Tool
Shared, VPS or Dedicated? Answer four questions and we’ll tell you.
No need to know what a vCPU is. We ask what you’ll host — we work out the resources.
What will you host?
How many visitors a month?
up to 2,000
If you don't know, drag it all the way right. It isn't the most important question — see why below.
How many separate websites?
1
How much space for files?
Does any of this apply?
This decides the answer, more than traffic does.
The real question
It isn’t how many visitors you have
You’ll find tools that bump up the plan every time you drag the traffic slider. That’s wrong. A brochure site with 50,000 visitors a month runs comfortably on shared hosting, as long as it has proper caching.
The limit is elsewhere: do you need root access or your own software? If so, you need a VPS even with 200 visitors. If not, you may never need one. That’s why the two checkboxes at the end weigh more than the two sliders.
The mistakes
What most people do
“Get a bigger one, to be safe”
You pay monthly for resources you never touch. You can upgrade whenever you like, without moving.
“My site is slow, I need a VPS”
In most cases the site is slow because of images and plugins. The same site on a VPS will be just as slow, only more expensive.
“A VPS is more serious”
It’s also more your responsibility. An unmanaged VPS is a machine someone has to keep updated — otherwise it becomes a risk.
How the recommendation is made
There’s no AI behind this. They’re rules you can see: how many sites each plan allows, how much space, and the two points where shared stops being enough.
Every time the recommendation changes, the tool tells you why. If you disagree with the reason, tell us — better than buying something you don’t understand.
The next step
If you already have a site, there’s a better way
The recommendation here comes from what you tell us. If the site runs somewhere else, we can see what it actually uses instead of estimating it.
Not sure about the answer?
Tell us what you want to do and we’ll tell you what it needs — even if it’s the cheapest plan.