I can not stress the value of fast loading websites, but the problem is most people don’t know what server to get.  So I’m going to go through the history of the servers that clickfornick has been under in the hopes that your question of what kind of server your blog needs can be answered.

1. Started with Blogger

Blogger is a good service, free and no costs.  You can’t ask for much more, however, there is no way to really back up your files, and limited customization.

2. Godaddy Shared Hosting

Shared hosting works fine and when I was getting about 10,000 page impressions per day it worked.  It was however a bit slow at times.  Cost of shared hosting is extremely cheap, only $6 a month usually.

3. 1 and 1 VPS 1 Hosting

This worked fine when my site started getting 20 -30,000 impressions per day, but randomly the server would just go extremely slow or even shut down. This was not fun.

4. 1 and 1 VPS 2 Hosting

Now I am down to paying around $40 per month for a faster server and more space.  So far this site seems to be loading faster and hasn’t had any problems so far.

When Asking Yourself What Kind of Server You Need the Answer is:

More than you can handle.  It’s not good to have a server that sometimes crashes or is just what you need to handle your blog.  Be safe and pay for more than you would ever consume.