Most people overbuy hosting. The honest answer is that a small business site with a few thousand monthly visitors runs perfectly well on an entry plan, and you can upgrade in place the moment that stops being true.
Start with traffic, not features
Our plan pages list an approximate monthly visit range for each tier. Those numbers assume a typical content site with images and a caching layer enabled. If your site is mostly text, you will comfortably exceed them; if every page runs a database-heavy search, you will not.
Then ask how much control you need
- Web hosting: you want a website online and never want to think about servers.
- WordPress hosting: same as above, but you want core and plugin updates handled for you.
- Cloud hosting: you need guaranteed CPU and RAM and a dedicated IP, without managing a server.
- VPS hosting: you want root access to install whatever you like.
Signs you have outgrown shared hosting
- Response times climb during your busiest hours but are fine overnight.
- You are hitting CPU or memory limits in your resource graphs more than once a week.
- Your store checkout is slower than your product pages.
- You need a dedicated IP for deliverability or allowlisting.
Upgrading later is easy
Upgrades apply within a couple of hours and Paddle pro-rates the difference, so you never pay twice for the same period. Downgrades take effect at the end of your current billing cycle.