Web vs Turbo vs VPS Hosting: Which One Do You Need?

The difference is how much of the server is yours. Web Hosting shares one server's CPU and memory across many sites. Turbo Hosting sits in the middle, with more CPU and memory than Web Hosting, unmetered bandwidth and clearly listed limits. VPS Hosting gives you your own virtual server with its own IPv4 address. Most small sites should start on Web Hosting and move up only when they see the signs described below.

Here is what you get with each, which sites suit which, and how to tell when a plan has become too small.

What is the difference between Web, Turbo and VPS hosting?

One plan from each family, side by side, makes the numbers clearer:

A dash means the plan does not list that figure. Do not assume the numbers from a family's name, either. A VPS is not automatically bigger than a Turbo plan, because what a VPS sells you is a separate server of your own. Compare the actual figures.

What is shared hosting?

Think of a market building where many shops share the same electricity and water lines. On shared hosting, many sites run on one server, and each account has limits so that one busy site does not hold up the others. The Web Hosting plans raise those limits step by step.

You run everything from a hosting account and do not have to think about the server itself. For a school website, a clinic's site, a portfolio or a small WordPress blog, this is usually all you need.

What is Turbo Hosting?

Turbo Hosting gives your account more CPU and memory, with unmetered bandwidth, so it can deal with more at once. The number to understand here is entry processes.

Entry processes are how many dynamic requests your account can be handling at the same moment. That is not the number of visitors. A visitor only uses one while the server is building their page, and it frees up the moment the page is done. Turbo Go, for example, lists a limit of 100. When an account hits its limit, new visitors see an error page, often with a 508 code.

This is why caching matters so much. A page served from cache usually needs little or no PHP work, so it barely touches the limit. Checkouts and logged-in pages cannot be cached the same way, which is why online shops feel this limit before blogs do.

Turbo suits a WooCommerce shop with regular orders, a busy news portal, a Facebook shop whose boosted posts send many people at once, or someone looking after a number of client sites.

What is VPS hosting?

A VPS is a virtual server carved out of a larger physical machine. Each VPS plan gives you your own virtual server with the CPU, memory and storage it lists, plus 1 IPv4 address.

People choose a VPS for custom-built applications, background jobs, or a setup that a hosting account does not allow. One thing to settle first: before you order a VPS from any host, ask who is responsible for the operating system, security updates and backups. The answer decides how much technical skill you need. Ask us too, before you order.

VPS orders skip the domain step, so you connect your domain yourself afterwards.

Which hosting type fits your site?

• Start on Web Hosting if this is your first site, you have a handful of pages, or you run a small WordPress site. If you do not know your traffic yet, this is the sensible place to find out.
• Choose Turbo Hosting if you take regular online orders, your traffic comes in sudden bursts, or you need to run many sites from one account.
• Choose VPS Hosting if you need your own server environment and you have someone who knows how to work with one, or you have confirmed with your host what support covers.

To estimate your numbers, read how much hosting you need. If you run WordPress, see WordPress hosting in Bangladesh.

Signs you have outgrown your plan

Time to move from Web to Turbo

• You see "Resource Limit Reached" or 508 errors at busy moments.
• The site is fine at night but slows down when you boost a Facebook post or run a sale.
• The WordPress dashboard is slow even with few visitors, and clearing out plugins has not helped.
• You keep running close to your storage or bandwidth limit.
• You need more websites than your plan allows.

Time to move from Turbo to VPS

• Even with caching on, you keep hitting entry-process or CPU limits and the larger Turbo plans would not solve it.
• You need software or settings a hosting account does not offer, such as a custom application or background workers.
• You need your own IPv4 address for a specific reason.
• A client project or application needs to sit on its own server.

And if the site is only slow for visitors abroad, the plan is not the problem at all. The problem is distance. All our plans run from Dhaka, so a mostly overseas audience is better served by hosting near them or by a CDN.

How to choose between get.bd's plans

All three families run from get.bd's datacenter in Dhaka and are BDIX connected, so changing family does not change where your site lives. Only your site's needs decide it. The plan finder is a good place to start.

Everything is billed in taka, by bKash, Nagad, bank transfer or card, and every plan can be paid monthly, yearly or every two years. Web and Turbo plans include cPanel, free SSL, daily backups, LiteSpeed and free migration, and VPS plans come with full root access. No plan has a setup fee, and Web Hosting comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. If you are still unsure, ask us by phone, WhatsApp or ticket, in Bengali or English, 24/7.