Shared CPU VPS, fully managed, from $20/month

Shared CPU means your virtual cores are scheduled across multiple tenants on the underlying physical hardware. You get full access to your allocated vCPUs almost all the time, but the physical cores are shared with other VMs. Every Shared CPU Cloud Cube runs +3.00 GHz vCPUs on non-oversold hosts, so shared never means starved.

Memory and storage are NOT shared. Your RAM is dedicated to your VM, and your NVMe disk space and I/O queue are dedicated to your VM. Only the CPU scheduling is shared, and that is what buys you more compute per dollar: at 16 GiB RAM, Shared CPU gives you six vCPUs at $121.67/month annual, while Dedicated CPU gives you two exclusive cores at $135/month.

Check how your workload uses CPU. If usage comes in bursts (traffic spikes, cron jobs, cache rebuilds) and idles between them, Shared CPU fits. That covers most websites, WooCommerce stores, agency stacks, and application servers, because PHP and HTTP traffic are bursty by nature.

If your CPU usage sits under 50% but RAM stays at 80-95%, you do not need dedicated cores, you need a larger Shared CPU plan: more memory and more scheduled vCPUs come together as sizes go up. If instead your CPU runs flat out around the clock, that is a Dedicated CPU workload.

The only difference is the CPU model. Shared CPU schedules +3.00 GHz vCPUs across tenants; Dedicated CPU reserves physical cores for you alone. Memory, NVMe storage, the management stack, and the 500% SLA are identical in both families.

In practice that means Shared CPU gives you more scheduled compute per dollar (six vCPUs versus two dedicated cores at the 16 GiB size), while Dedicated CPU gives you guaranteed cycles under sustained load. Shared CPU plans go up to 64 GiB RAM; Dedicated CPU continues to 128 GiB.

Under normal load, no. Shared CPU is designed for workloads that have CPU bursts but spend most time idle or in low utilization. WordPress, WooCommerce, multi-tenant CMS, and most application servers fit this profile because PHP/HTTP traffic is bursty by nature.

You will see throttling if you sustain 100% CPU usage for extended periods (think: video transcoding, ML inference, write-heavy OLTP databases, parallel batch processing). Those workloads need Dedicated CPU Cloud Cubes, where cores are not scheduled across tenants. We monitor your CPU patterns and will tell you if your workload is being throttled regularly.

Yes, and it is one of the most common use cases for this family. WooCommerce is RAM-hungry: object cache, session data, cart state, product catalog, and PHP-FPM workers all live in memory, and Shared CPU sizes give every layer breathing room.

For real volume stores (50+ orders per day, sustained concurrent shoppers), SC-16GB or SC-24GB is the sweet spot. We tune Redis or Memcached for object caching, MySQL for write-heavy carts, and PHP-FPM pool sizes for your concurrency level. If your CPU stays consistently above 70% under normal traffic, we will recommend stepping up to Dedicated CPU.

As a rough guide: SC-8GB handles 15-25 moderate WordPress sites, SC-16GB handles 30-50, and SC-24GB handles 45-75. Real capacity depends on plugin load, caching, and traffic per site, which is why we size PHP-FPM pools per site so each one gets enough memory to handle its concurrency without thrashing.

If you run WordPress Multisite, Shared CPU is also a strong fit: a single Multisite network with 50,000+ monthly visitors fits comfortably on SC-16GB or SC-24GB depending on plugin load.

When your workload is CPU-bound, not RAM-bound. Telltale signs: sustained CPU usage above 70-80%, p99 response times spiking under load while p50 stays flat, scheduled jobs taking longer than expected, or compliance requirements that prohibit shared scheduling.

Dedicated CPU Cloud Cubes give you cores that nobody else can touch, with the same management and SLA. Fewer cores per dollar, but every cycle is guaranteed, which is what delivers predictable performance under sustained load. We monitor your CPU patterns and will recommend the upgrade when we see it is needed.

Yes, every Shared CPU plan includes daily snapshots with 7-day retention plus dual offsite backups, no extra charge. Snapshots are block-level and fast to restore. Offsite backups run to two independent destinations, PBS and S3, so your data survives even if the server hardware fails.

Restores are handled by our team on request, and because the two offsite copies are independent of each other and of the server itself, there is no single point of failure in the backup chain.

Yes. Free migration is included on every Shared CPU plan, regardless of where you are coming from (cPanel host, Plesk host, WP Engine, Cloudways, Kinsta, AWS, DigitalOcean, anywhere). Our team handles the move: sites, databases, mail accounts, DNS records, SSL certificates, the whole stack.

We plan your cutover with you, do a test migration first, verify everything works at full traffic levels, then schedule the final DNS switch at a low-traffic time. Most customers experience zero downtime during migration.

We do not throttle, we do not bill you in surprise overage charges, and we do not suspend your service. Instead, we monitor your resource usage and reach out when you are consistently using 80% or more of your allocated RAM, CPU, or disk. We will recommend either an upgrade or a tuning pass to optimize your existing usage.

For network transfer, the included allowance is generous (2.5 to 160 TB per month depending on plan size) and most workloads never come close. If you do exceed it, we charge a small per-GB fee that we communicate before applying.

Yes, in either direction. Upgrades within the Shared CPU family (1GB to 64GB) happen with zero downtime: we add the resources to your existing server in place. Downgrades require a brief reboot to apply the new resource limits, scheduled at a time you choose.

Moving between families (Shared CPU to Dedicated CPU, or back) involves a server move, which our team handles for you. There is no fee for upgrades or family changes, you just pay the difference for the new plan.

30-day money-back guarantee on all Shared CPU plans. If you sign up and decide we are not the right fit within the first 30 days, we refund your full first payment, no questions asked, no exit fees, no contracts to cancel.

After 30 days, plans are billed monthly or annually depending on your selected cadence. You can cancel anytime through your account dashboard. Annual plans get pro-rated refunds for unused months on cancellation.