Should I switch my webhost to Bluehost from Godaddy?
Posted: 15 Aug 2013, 15:39
Decision time!
Should I move my sites from Godaddy to Bluehost? I just talked to Bluehost by Live Chat. They said they could move all my sites over to their hosting servers for a flat fee of $99. Meaning, they would do all the migration work for me.
Another issue:
Should I get us on a VPS (Virtual Private Server) or upgrade to a better shared hosting plan? A VPS puts you on a server with a few other accounts, but each account gets its own memory and RAM so it does not hog each other's memory. It's like a smaller version of a dedicated server and it costs about $29 for the economy plan.
VPS hosting under both Bluehost and Godaddy start at $29 for the economy package.
Nowadays, cloud hosting is expanding resources on shared hosting to improve it. So I could upgrade to cloud hosting for a few dollars more.
But many webmasters, including my friend, said that they had huge spikes in traffic after moving to VPS hosting, and big increases in income too.
The thing is, right now we are on a shared hosting plan with 1,000 other websites on the same server. That's probably why there are page loading errors and slow loading speeds here. We need to upgrade either way, either to cloud shared hosting or VPS hosting.
The Bluehost rep told me that shared hosting should be fine for this site, after I told him that I get 3,000 visitors a day on my main site, HappierAbroad, but usually only about 50-60 people are simultaneously online during the daytime and early evening.
What do you all think?
Should I move my sites from Godaddy to Bluehost? I just talked to Bluehost by Live Chat. They said they could move all my sites over to their hosting servers for a flat fee of $99. Meaning, they would do all the migration work for me.
Another issue:
Should I get us on a VPS (Virtual Private Server) or upgrade to a better shared hosting plan? A VPS puts you on a server with a few other accounts, but each account gets its own memory and RAM so it does not hog each other's memory. It's like a smaller version of a dedicated server and it costs about $29 for the economy plan.
VPS hosting under both Bluehost and Godaddy start at $29 for the economy package.
Nowadays, cloud hosting is expanding resources on shared hosting to improve it. So I could upgrade to cloud hosting for a few dollars more.
But many webmasters, including my friend, said that they had huge spikes in traffic after moving to VPS hosting, and big increases in income too.
The thing is, right now we are on a shared hosting plan with 1,000 other websites on the same server. That's probably why there are page loading errors and slow loading speeds here. We need to upgrade either way, either to cloud shared hosting or VPS hosting.
The Bluehost rep told me that shared hosting should be fine for this site, after I told him that I get 3,000 visitors a day on my main site, HappierAbroad, but usually only about 50-60 people are simultaneously online during the daytime and early evening.
What do you all think?