RE: Cloud Hosting(Vultr/DigitalOcean) vs Shared Hosting(Namecheap)

Question

Sorry for asking a long question

Question Summary: If I use Vulr HF instead of Namecheap's Stellar Business Shared Hosting plan, will my website load faster?

Details: I have been using Namecheap's shared hosting plan(Stellar Business) to host a few websites. But it seems to be very slow or I am wrong. By the way, I have 2 WordPress websites. Both are built with Elementor Pro.

abc.com has Elementor, Elementor Pro, Dynamic Visibility, LiteSpeed Cache, Hide My WP Ghost, and Freesoul Plugin Deactivator.

xyz.com has Elementor, Elementor Pro, Dynamic Visibility, Awesome Support, Advanced Custom Fields, Gravity Forms, Theme My Login, LiteSpeed Cache, Hide My WP Ghost, and Freesoul Plugin Deactivator.

Both sites have BunnyCDN enabled. Without BunnyCDN and LiteSpeed Cache, both sites make 110+ HTTP requests, and page size goes up to 8+MB. Both sites take 20+ seconds to load. Terrible

But with BunnyCDN Permanent Cache, and LiteSpeed Cache enabled both sites make 10-20 HTTP requests, and the size is less than 1MB. Both sites take 7-9 seconds to load.

On the other hand, darrelwilson.com is built with Elelemntor Pro and WooCommerce and has Sucuri installed. I didn't find it to use CDN. It doesn't even use the LiteSpeed Cache plugin. The site is not well optimized. But the website loads faster than my well-optimized website.

Is it because he is using VPS? So, if I switch from shared hosting to Digital Ocean cloud hosting or Vultr HF, would it give my site the speed it needs? Will my website load in less than 2 seconds with CDN?

Answer 1

If you have a website where monthly traffic is good I suggest not to use shared hosting. It has its own disadvantage, the big problem is you don't know who is your neighbor's website in that server if that website has a lot of monthly traffic (spam or real) that it will also affect your speed.

For VPS I think it is also not a good option nowadays. I suggest going to cloud hosting. For win-win situation use cloudways 3 days trial, it is free & you can test the difference.