The right time of switching to a VPS server depends upon the specific needs of a business or an individual webmaster. Especially when a business is growing fast, wants more control on data stored, more access to bandwidth, and faster load time, VPS server are needed. Though there are no hard and fast rules, some general rule of thumb can be followed.
There are 4 thumb rules that may be followed for choosing the right time to switch to a VPS server from a shared one and they are:
#1 is your site’s average traffic increase rate over 30 per cent? If yes, please switch to a more secured and dedicated environment, say a
VPS hosting#2 Is your daily page view crossing 8,000 per day? If yes, you know the answer.
#3 Is your site generating lots of money? And you don’t want your site to be down for even 10 seconds? If the answers are yes, VPS is the most affordable solution you have.
#4 With several plugins in place, is your site’s loading time slowing down? If yes, please switch over from a
shared hosting solution to a VPS server.