Wondering if moving to a VPS is suppose to increase your loading time? I moved from Hostgator's Baby Shared to their VPS. I was hoping for a lot faster loading time for my site. So far haven't seen a difference. Also seems like I'm not getting the traffic I use to get when I make new posts. All my SERP's stayed the same so that's not the reason. So it looks like I'm paying an extra $41 a month over the Shared Plan for no better(or worse) results. Has anyone had this happen or could explain the VPS to me better? Thanks
See.. VPS never better than Shared at all the time. On VPS some place is good like more storage or CPU load. Not the site loading exactly depends on it.. Where is your vps hosted this is does matter. You can say.. Every thing depends on Dedicated server and network connections
when you move from a shared host to a vps you are going to drop down to less ram so you may notice a small drop in response time. Although VPS is better than shared hosting when managed well. IF you bought managed vps, ask you host to tweak the vps to meet your requirements. They will do it for you. If it's unmanaged try to tweak apache settings and Mysql to make it faster loading. A small 128mb vps can handle wordpress site with daily 10k traffic.
The hosting provider may use a more powerful server for shared hosting accounts, where VPS really wins is CPU and emailing options as hosts may limit the amount of emails that can be sent under a shared account. Another plus that VPS is a more controllable environment for a web master.
Depends on your site of course - but check you have not got a performance bottleneck outside of the hosting environment e.g. in your mysql database or php code. You could have a dedicated server with gigs of ram but if you dont have the right indexes on your database for example it will crawl.
In my experience with VPS and shared hosting you dont find much difference in speed in a VPS than a shared server because the VPS node you might be purchasing will be already oversold and will give performance less than or equal to a shared hosting. Try some good managed VPS providers like Servint, Liquidweb etc there you will not face this overselling and your sites performance will be great. Also VPS will not decrease the speed of the server a good VPS obviously should increase the speed, low cost VPS nodes are mostly oversold so they will be slower but they give lot of flexibility to control the way the site runs.
Only premium class VPS will give you increased performance. I would recommend you to go with a good managed provider.
Some VPS systems can't be over-sold due to RAM, CPU, or Disk constraints. We operate Hyper-V R2 (Windows) and once you allocate RAM or diskspace it's "gone" and can't be used by anyone else. Why people think a VPS will provide better performance than shared hosting continues to baffle me.....unless you are purchasing a very high end VPS. Put it this way, our newest shared hosting servers operate with 16 logical CPU cores (2 x Westmere CPUs), 64GB Ram, and RAID1 OS with RAID10 web site disks and 256MB Hardware Raid controllers, and we don't usually host more than 200-300 sites on them. When you compare a low-end VPS with 512MB Ram and a share of 1 CPU, or even a medium-range VPS with 2 CPU's and 4GB of RAM, there's no comparison in performance capabilities between our shared hosting servers and these VPSs. The shared hosting server will outperform them every time. VPSs provide many benefits, but not necessarily better performance.
I suppose that will depend on the company you are going to deal with. And the VPS configuration. And only testing will help you to understand that issue better.
Exactly, it's wise to move to vps when you start using custom applications and meet the limitations of a shared hosting account. Also good to start learning the ropes of hosting before moving to dedicated.
Moving to a VPS will NOT improve your SE ranking. VPS is about working in an isolated software environment and about using guaranteed resources. However if you can not configure the virtual server properly or if you can not manage it, it might not have a good performance!
Well @fcolor you are totally right. Actually if you are shared hosting user and not very familiar with VPS then I guess you better to have managed VPS hosting or hire the admin who knows what he is doing. In many cases the end-users without any knowledge just end up with many questions, but in some way it is better for your self if you want to learn something about it. Also, good shared hosting can has the same impact as VPS as longest you have your website optimized property and that is the main thing. Actually doing some CSS tuning like sprites, combining java and css in one file will help you to get very good I should say exllent reslt if you are trying to avoid onsite optimization you will have to order dedicated server that will not help either. In another words start from simple things, but not from sky high solutions
Where are you located? If you are located in Europe it's better to choose a hosting company with servers in Europe. Not only will this increase your website load time for you and your European visitors but you will also increase your local Google SERPS. Hostgator is USA hosting and thus changing servers with them isn't really going to give you a significant boost in loading time or SERPS. What you need to do is change your site to a datacenter closer to you.
I didn't say it would. Said it didn't effect my rankings as in dropping, so no loss of traffic from that SE.