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Plain answers to common hosting questions, written and edited by a person. Prices in each guide are as of the check date shown with them.

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• How Much RAM Does a Small Website Need

  Estimate website RAM from your software and measured memory use, and see what each step up in memory costs on plans we checked.

• Prepaid Hosting vs Pay-As-You-Go Billing

  Compare prepaid and pay-as-you-go hosting with real prices we checked: upfront totals, renewal rates, and hourly billing caps.

• Shared Hosting vs VPS for a Small Website

  Compare shared hosting and VPS hosting by control, resource limits, maintenance, and total cost, using prices we checked by hand.

• What You Manage on a Self-Managed VPS

  The work behind a self-managed VPS: updates, access control, backups, recovery, and monitoring, and why the low monthly price leaves this to you.