Short answer
Shared hosting is enough for the overwhelming majority of sites. Move to a VPS when you genuinely need root access, custom server software, or consistent resources under sustained load — not because a site feels slow, which is nearly always caching or image sizes.
This is a general web-hosting explanation, not specific to Traxio.
The hidden cost of a VPS is that you become the system administrator: security patches, backups and a misconfiguration taking the site down are all yours. That is a fair trade when you need the control and a poor one when you do not.
Learn more
- Shared hosting vs VPS vs dedicated serversHow shared hosting, virtual private servers and dedicated servers differ in cost, control, performance and the skills they need.
- Understanding your hosting limitsWhat disk space, bandwidth, CPU, memory, entry processes, I/O and inodes mean on shared hosting, and what happens when a site reaches a limit.
- Why is my website slow?A methodical way to find why a website is slow — server response, page weight, third-party scripts or distance — and what to fix first.
Traxio is simple, self-managed web hosting for 99p a month: the first 30 days are free with no card, then £0.99 a month.