May be your shared host has just emailed you that they will no longer able to offer you shared hosting service because your website has out-grown the amount of resources they are expecting, may be you are expecting your website to attract 10K page views per day at least, may be you need root access to install some customized Python add-on that the shared hosting providers will not install them for you due to security reasons…

Regardless of what the reason(s) are, you decide to get your own VPS – a “virtual” computer that you know is there (or hope it will be there all the time) but you almost certainly will never get a chance to see it.

We are, fortunate or not, living in the age where whoever that pays 50 dollars a month could be a web host in an hour, and there are thousands of hosts, all advertising their own brands as the “best”. Some are really good ones, but the price is equally expensive, some have really attractive promotions, but only to close the company within a few months, vanishes with your money and more importantly, your website that you put lots of time and effort on, so how do we choose?

In the next series of Finding The Right Low-End VPS Providers, I will be talking about, from my own experience, how to choose the “best” provider based on what you need. Stay tuned!