Shared server to a VPS environment, when?

So, I was recently on a shared server for two months with Hostpolar at $5/month and my community started to lag because our traffic and daily activity was on the rise, so I upgraded to a VPS - and my site is a lot more faster.

So, when did you upgrade from a shared server to a VPS?

 

You did the right thing, I pay for yearly hosting from hawkhost... have about 6 months left, and by then I plan to upgrade to VPS... Right now I feel its doing perfect on shared hosting, if continues to stay fast like it is I will just continue on shared hosting.

 

How much does it cost for yearly hosting for you? VPS is great because it keeps your community faster than a shared environment - depending on the amount of traffic you get.

 

For me its about $60, and then the domain payments which is like $15 along with whoisGaurd payments which has additional costs.

 

That's not so bad - it's actually quite cheap for yearly hosting.

 

Yea its in my budget. $35 yearly for VPS is not though.. hopefully my income from AdminBB will grow over time when we will really need to switch to VPS.

 

$35/year...that's some cheap VPS...Did you mean $35/month

 

I would say once you get about 10k visits a day or if you're a forum about 50 concurrent users at one time. It really depends on how well optimized your site is and how things work (plugins will play a huge role in that as well).

 

Right now im still on the shared. When that starts to lag or give me problems and the stats get high at the stats then ill pay for a VPS im going to get as much as i can out of shared

 

Yea theres no reason to go straight to VPS, adminbb is pretty big and its been doing fine on shared for the 5 months its been open.