MiCarl
Member
I have a couple domains on a shared hosting plan. One is for a club and the other is for my business. Total storage is less than 2GB. Bandwidth usage is non-existent, but I do peg the CPU a few seconds/day. All told it is 2 static(mostly) web sites, a forum and a homemade business app built in PHP/MySQL. Until a couple months ago it's been very good and a real steal at under $5/month.
Then they upgraded the server. For whatever reason it's painfully slow more than not. Fortunately it's my off season but I need that business app to be responsive come spring. I decided a VPS was probably the way to go so I would have consistent and predictable performance. Still it was a painful decision because a managed VPS is at least 8x the price.
Based on a recommendation from someone I know who runs a very large forum with hundreds of users at any time I decided to look at KnownHost. Today I purchased a VPS-2. I added some DNS records at the other host to point here, moved a copy of my application and database and tried it out.
As I write this the, instance on the shared hosting plan is performing pretty well. The one on the VPS-2 is noticeably faster. And the one on the VPS-2 should perform like this 24/7/365! Woohoo!
For any potential new customers considering the move:
- I have been out of IT for 20 years, I was trained on punch cards (if you know what those are). All of my "modern" skills were self developed taking care of that shared hosting plan for five years.
- I really struggled with the decision to buy a cpanel license. Cpanel alone costs more than my shared plan. All in all though it was very nice to be able to work in the familiar environment to set this up.
- The only real challenge was figuring out how to create a hosting account in cpanel. Once I got that set up it was pretty much the same things I've been doing for years.
In summary, so far I'm very happy with my purchase!
Then they upgraded the server. For whatever reason it's painfully slow more than not. Fortunately it's my off season but I need that business app to be responsive come spring. I decided a VPS was probably the way to go so I would have consistent and predictable performance. Still it was a painful decision because a managed VPS is at least 8x the price.
Based on a recommendation from someone I know who runs a very large forum with hundreds of users at any time I decided to look at KnownHost. Today I purchased a VPS-2. I added some DNS records at the other host to point here, moved a copy of my application and database and tried it out.
As I write this the, instance on the shared hosting plan is performing pretty well. The one on the VPS-2 is noticeably faster. And the one on the VPS-2 should perform like this 24/7/365! Woohoo!
For any potential new customers considering the move:
- I have been out of IT for 20 years, I was trained on punch cards (if you know what those are). All of my "modern" skills were self developed taking care of that shared hosting plan for five years.
- I really struggled with the decision to buy a cpanel license. Cpanel alone costs more than my shared plan. All in all though it was very nice to be able to work in the familiar environment to set this up.
- The only real challenge was figuring out how to create a hosting account in cpanel. Once I got that set up it was pretty much the same things I've been doing for years.
In summary, so far I'm very happy with my purchase!