Christmas is here again. A period of stress and confusion. It's not just people who are stressed, but e-shops as well. Every year, shop owners are surprised that during the peak order times, their shop is slow, crashes, or doesn't load at all. E-shops on Shared hosting share server performance with all other sites, so the total load of all websites on shared hosting can bring down your e-shop. Our servers have sufficient reserve performance, so these problems do not occur.
It's the beginning of November, and we are already seeing an increase in orders and requests on our helpdesk to move e-shops from competitors to their own VPS server. If you compare the higher hosting plans from competitors with the price of our VPS servers, you'll find the costs to be similar. There's no reason to delay; you should quickly move your shop to avoid missing out on orders.
The most common question on the helpdesk is how long the migration will take. A VPS server with ISPconfig administration is set up in a short time. Migrating a shop usually takes no more than an hour. However, we once migrated a client with over half a million images in their e-shop, which takes longer. Afterward, it's necessary to change the DNS record for the domain and wait for its replication. Ideally, the e-shop runs from the new location within an hour. In the worst case, it takes 24 hours.