Shared Hosting vs VPS vs Dedicated — Old School Meets New School
Compare traditional hosting models with modern cloud platforms, understand when each matters, and learn the migration path from GoDaddy to AWS.
Before "the cloud" was a marketing term, people hosted websites the straightforward way: you rented space on a computer in a data center. The only question was how much of that computer you got.
This model never went away. Millions of websites — maybe even one you manage — still run on shared hosting from providers like GoDaddy, Bluehost, or HostGator. Understanding these older models is not just history. It is practical knowledge, because you will encounter them in the wild, and knowing when to stay versus when to migrate can save your client thousands of dollars and months of headaches.
The Three Traditional Tiers
Shared hosting is an apartment building. You and dozens (or hundreds) of other tenants share the same server — same CPU, same RAM, same disk. Your WordPress site liv
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