How long were you on Shared Hosting?

[Shawn Gossman1]

How long was you able to keep your forum on shared hosting before you had to upgrade to a VPS?

 

[Tracy]

About 2 days... and got tired of HostGator and turned that gator into a wallet and kicked the rest of it's bleeding carcass to the curb.
The performance was WELL below what I expected... so it wasn't a "my site got to big" issue... but a "this hosting provider runs like a sloth" issue.

 

[Shawn Gossman1]

About 2 days... and got tired of HostGator and turned that gator into a wallet and kicked the rest of it's bleeding carcass to the curb.
The performance was WELL below what I expected... so it wasn't a "my site got to big" issue... but a "this hosting provider runs like a sloth" issue.

I remember being on Host Gator for a very short time. It was shared and I remember it wasn't very good.

DreamHost also doesn't have good shared hosting, or they didn't 15 years ago at least.

I use their VPS and it's mostly wonderful.

I didn't stay on shared for too long. I'd rather pay the higher costs for something that doesn't crash on a weekly basis.

 

[Tracy]

I use their VPS and it's mostly wonderful.

So far, I've been VERY pleased with my Hetzner VPS. The nice thing it's large enough, I'm thinking about adding ElasticSearch to my site.