Signs your site has outgrown shared hosting and a step-by-step guide to migrating to a VPS without downtime.
Pages load slowly even after caching and optimization
You get "resource limit exceeded" emails from your host
Your traffic exceeds 10,000 monthly visitors
You need to install custom software or PHP extensions
You run multiple high-traffic websites
A VPS gives you a guaranteed slice of server resources — CPU, RAM, and disk I/O. Your site's performance won't be affected by other sites on the same physical machine.
Back up all files and databases from your shared host
Set up your VPS with HestiaCP or Plesk
Upload files and import databases
Test everything with a hosts file edit before changing DNS
Update nameservers and wait for propagation
Sofia Petrov
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