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Shared hosting is cheap and good for small communities, but forums grow quickly. Heavy traffic can cause slowdowns, especially with many plugins. When you notice stability issues, consider upgrading to VPS or cloud hosting before it affects member experience.

Shared hosting is very okay when your forum is till very small, but once traffic start to increase, that's when you would need to upgrade to a better package. Sudden slowdowns, CPU limit warnings, or your host sending you email are the signs that your present host can't handle the traffic any more

if you get a shared hosting with more resources, shared hosting can be okay even when your site starts getting bigger and bigger. Unless you are storing sensitive information like real address or payment address, shared hosting will be fine for most sites.

Serene wrote: Sat Nov 22, 2025 2:04 pm Shared hosting is cheap and good for small communities, but forums grow quickly. Heavy traffic can cause slowdowns, especially with many plugins. When you notice stability issues, consider upgrading to VPS or cloud hosting before it affects member experience.

Not many grow that much It's tough for forums to grow because of social media and inability of forum owners to make things happen.

Jason wrote: Sun Dec 07, 2025 10:19 pm

Serene wrote: Sat Nov 22, 2025 2:04 pm Shared hosting is cheap and good for small communities, but forums grow quickly. Heavy traffic can cause slowdowns, especially with many plugins. When you notice stability issues, consider upgrading to VPS or cloud hosting before it affects member experience.

Not many grow that much It's tough for forums to grow because of social media and inability of forum owners to make things happen.

That’s understandable. A lot of forums never grow and they might never need hosting upgrade. But some communities do manage to grow, especially the ones that are spending money to build content and activities.

Of course, I wonder how much shared hosting can be stretched, so to speak, like if the images are kept down. For instance, if there is more traffic, but not a lot of images, could you keep shared?