# Shared Hosting vs VPS — When to Move and Why | NulNet > One Apache instance, one IP, hundreds of tenants: where shared plans break — CPU caps, IP reputation, inode counts — and the migration path to a root KVM VPS. Source: https://nulnet.com/guides/shared-hosting-vs-vps/ [Home](https://nulnet.com/) / [Guides](https://nulnet.com/guides/) / Shared Hosting vs VPS — When to Move and Why Hosting guide # Shared Hosting vs VPS — When to Move and Why ![NulNet light KVM: racks and data flows into a black-hole void](https://nulnet.com/img/theme-vps.png) One Apache instance, one IP, hundreds of tenants: where shared plans break — CPU caps, IP reputation, inode counts — and the migration path to a root KVM VPS. Published 2026-08-30 · Updated 2026-09-08 · NulNet Editorial **Short answer** One Apache instance, one IP, hundreds of tenants: where shared plans break — CPU caps, IP reputation, inode counts — and the migration path to a root KVM VPS. NulNet: VPS from $3/mo and dedicated from $30.80/mo annual. The map spans twenty-one locations — Reykjavik (Iceland) and Zurich (Switzerland) among them, plus Singapore, Dubai, Cape Town and fourteen others. Signup is email plus a 12-character password, or token-only. No KYC. Checkout is crypto-only across BTC, XMR, ETH, BNB, SOL, LTC, TRX, XRP, DOGE, DASH, ADA, GRAM (TON), and USDT (TRC-20/ERC-20/BEP-20/SPL). No payload or guest traffic logs; connection metadata ≤24h. DDoS included. One SKN company, one crypto checkout. Deploy at https://nulnet.com/deploy/. ## How shared hosting actually works A shared plan rents you a directory, not a machine: hundreds of sites on one OS, one web-server instance and one IPv4. The price is genuinely low because nothing is reserved — CPU seconds pass through a throttler, traffic runs under fair-use clauses, and a neighbour's traffic spike lands on your status page as five-hundred errors. None of this is a defect the vendor can patch; it is the architecture that makes the price. VPS from $3* (fund $50+), storage 1–5 TB NVMe from $24/mo annual-eff, dedicated with IPMI from $30.80/mo. Crypto invoice, no KYC. [Launch now](https://nulnet.com/deploy/?kind=vps&plan=business/) ## The five moments people move - Throttling notices arrive by email — the classic first signal that CPU seconds are being policed. - A security plugin, cron job or stack component gets flagged as “not permitted on shared”. - Deliverability collapses because a co-tenant spammed from the shared IP and took its reputation down. - A required update touches server config — unreachable without root. - Disk fills despite “unlimited” claims, because inodes, not gigabytes, were the real quota. ## What the destination looks like A KVM VPS hands over a reserved slice with its own kernel: full root, nested virtualization, Docker without restrictions, and specs that are documented rather than implied. Scout starts at $3* ($5.49 list) with 1 vCPU and 2 GB; Sentry at $7.50 list — $6.00 on the annual term — carries 2 vCPU, 4 GB ECC and 60 GB NVMe with unmetered 1 Gbps. That is premium-shared money for a machine whose ceiling is the plan table, not a throttler's mood. ## The migration, step by step - Provision the VPS and apply the baseline: SSH keys, default-deny firewall, unattended upgrades. - Install the stack or a panel, then add the site. - Move content and database, cut the record TTL a day ahead, switch the A record. - Hold the old account through a rollback window, then cancel it. The move also ends card auto-renewals by side effect — checkout here runs sixteen coins with no card step, and a VPS images about a minute after the invoice credits. Deeper comparisons: the [storage ranking](https://nulnet.com/guides/best-storage-vps-2026/) and the [VPS vs dedicated guide](https://nulnet.com/guides/guides/vps-vs-dedicated/). ## What