Shared hosting made sense when you were starting out. ₹500/month, zero setup, and your site was online. But as your business grows, shared hosting becomes a liability — not a saving.
The Real Cost of Shared Hosting Downtime
Most shared hosting providers advertise "99.9% uptime" but deliver 94–97% in practice. That's 13–26 hours of downtime per year. If your site generates ₹1L/month, that's ₹10,000–₹20,000 in lost revenue.
The SEO Problem
Google uses Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor. Shared hosting typically produces LCP scores of 4–8 seconds. The target is under 2.5 seconds. A slow site ranks lower.
What Should You Move To?
- Light traffic (< 5,000 visits/month): Hostinger VPS or DigitalOcean Droplet — ₹1,500–₹3,000/month.
- Medium traffic (5,000–50,000/month): AWS EC2 t3.small + RDS + CloudFront — ₹4,000–₹8,000/month.
- High traffic (50,000+/month): AWS with Auto Scaling + Load Balancer — ₹12,000–₹30,000/month.
When Is the Right Time to Move?
Move when: (1) your site has gone down more than twice in a month, (2) your Lighthouse performance score is below 70, or (3) you're running any transactional functionality where downtime has a direct revenue cost.
How Long Does a Migration Take?
A standard shared hosting → AWS migration takes 2–4 weeks. We run the new environment in parallel for 1–2 weeks, then execute a zero-downtime DNS cutover.
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