Have You Outgrown Shared Hosting?

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This page lists the signs that a site has outgrown shared hosting and the upgrade options on GoZen Host.

Signs You’ve Outgrown Shared Hosting link

You’re Hitting CloudLinux Resource Limits link

Go to cPanel > Metrics > Resource Usage. If you see frequent faults (red bars) for CPU, memory, or entry processes, your site needs more power than your plan allows.

Occasional faults during traffic spikes are normal. Daily or hourly faults during regular traffic mean you’ve outgrown the plan.

See CloudLinux Resource Limits for details on reading the dashboard.

Your Site Is Slow Despite Optimization link

If you’ve already:

• Enabled LiteSpeed Cache
• Optimized images
• Removed unused plugins
• Blocked bad bots
• Cleaned up your database

and your site is still slow under normal traffic, the plan’s resources are the bottleneck.

You Need Software That Shared Hosting Doesn’t Support link

Shared hosting runs PHP, MySQL, static files, and Node.js or Python apps through cPanel’s app selectors. If you need:

• Redis or Memcached (in-memory caching)
• Custom Nginx configurations
• Node.js, Python, or Go services running as daemons
• Docker containers
• Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, or other services
• Root-level access to install system packages

You need a VPS.

You Need More Control link

On shared hosting, you can’t:

• Change the web server configuration (LiteSpeed config is managed by GoZen)
• Install custom PHP extensions not available in the selector
• Modify system-level firewall rules
• Run persistent background processes

A VPS gives you full root access to do all of this.

You’re Running a High-Traffic WooCommerce Store link

WooCommerce uses a lot of resources: cart, checkout and account pages can’t be page-cached and run many database queries. A store processing hundreds of orders a day usually runs into the plan’s limits.

Your Upgrade Options link

Which One? link

Upgrade your shared plan first if:

• You’re on the lowest plan and just need more headroom
• Resource faults are occasional, not constant
• You don’t need root access or custom software

Go to Managed VPS if:

• You want more power but still want GoZen to manage the server
• You need cPanel/WHM with root access
• You want more CPU and RAM than shared plans offer, without CloudLinux account limits
• See Managed VPS - What’s Included

Go to an AMD EPYC VPS with dedicated cores if:

• Your workload is consistently CPU-intensive
• You need guaranteed performance at all times
• See AMD EPYC VPS with Dedicated Cores

How to Upgrade link

Upgrading Your Shared Plan link

1. Log into the GoZen client area
2. Go to Services > My Services
3. Click on your hosting plan
4. Click Upgrade/Downgrade
5. Select the new plan
6. Confirm - billing is prorated

Migrating to a VPS link

1. Order a VPS from the GoZen store
2. Request a free migration - we move everything for you
3. Verify the migration on the new server
4. Update DNS to point to the new server
5. Cancel the old shared plan after DNS has propagated

The migration is free. We move the site; you check it on the new server and update DNS.

What to Do Next link

• CloudLinux Resource Limits - check your current resource usage
• Managed VPS - What’s Included - understand managed VPS scope
• Requesting a Free Migration - let us move your site