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Choosing the right web hosting service is one of the most consequential decisions you’ll make when launching a new website. Your host is responsible not just for keeping your site up and running—which is critical—but also for giving you the flexibility to grow and modify your website over time.

While picking the right web host is rewarding, picking the wrong one can be severely damaging. If your hosting provider can’t meet your needs, you’ll end up spending twice as much time and money to start over again with another host.

The many web hosts and their hosting tiers can make it difficult for you to find a Goldilocks plan that’s just right. This sometimes happens when your website requires more power than what simple shared hosting delivers, but you don’t want to go all-in on expensive dedicated hosting. The middle ground between the two is virtual private server (VPS) hosting.

VPS hosting contains the best elements of shared hosting and dedicated hosting services. Like shared hosting, VPS hosting puts your website on a server that also has other sites running on it. The difference? There are fewer sites per server, and your website receives its own resource allotment (like dedicated hosting). The sites share the cost of running on the server, which results in a monthly or yearly charge that’s less than…