Best VPS hosting
A VPS is not automatically faster than shared hosting. It is more yours. Guaranteed resources, root if you want it, and nobody else’s traffic spike becoming your problem — in exchange for real, ongoing responsibility.
How this shortlist is built
- Guaranteed CPU and memory rather than shared allowances
- A managed option for people who do not want to patch servers
- Scaling without rebuilding the machine
- Snapshots and backups included or easily added
Providers qualify by meeting the criteria, then sort by Hostoholic Score. Commission is not an input — see the methodology.
Ratings in progress: 1 of these 1 providers have full capability data but no numeric score yet, so ordering within the list is provisional. We would rather say that than publish a number we have not earned.
Some links here are affiliate links — if you buy through one we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. It never changes a Hostoholic Score.
Managed cloud hosting layered over DigitalOcean, Vultr, AWS and GCP
Before you choose
Worth knowing
Managed or unmanaged is the real decision
An unmanaged VPS is a different job, not an upgrade. If you do not want to own security patching and 2am recovery, buy managed and treat it as a legitimate engineering decision.
FAQ
Common questions
When should I move from shared hosting to a VPS?
When you are hitting resource limits in your control panel, need something shared hosting will not allow, or downtime costs you money. "It feels slow" is usually images or plugins, not the server.
Still weighing it up?
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