It was time to switch servers, since shared hosting wasn’t cutting it anymore, rather a VPS was going to be the next upgrade.  So since switching from shared hosting, to my new VPS server, everything is going faster, smoothy, and after a week of frustration, most of my domains have been switched over to a VPS (virtual private server).

When exactly should you switch servers?

When you notice that your current server just doesn’t take the current traffic and load being sent to it.  You wouldn’t want to walk around with a glass filled to the top, and neither should you have a hosting plan that nearly filled to the top.  You’ll get downtime, errors, and server downtime which is going to cost you money.

My History of Servers

I started out with Blogger (dumb idea), switched to my own domain and used the free blogger hosting. This left me feeling unsatsified as blogger, though customizable, still leaves out a lot to be desired.

Switched to Godaddy, everything was running smooth until I tried added some scripts, that’s a big No Daddy as they immediately suspended my service leaving everything shut down (quite a lot of lost ad revenue.)

Needed to switch from Godaddy, shared hosting just wasn’t cutting it anymore.  Site was loading slow, getting too many connection errors, and occasional random downtime.

Settled with 1and1 VPS, a much faster more customizable server. Besides the pain of installing everything again, and loading incredible large mysql databases, everything is switched and running a lot faster.  Time to load some scripts up!

Before switching to VPS….

Keep in mind that this is no shared hosting.  Everything is going to get more complicated, and there is no basic instruction guide to get going.  You may need to hire someone to do it for you, but this also won’t be cheap.  But, it hopefully will be a one time deal, and once you get running your blog will run better than ever.