What will replace shared hosting?

Chris Worner · Sep 16, 2016

There are too many alternatives right now. VPS, Cloud and dedicated server are the biggest challengers. But first of all, you should even wonder how long people will continue to do just standard web hosting. What will replace shared hosting?

LJSHost · Sep 16, 2016

VPS are getting cheaper year after year but I believe shared hosting will have a place until VPS services reach a price close to a shared plan. However control panel and CloudLinux licenses will keep the price above shared hosting.
Shared hosting has plenty of life left but cloud container based services will replace it in time. Dedicated servers will be the first thing to go, keeping your server on a cloud has so many advantages.

CyberHour · Sep 16, 2016

Please allow me to disagree with you , VPS are not getting cheaper year after year like you say . What does go cheaper is the quality

. PERIOD!
Premium bandwidth , fast SSD disks , fast CPU(s) and high DDOS protection is something that will never get cheaper like shared hosting.

Cloud has as many advantages as disadvantages. Now if with cloud you mean private cloud then ok

Anyway Shared Hosting is here to stay for long time

CyberHour · Sep 16, 2016

VirtuBox,
What we know is that for the last 5 months we have a lot of new customers coming from DigitalOcean , OVH and other known and unknown providers around USA and Europe.

Not to mention that most of them are advertising XX amount of RAM (from which over 50% burst ).

What about the CORE(s) (type and frequency ) , VPS with 2 core(s) of 1Ghz is not the same with VPS with 2 core(s) of 3.4Ghz, right? From our knowledge DigitalOcean CPU(s) are at ~1.86Ghz

DDOS protection & Premium bandwidth is must have those days which is not cheap at all.

So yes, the VPS goes cheaper same with the quality.

Our basic VPS plans are unmanaged (or better to say semi-managed) since we provide full configured VPS(s) and we keep monitoring the resource usage , security (DDOS protection), network, uptime etc. During our Summer and special promos, our price for 2GB DDR3 RAM is/are $24.63 but 2GB of RAM for $10 is insane.

I have already seen users paying $200+ for a dedicated server with 4GB RAM and 500GB HDD disks.

If we start provide fully unmanaged (set and forget) without features like monitoring, powerful CPUs , premium DDOS protection (500Gbps) , Premium Bandwidth and stable nodes and network then yes we could sell 2GB for like $10

Depend what you need the VPS for of course

VirtuBox · Sep 16, 2016

I'm only talking about KVM virtualization without "burst" amount of RAM and real CPU, bandwidth and uptime.

[HR][/HR]09/16/2016 - DigitalOcean Droplet 2GB - Amsterdam - Ubuntu16.04 LTS - $20

CPU model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630L v2 @ 2.40GHz
Number of cores: 2
CPU frequency: 2399.998 MHz
Total amount of RAM: 2000 MB

Testing from DigitalOcean (178.62.XX.XX)...
Selecting best server based on latency...
Hosted by NFOrce Entertainment B.V. (Amsterdam) [2.18 km]: 5.235 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 886.95 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 367.17 Mbit/s
[HR][/HR]09/16/2016 - Linode 2G - London- Ubuntu16.04 LTS - $10

CPU model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz
Number of cores: 1
CPU frequency: 2499.996 MHz
Total amount of RAM: 1997 MB

Testing from Linode (139.162.XX.XX)...
Selecting best server based on latency...
Hosted by Burstfire Networks Ltd (London) [0.96 km]: 2.126 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 837.94 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 386.14 Mbit/s

[HR][/HR]09/16/2016 - OVH VPS CLOUD - Gravelines - Debian8.5 - $9

CPU model: Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX)
Number of cores: 1
CPU frequency: 3092.846 MHz
Total amount of RAM: 1962 MB

Testing from OVH (94.23.XX.XX)...
Selecting best server based on latency...
Hosted by Orange (Paris) [1.88 km]: 8.269 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 100.06 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 95.31 Mbit/s

CyberHour · Sep 16, 2016

And here comes ... here and here

I do agree that VPS are cheaper than before some years back , what I disagree is that VPS will become cheaper and with same prices with Shared Hosting (if not overselled of course

)

VirtuBox · Sep 16, 2016

For power users VPS are already cheaper than shared hosting. With an OVH VPS for $4/month, I can easily host 5-10 WordPress website with traffic and run them faster than any shared hosting. But that require to have knowledge about server management. That's why most of users will choose a shared hosting package (and that's maybe a better solution than having security issues with a VPS)

hostnesta · Sep 17, 2016

I believe cloud hosting is gaining grounds.
The more the idea is pushed into the minds of individuals, the more interested they are in switching to it.

But for now, VPS is a better option to cloud hosting.

Chris Worner · Sep 29, 2016

LJSHost said:
VPS are getting cheaper year after year but I believe shared hosting will have a place until VPS services reach a price close to a shared plan. However control panel and CloudLinux licenses will keep the price above shared hosting.
Shared hosting has plenty of life left but cloud container based services will replace it in time. Dedicated servers will be the first thing to go, keeping your server on a cloud has so many advantages.

CyberHour said:
Please allow me to disagree with you , VPS are not getting cheaper year after year like you say . What does go cheaper is the quality . PERIOD!
Premium bandwidth , fast SSD disks , fast CPU(s) and high DDOS protection is something that will never get cheaper like shared hosting.

Cloud has as many advantages as disadvantages. Now if with cloud you mean private cloud then ok
Anyway Shared Hosting is here to stay for long time

I am a bit more agree with LJSHost about getting cheaper VPS package after years. If I remember are not wrong 3 years ago I need to spend $30 or $40 to get a VPS with 2GB of RAM but now I only need $20 for 2GB of RAM with other good features.

but also agreeing with you about quality of VPS packages can decide how much we will pay for.

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