Most people with a website in Canada will have theirs on a shared web hosting plan. It’s the most affordable way to have a site hosted so that it’s always up and available on the Internet, and that’s an absolute need if your website is serving your business. If you can get by with shared hosting and don’t need a VPS then that’s great and it is certainly the most cost-effective means of doing it. But the primary potential shortcoming of shared hosting is the possibility of not having enough bandwidth available for your site if the other sites hosted on the same server are also busy at the same time. The option to upgrade hosting plan for better performance is something you can do if that’s a recurring issue. Even with the best shared hosting plan in Canada this can be what leads website owners to have to reconsider their plan. If that’s the case for you then the good news is that it’s not that much of price jump to switch to VPS hosting, and like most Canadian web hosting providers we have a number of clients who do that every month. With this blog entry though we’re going to look at what can be done too maximize website performance with shared hosting. Anyone who has their site hosted through us is going to have cPanel access to monitor their site’s performance as well as make functional changes to it, and so the question becomes what are those changes that can be made to improve performance. Some of that may also be related to the infrastructure of the site and the reason that most providers will put most of their focus on Linux web hosting is because it’s the best ‘fit’ for most websites based on the way they’ve been assembled. That likely applies to your website too, and if you have a Linux shared web hosting plan through us then you’ll already be getting better website performance based on our ultra-fast Hexa Core Xeon servers. This alone may be the reason that you don’t need to upgrade hosting plan for better performance, 1 Gbps (gigabyte-per-second) port speed...
