I am currently on GoDaddy shared hosting. They give me 32 mb of ram from what I heard that I can use. So I am just wondering, based on the amount of people that visit your site in one day, when would you upgrade to VPS and then dedicated?
If at any point your site will start consuming more than the allowed resources limit then your users will probably receive some sort of errors or probably godaddy will tell you that you'll need to upgrade to their VPS or Dedicated Servers. So unless your site isn't giving out errors (such as 500 internal error) or if godaddy isn't saying anything to you about an upgrade, then you should be fine with their shared hosting plan for now.
How can VPS be better than dedicated ? If you're saying about the price, then yes it is, but I'm sure dedicated is better for performance
A VPS can be better in many ways. A dedicated server doesn't necessarily have better performance because that comes down to the hardware. A VPS on a dual quad-core, 32GB Ram, 128MB RAID Controller with 15K SAS drives, will have a greater performance potential than a dual-quad core, 8GB, 750GB SATA dedicated server that seems to a common specification. A VPS also makes 1. Moving to different/upgraded hardware much easier 2. Clustering over 2, 3 or more servers is much easier for High Availabiltiy or Load Balancing 3. It's easier to work with SAN's, and clustered SANs, with a VPS due to most VPS software natively supporting this technology 4. Uptime is likely to be better due to the transportability of the VPS, clustering, and SANs 5. Many modern hypervisors are tiny so native hardware performance is pretty much available to the VPS 6. They can be cheaper than dedicated for low-end VPSs, but higher-end, clustered VPSs, with clustered SANs can be several times more expensive than a high-spec dedicated server. VPSs aren't the one-fix solution many people seems to think they are, or the step between shared hosting and dedicated servers. They are just another solution that is available. There are times when shared hosting is more appropriate, other times when a VPS would be the best deal, and other times when a dedicated server is the solution. It depends on what you are trying to achieve, your budget, the technologies available, and your access to expertise.
It is a great explanation! Yes I do agree if you do compare a low end dedicated server using SATA hard drive and a high end VPS using SAS drive, but if both of them using a same SAS drives, I do really think dedicated is more reliable. 2nd one, on dedicated server we can get a dedicated bandwidth. I don't think we can get that on VPS. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I think you should use shared hosting for your site...and when you pass 1000 visitors per day, if some problems appear, just buy a VPS....you can find awesome ones for just 20$ pe month
When my Drupal-based site started getting several thousand visitors per day it, it started slowing down at peak times, and throwing errors, etc.. So i moved from a $6/month shared plan to a ~$200/mo dedicated server. Since the site was already generating in excess of $2k/mo, it was an easy choice to make.
It's a pleasure to hear from someone with a bit of sense and who understands that the more money you make from you site the more you should be spending on protecting the performance and availability. I've seen too many people making a lot of money on a site and hosting it on a cheap shared hosting platform, only to see it all fall to pieces when something goes wrong. If your site is valuable you should be spending a decent percentage of the income on making sure it stays online because every hour it is down is costing.