[humanpuff69]

@humanpuff69

Well vps hosting is not for everyone. Years back biggest issue was the price but not anymore. You can buy one for cheaper than a shared hosting account. But there are other things which makes Shared hosting is better for some users.

Like for someone like a business owner who just want his site hosted in a secure place with good support. Or affiliate marketer who prefer to focus on this work rather than spending time with hosting related technical stuff etc.

When it comes to Shared Hosting, Server security and maintenance taken cared by the provider. So you don't have to keep an eye on these stuff. You can use that time to develop your business. Even if you out grow your shared hosting account then you can move to a managed vps if your business is profitable enough. Plus you get to use cPanel in almost all shared hosting packages which is more advance and lot easier to use than all free control panels out there.

I have several vps which I run by my self but my most important sites and clients sites are hosted in a Knownhost managed vps. They do have specilized people there who know about servers better than by self. So I don't have to worry about anything apart from taking backups.

yes vps is not for everyone . because it is harder to configure even though its give the best flexibility . even my first website is host on shared hosting because well it is easier and just work . and yes price is also the problem . even though i say some vps already cheaper but if you compare most of famous shared hosting have unlimited fair use bandwidht and also unlimited fair use disk space . that mean that you dont really need to worry about space but you cannot make file hosting with it because it is against the fair use . bandwidth also cannot be used for illegal project like for example ddosing

and also i see the cPanel alternative and most of them doesnt have the familiarity and so if i win the vps from this forum (post4vps) i will host my website without any control panel with it because i dont see any cPanel alternative that is easy to use because i see the ui is rather confusing (except kloxo . but kloxo is already dead so i dont think i will use that because of security reason. kloxo is the nearest to cPanel in term of familiarity and ui) . i will just install LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL and PHP) for my server and that its .

for backup i think you can just set cron jobs to backup or maybe use a backup program or something like that