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Shared vs. dedicated vs. VPS / Virtual Private hosting?

I'm currently on shared and would like to get more control over my host so that I can install various software and increase the functionality of my site. Faster db queries and whatnot with dedicated resources would be a nice plus! My problem is I don't have the traffic or resources to justify a dedicated box. I'm wondering if a VPS or virtualized host would be a good interim solution. This should definitely allow me to install my software, but I'm wondering if the performance would be any better with a relatively small virtual slice (256MB dedicated ram and a small chunk of the CPU reserved).

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1. VPSs main selling point is indeed control without dedicated's price, and you're almost certain to get more cpu/memory per user on the host server than with shared hosting. Even a 256mb will perform at least as good as shared hosting, and sounds like a good interim solution to me If you're buying a VPS, bear in mind they require some technical knowledge, although some come preinstalled with a control panel such as cpanel, directadmin or plesk. Another thing to note is how the VPSs are provisioned. Virtuozzo VPSs allow the companies to oversell and this can in some cases result in extremely slow VPSs. Look out for a Xen-powered VPS as this cannot be oversold so you can be sure your part of the host OS resources really has been allocated to you. Feel free to contact me for more info