Classic Hosting, VPS or Cloud Hosting: the choice that can save your site
November 28, 2025 | Jordi Genescà Prat
You already have a website —corporate or ecommerce— and you probably don’t think much about your hosting… until something goes wrong. While everything works, it feels like a technical detail. But when your site slows down, crashes or shows security warnings, the truth becomes obvious: not all hostings are equal, and not all protect you the same way.
The type of hosting you use today may determine whether your website grows safely or whether you’re living with silent risks waiting to explode.
Classic hosting: cheap… but full of neighbours (and risks)
Shared hosting —the oldest and still used by over 37.6% of the market— works like an apartment block. Every website occupies a room, but all share the same pipes and wiring. If one neighbour breaks something, everyone suffers.
In practice:
- If another site gets infected, yours can be contaminated.
- If someone uploads malware, Google may block multiple websites including yours.
- If one site is attacked, your site may go down too.
- If another site consumes too many resources, your site slows down.
For users, a slow or broken site is simply abandoned. For Google, a slow or vulnerable site deserves to lose rankings. Shared hosting works… until it doesn’t.
VPS: a step forward, but still with physical limitations
Many projects suffering issues on shared hosting migrate to a VPS. The improvement is clear: dedicated resources, better performance, more control.
But a VPS still depends on a single physical server:
- If that server fails, your site falls with it.
- Scaling is not always immediate.
- Lack of technical expertise makes management complex.
Cloud Hosting: the model that removes neighbours and minimises risk
Cloud Hosting completely changes the approach. Instead of living on one server, your site is hosted on a distributed infrastructure ready to absorb failures, attacks or traffic spikes.
- Real redundancy: if one server goes down, another takes over.
- Resource isolation: no noisy or infected neighbours.
- Seamless scalability: the cloud allocates resources automatically.
This is why so many companies are migrating to the cloud: it’s not a trend, it’s stability and real growth.
Why rethink your hosting if you already have a website?
Because your current hosting may be slowing you down or putting your project at risk:
- You may be sharing a server with infected sites.
- Your site might be slow because of others, and Google will penalise you.
- Your data may be exposed due to attacks on other sites.
- A traffic spike could crash your site.
- Your growth may be limited by fixed infrastructure.
The real question isn’t “what hosting exists”, but:
Are you comfortable assuming the risks of your current hosting?
- Shared hosting → high risk, low control.
- VPS → medium risk, medium control.
- Cloud → minimal risk, real stability and growth.
If your website is important —because it sells, represents you, attracts clients or stores data— the infrastructure behind it is critical.
Hosting is like the foundation of a house: if it collapses, everything collapses.
