sales and loyalty.

Click to register to attend the Retail Innovation Conference, held at Convene in Manhattan from April 30 to May 2.

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Astral Servers Announces Powerful VPS Hosting With 20% Discounts

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Astral Servers is a rapidly evolving managed hosting service based out of Austin, Texas. The company’s cloud infrastructure is stretched across 17 different data centers in North America, and throughout Europe. They offer the best and most reliable managed virtual servers and dedicated server hosting solutions. They offer different types of powerful VPS server plans at cost-effective prices.

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Astral Servers Announces Powerful VPS Hosting With 20% Discounts for All New Customers

19, September 2017: For website owners and online businesses around the world, Astral Server now brings powerful virtual private server hosting plans at cost-effective prices. At the same time, they have discount offers for new customers. A new customer can enjoy a discount of 20% on the first payment of their vps hosting. To avail upon this offer, one just needs to use the promo code “ASTRALNEW”. According to the spokesperson of the company, they have different VPS plans designed to meet the hosting requirements of the diverse group of customers. The three main plans they are offering currently are namely: Dwarf, Giant and Bright Giant. Dwarf is the most affordable plan with 2v cores processor, 7GB RAM, 200GB disk space and 250MB unmetered bandwidth. This plan is more suitable for individual website owners, startups and SMEs. For mid-size companies with multiple websites, the company offers the Giant hosting plan that includes 4v cores processor, 15GB RAM, 400GB disk space and 250MB unmetered bandwidth. The spokesperson reveals that they can also cater to the hosting needs of big enterprises with their Bright Giant vps hosting plan. This plan offers 8v cores processor, 30GB RAM, 800GB disk space and 500MB unmetered bandwidth. Besides, all plans feature DDoS Protection to ensure the best protection for one’s hosted applications and data. All customers will also get 24/7 reactive security and 24/7 technical support. With their round-the-clock technical assistance, the hosting company endeavors to avoid any downtime. Astral brings a superior cloud hosting service at unbeatable prices and with unparalleled specs. Their public cloud is spread across 17 different data centers across the world that ensures a fast and reliable availability of the hosted applications. With an unmetered data transfer speed, the virtual private servers can efficiently run all types of applications. According to the spokesperson, they offer a 99.99% uptime guarantee and with a highly available backup the chance of data loss is mitigated. One can learn everything about the company’s virtual private servers and their specifications by visiting the website https://astralservers.com/. About Astral Server: Astral Servers is a rapidly evolving managed hosting service based out of Austin, Texas. The company’s cloud infrastructure is stretched across 17 different data centers in North America, and throughout Europe. They offer the best and most reliable managed virtual servers and dedicated server hosting solutions. They offer different types of powerful VPS server plans at cost-effective prices. For Media Contact: Company: Astral Server Email: support@astralservers.com Website: https://astralservers.com/

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Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade to VPS Hosting

Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade to VPS Hosting

Nowadays there are many different types of hosting services available, but it can sometimes be hard to choose between them all in order to find the right one suited for your needs. Many businesses and individuals who are serious about their site, business, or project are switching from shared hosting plans and onto virtual private servers, or VPS for short. Read our article, What is VPS Hosting? to learn more about what VPS hosting is.

Quite a few are making the switch from their shared hosting environment and into an isolated virtual private server. In this article we go over some of the top reasons that people are switching to a VPS host. Here is our list of Top 10 Reasons To Upgrade To VPS Hosting.

1. To Handle Higher Traffic

When a shared hosting user runs into excessive traffic it’s possible to experience slow downs that are counterproductive to server functionality. Because a shared hosting plan is as stated, shared between users, it’s possible for resources to become over-allocated, resulting in slower performance. Users and businesses who are serious about their hosting needs are looking into Virtual Private Server hosting for their upgrading requirements.

Many individuals will start with a shared hosting plan to start, but when they notice an uptick in users or require increased power, a VPS is a usually a good solution. Virtual private servers come with strong network connection speeds that have guaranteed speeds when hosted with a qualified hosting provider. Some users will be unhappy with their shared server hosting provider when their data transfer is limited and they start to get charged for extra network traffic. Another reason that users are switching to VPS hosting is because shared servers typically have slower connection speeds than virtual private servers and dedicated servers.

2. Slow Loading

While there’s definitely a number of different reasons that could impact site performance and cause slow loading times, a virtual private server is definitely an upgrade over shared hosting as it provides “dedicated” resources instead of resources that are shared. When a user opts to host a virtual private server over a shared server, they can be confident that all the server resources are theirs alone to use.

Many smaller projects will be excellent candidates for shared hosting plans, or sandbox virtual servers, but plans can have their limitations. In order to achieve the highest level of performance possible, one would most likely choose dedicated server hosting. Shared servers are usually for lower end projects, while dedicated and virtual private servers are for middle to high end projects that require additional resources. Businesses are encouraged to host with a virtual or dedicated server over a shared server for enhanced reliability, scalability, and overall performance.

