Managed or self-managed: who should actually run the server?
Managed or self-managed is not budget alone. It is a clear split of who patches, monitors, restores, and answers at night when production falls.
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Managed or self-managed is not budget alone. It is a clear split of who patches, monitors, restores, and answers at night when production falls.
Dedicated hardware is not hosting's mandatory summit. It is justified by physical isolation, steady load, or regulatory constraints — not prestige.
Two European pillars: Hetzner for price-performance and autonomy, OVHcloud for the French ecosystem and support. Scenario comparison, limits and decision grid for European apps.
Cloud is expensive when load is flat. It pays off when your spikes exceed what a fixed server can absorb without wasting resources the rest of the year.
Moving to a VPS is not about prestige. It is the point where shared hosting no longer guarantees what your site needs — isolation, versions, cron, restore.
For a brochure site or blog just getting started, shared hosting is often the right first step — if you know when it becomes a constraint rather than a saving.