About to VPS from Reseller? HELP!

[TTFB]

Hey everybody.

My buddies and I run a baseball news website that is growing quicker than we ever expected. We were just accepted into Google News last week and, as a result, our traffic has been spiking -- really taxing our current setup.

Currently, the website is hosted on my reseller account with HG. I have the site set up as such (:

Disk Usage Allowance: 5 GB
Bandwidth: 80 GB

We are ever so close to using up 5 GB of disk space (pictures on all the blog posts are eating this up). Additionally, we are coming very close to the 75 GB a month in bandwidth. And, with the increase in traffic from Google News, I'm assuming that we are going to be going over that threshold in the not too distant future.

In the end, I'm debating about moving this website from my reseller account of placing it on a HG VPS system. The Level 3 to be specific.

I know the disk usage is a lot more with the Level 3. And the bandwidth allowance will give us plenty of space to grow and increase traffic even further.

One question I do have, though: The level 3 VPS list the CPU at 1.13GHz. When I look at my reseller account, it shows that I Have ten (?) processors running at 2.40GHz. Does this mean that the VPS is going to be even slower than my current reseller account? As it is, the backend of Wordpress takes forever to load. When we submit a new posts, it seriously takes 30 seconds for everything to process. Will upgrading to a VPS help or hurt this even further?

So, the grand question to be answered: would upgrading to a VPS server for this individual website be a step-up? A neutral move? Or maybe even a step down?

Any insight and/or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[TTFB]

... oh, and excuse the typo in the thread's title.

Did not catch it in time and there does not seem to be an 'edit' option on this forums.

Sorry!

[GatorSteveN]

VPS are more for root access to install custom software than more traffic.

http://support.hostgator.com/article...nded-on-shared

[ixape]

The processors you see on the reseller server will be shared with hundreds of other accounts - So moving to a VPS will help slow issues.

However I'd recommend Level 4 for something like your site.

[alemcherry]

GatorSteveN is right- since the shared hosting being ultra competitive, most shared hosting accounts will allow you more resources than a low end VPS before asking you to upgrade. However your case being a reseller and bandwidth / space usage being not that high, I guess VPS will be an improvement. Normal shared hosting accounts allow huge space and bandwidth, so your case is different and moving to a VPS must help.

Level 3 might be good enough, or at least you can try it before upgrading to Level 4 etc. More CPU and RAM should help, even thoguh it is difficult to say which config is right for you.

[ixape]

Originally Posted by alemcherry

GatorSteveN is right- since the shared hosting being ultra competitive, most shared hosting accounts will allow you more resources than a low end VPS before asking you to upgrade. However your case being a reseller and bandwidth / space usage being not that high, I guess VPS will be an improvement. Normal shared hosting accounts allow huge space and bandwidth, so your case is different and moving to a VPS must help.

Level 3 might be good enough, or at least you can try it before upgrading to Level 4 etc. More CPU and RAM should help, even thoguh it is difficult to say which config is right for you.

Yes - Good suggestion.

Shared hosting offers unmetered use of disk space and bandwidth so this may be an option for the OP.