you take on with root The honest cost of a VPS is operations: patching, firewall state, backups and abuse exposure are all yours now. Panels and stack scripts shrink the gap — most of the checklist is one afternoon — and snapshots ride checkout as a rollback add-on. What never returns is the managed abstraction: when the database is slow, the process you profile is your own. ## Skipping the middle step Two workloads justify bypassing shared hosting entirely. Whole-core CPU, IPMI and ECC point at the [dedicated ladder](https://nulnet.com/dedicated/) from $30.80 annual-eff; terabyte archives and media libraries belong on the [storage tiers](https://nulnet.com/storage/), 1 TB NVMe from $24 with unmetered multi-gigabit ports. Everything between those poles — sites, apps, panels, small teams — fits a VPS slice first and graduates when the numbers say so. Is a VPS harder to run than shared hosting? You hold root, so updates, config and incidents are yours to handle. A control panel or a stack script removes most of the difference from shared hosting; the full hardening checklist is an afternoon, not a project. How much more does a VPS cost? Scout is $3* funded ($5.49 list) and Sentry is $7.50 list, $6.00 annual-eff — the same bracket as premium shared plans, except the 2 vCPU / 4 GB ECC / 60 GB NVMe are reserved and published rather than throttled behind fair-use wording. Can I host email on the same VPS? Yes — port 25 is open by policy and the PTR record is settable, so Mailcow or a plain Postfix stack runs without unblock requests. Warm the IP gradually and keep SPF, DKIM and DMARC published. Do I lose my IP when I migrate? Yes, the address stays with the old network; IPv4 cannot travel between providers. Plan around it with short DNS TTLs and a clean cutover — the migration order above already covers both. Is the annual term worth it? At −20% it prices Sentry at $6.00 monthly-equivalent and dedicated Shield at $30.80 — the discount applies to the USD total before any coin conversion, and the 3-month term takes 10% if you want a shorter commitment. ## Related guides - [Minimum-data no-KYC checkout](https://nulnet.com/guides/anonymous-vps-crypto-no-kyc/) - [Buy a VPS with crypto](https://nulnet.com/buy-vps-with-crypto/) - [No-KYC VPS: requirements and limits](https://nulnet.com/no-kyc-vps/) - [Pay with Monero](https://nulnet.com/monero-vps/) - [Offshore VPS](https://nulnet.com/offshore-vps/) - [VPS vs dedicated bare-metal](https://nulnet.com/guides/vps-vs-dedicated/) - [Best no-KYC VPS 2026](https://nulnet.com/best-no-kyc-vps-2026/) - [FAQ: crypto VPS](https://nulnet.com/guides/faq-crypto-vps/) ## Checkout facts - **Price** VPS from $3/mo. Dedicated from $30.80/mo. - **Identity** No KYC. Token-only (no email) or email plus a 12-character password. No passport, phone, or card. - **Payment** Sixteen ways to settle, none of them a card: XMR and BTC lead, ETH, SOL, LTC, BNB and TRX follow, then XRP, DOGE, DASH and ADA, GRAM (TON) for Telegram-adjacent rails, and USDT on four networks — TRC-20, ERC-20, BEP-20, SPL. Live-rate invoice. - **Logs** No payload / no guest traffic logs. Billing and panel actions retained. Connection metadata ≤24h. - **Platform** KVM on ECC and local NVMe. DDoS filtering included. Facilities in 21 cities across four continents — the locations table lists each one's tier, uplink and governing law. Need Iceland or Switzerland plus no KYC? Those two carry a published premium (+20% / +35%); every other flag stays at base list. Pay BTC, USDT, XMR, BNB, XRP, GRAM (TON) or 10 more. Open deploy to pick a plan. ## Ready to launch? Build the box — VPS, storage or bare metal — create the password, pay the invoice that follows. [Launch now](https://nulnet.com/deploy/?kind=vps&plan=business/)[Dedicated](https://nulnet.com/dedicated/)