Happy New Year 2024, everyone.
I've been using Hostgator's shared hosting for the last 10 years and generally speaking, I haven't really had any issues with them, because reliability and speed wasn't too much of a concern for me...
Now when I'm running an e-commerce website and spending money on Google Shopping Ads to get paid traffic, it's really frustrating to see the website loading for like 10 seconds sometimes or even occasionally getting random internal server errors, which is what I've experienced recently and decided that it's time to make a move to VPS hosting.
I tried searching the forum before creating a thread, but couldn't really find any previous threads where this has been discussed in depth. Also did some research on Google and I've got a rough idea what I need, but wanted to hear your thoughts.
So the website doesn't get a huge amount of traffic - in fact, it's only 200-300 visitors/day, most of it is from Google Shopping Ads, but because I'm spending money on traffic, I can't afford to have a slow website or any major downtimes, as obviously this affects the sales/profit, etc.
VPS hosting seems to be the best way forward, as Dedicated sounds too complicated, it's too pricy and I don't think it's something that I need with my level of traffic. After doing some reading, it turns out that you've got Managed VPS hosting and Unmanaged.
My experience of running a server is absolutely ZERO, so basically what I want is a fully managed/maintained server with a cPanel, so I can access the server and do my basic stuff, like I would with Shared hosting, and I also need an SSL certificate included to have a "Secure" site in the eyes of Google. I believe the Email service is included with a cPanel, so can't really think of anything else that I need?
I kind of narrowed my choice down to a few providers, but just wanted to know what setup you guys are running on your e-commerce website?
LiquidWeb seems to be the most reputable provider and the price is quite competitive, but it looks like there's using InterWorx Control Panel and it also doesn't say if SSL is included or not?
BlueHost is also a popular choice, but again it's not clear about SSL, and I can't figure if their VPS hosting is fully managed or not? A2Hosting has the most clear package, which lists everything that's included, but I haven't really heard of them much? Anyone got experience with them? Possibly anyone else you would recommend based on my requirements?
Thanks for your help
I've been using Hostgator's shared hosting for the last 10 years and generally speaking, I haven't really had any issues with them, because reliability and speed wasn't too much of a concern for me...
Now when I'm running an e-commerce website and spending money on Google Shopping Ads to get paid traffic, it's really frustrating to see the website loading for like 10 seconds sometimes or even occasionally getting random internal server errors, which is what I've experienced recently and decided that it's time to make a move to VPS hosting.
I tried searching the forum before creating a thread, but couldn't really find any previous threads where this has been discussed in depth. Also did some research on Google and I've got a rough idea what I need, but wanted to hear your thoughts.
So the website doesn't get a huge amount of traffic - in fact, it's only 200-300 visitors/day, most of it is from Google Shopping Ads, but because I'm spending money on traffic, I can't afford to have a slow website or any major downtimes, as obviously this affects the sales/profit, etc.
VPS hosting seems to be the best way forward, as Dedicated sounds too complicated, it's too pricy and I don't think it's something that I need with my level of traffic. After doing some reading, it turns out that you've got Managed VPS hosting and Unmanaged.
My experience of running a server is absolutely ZERO, so basically what I want is a fully managed/maintained server with a cPanel, so I can access the server and do my basic stuff, like I would with Shared hosting, and I also need an SSL certificate included to have a "Secure" site in the eyes of Google. I believe the Email service is included with a cPanel, so can't really think of anything else that I need?
I kind of narrowed my choice down to a few providers, but just wanted to know what setup you guys are running on your e-commerce website?
LiquidWeb seems to be the most reputable provider and the price is quite competitive, but it looks like there's using InterWorx Control Panel and it also doesn't say if SSL is included or not?
BlueHost is also a popular choice, but again it's not clear about SSL, and I can't figure if their VPS hosting is fully managed or not? A2Hosting has the most clear package, which lists everything that's included, but I haven't really heard of them much? Anyone got experience with them? Possibly anyone else you would recommend based on my requirements?
Thanks for your help
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