3. Higher Security

Virtual private servers offer increased levels of security over shared hosting plans as users are more isolated. Virtual private servers that are held behind DDoS firewalls are always good options for those seeking enhanced security opposed to their shared platform. Businesses and individuals who want root access to their server should opt for a dedicated or virtual private server as shared servers don’t generally offer users root access.

The benefits of an isolated server environment are many, but the most important aspect is the fact that end users are isolated from one another. This means that dedicated and virtual private servers offer increased levels of security over shared hosting platforms, where users are sharing resources in shared environments.

4. Higher Reliability

Virtual private servers provide enhanced levels of reliability over shared hosting servers. Here at Astral Servers, all of our shared sandbox virtual servers come with a 99.9% uptime guarantee, while all of our virtual private servers come with a 99.999% uptime guarantee. Many other server hosting providers offer similar uptime guarantees for their shared and VPS plans. That being said, in addition to uptime, a dedicated or virtual private server will allows customers to have their own isolated environments without having to share server resources.

Not only are dedicated and virtual private servers more reliable because they generally provide higher levels of uptime, but they also provide customers with dedicated IP address. With shared server hosting plans, users are not only sharing server resources, but they are also sharing an IP address. This could be bad for many reasons, but one example could be: a business owner and a spammer are on the same shared server with the same shared IP address. While the spammer harms the reputation of the IP address, it will also negatively effect the business owner who shares it, unbeknownst to them.

5. Highly Scalable

Virtual private servers offer enhanced levels of scalability over shared hosting plans. Individuals and businesses can choose to scale their virtual private server up or down based on usage requirements, traffic, and overall needs. Generally VPS hosting is more scalable in nature than shared server hosting as it offers plans with higher levels of specifications. Virtual private servers are often touted as being more scalable than dedicated server hosting also, and with good reason.

Comparing a virtual server to a bare-metal one, a virtual machine can be scaled up or down through software opposed to physically changing out hardware in the datacenter. This means a VPS can be restarted after changes are made for instant effect, versus dedicated servers which require technicians to physically interact with them in the datacenters to apply the upgrade in person. For this reason virtual private servers are extremely scalable and provide lower levels of downtime than a dedicated server would, in regards to server upgrades or downgrades.

6. More Affordable than Dedicated Servers Hosting

Virtual private servers are considered by many to be the more affordable option when compared to a dedicated server. While hosting a dedicated server offers many different benefits and advantages, such as increased levels of power and network capabilities, virtual servers are often the middle-ground between a dedicated server and a shared server.

VPS hosting is highly affordable and often utilized by those who are seeking the benefits offered by a dedicated server, but while remaining on a budget. Those who want to upgrade to a dedicated server generally come from a virtual private server beforehand, unless there’s specific project requirement in mind, a large budget, or extreme power and internet capabilities are required.

7. More Flexibility

Many consider virtual private server hosting to be the more flexible option as opposed to shared server hosting, and there’s definitely many reasons to think so. Virtual private server hosting can provide users with a quick and easy option to scale their server up or down based on usage requirements. With a shared server hosting plan, the server specifications are often low, and with a virtual private server, there’s much more room to improve as needed. Shared servers typically don’t provide root access while virtual private server hosting and dedicated server hosting will.

8. More Resources

Shared server hosting is great for small projects or short term developments, but for extended projects or websites that expect a lasting internet presence, a virtual private server is often preferred. Generally virtual private server plans and dedicated server plans will provide much more resources than shared server hosting plans. When switching from a shared server to a VPS, without having to share server resources, users can typically feel the difference in their website, applications, programs, or other web apps.

9. More Storage Than Shared Hosting

Shared server hosting has its limitations, and one of those is often limited storage capacity. Dedicated servers usually offer the highest levels of storage capabilities, nowadays usually in the Terabytes, while shared servers are usually much less. Virtual private server hosting provides a nice middle-ground between shared and dedicated server storage capabilities.

10. More Bandwidth

A good thing to look for in a VPS host is a VPS with guaranteed network connection speeds, preferably without data limits. Many shared server hosting providers set data transfer limits or charge a premium for extra data sent over their network after a limit has been reached. Individuals, developers, and businesses who want powerful, reliable, and strong bandwidth connections are encouraged to seek hosting with a virtual private server or a dedicated server as opposed to a shared server.

Summary

There are certainly different reasons that one might opt for a virtual private server as opposed to a shared server, but there are also many advantages that VPS hosting might provide over dedicated server hosting. Every type of hosting service has it’s own unique strengths and weaknesses, and that’s why customers are encouraged to learn all they can about their individual hosting needs before they commit to a specific server host.

Users who seek enhanced levels of support for their virtual private server should consider a managed virtual private server host as opposed to an unmanaged one. Businesses and individuals alike who are seeking to reduce spending on outsourced IT costs are finding that managed server hosting is an ideal option for them when it comes to saving money. While every company will be different, and offer different managed services, you can read more about the managed services that we provide here at Astral Servers on our Managed Services page.

Read more of our Top Lists:

Top 10 Things You Can Do With A Dedicated Server

Top 5 Reasons To Get VPS Hosting

Top 5 Advantages of Dedicated Server Hosting

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