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“What kind of hosting do I actually need?” is one of the most common questions our Melbourne support team hears every day. The honest answer is: it depends on what you’re trying to do — and how fast it’s likely to grow over the next twelve months.

At Titan eCommerce we run four hosting tiers: Shared, VPS, Cloud, and Dedicated. Each one solves a different problem. The fastest way to choose between them is to start with traffic, then look at control, then look at budget — in that order.

Start with Shared if you’re new or staying small

Shared hosting puts your site on a server alongside other sites, sharing CPU, RAM and disk. Because the costs are shared too, you can be online for as little as $10/month. That’s the right call for new blogs, brochureware, portfolios, small WordPress sites and anything where you expect a few thousand visits a month rather than tens of thousands.

Where shared hosting hits its ceiling is when a single noisy neighbour on the box spikes traffic — that’s when your site can slow down. The good news: on Titan’s shared plans we monitor resource use proactively and our LiteSpeed-powered stack soaks up a lot of that pressure before you ever notice.

Pick the smallest plan that comfortably handles your next twelve months — not the biggest plan you can imagine needing one day. – Titan Customer Success Team

Move to a VPS when you need predictable resources

A Virtual Private Server gives you a guaranteed slice of a physical server. That means a predictable amount of CPU, RAM and disk that no one else can touch — even when other tenants on the same hardware get busy.

VPS is the right next step when:

• You’re running an eCommerce store that needs consistent checkout speed.
• You’re hosting an app or API where response times have to stay under a few hundred milliseconds.
• You’ve outgrown the limits of shared and need root access to install your own stack.

Our VPS plans start at $39/month with 1-click installs for WordPress, WooCommerce, LAMP, Node and more — so you can be up and running in minutes, not hours.

Choose Cloud when your traffic is spiky

Cloud hosting on our hybrid platform is built to match supply with demand instantly. If you sell into events, run periodic campaigns, or just have a viral hit waiting in the wings, cloud lets you scale up the moment you need more capacity — and scale back down when the traffic passes, so you only pay for what you used.

Go Dedicated when uptime is the product

Dedicated servers give you an entire physical machine to yourself. That’s the right answer for high-traffic eCommerce, enterprise applications, big WooCommerce stores, regulated workloads, and anywhere the cost of a slow request is measured in lost orders.

Every dedicated server we sell runs on hardware we own in our own infrastructure — not leased, not white-labelled from a third party. That gives us tight control over performance, security and the ability to make changes for you quickly.

A simple decision framework

If you only remember one thing from this post, remember the four-question test:

• Is this site under 10,000 visits/month and not transactional? Start on Shared.
• Do you sell things, or need predictable response times? Move to VPS.
• Does traffic spike unpredictably? Cloud will be cheaper and safer than over-provisioning a VPS.
• Is downtime catastrophic, or are you handling regulated data? Go Dedicated.

Still not sure? Call our support line on +61 3 9067 7770 any time — day or night. We’d rather help you pick the right plan up front than upgrade you out of a problem six months in.