Choosing the wrong platform costs either money (over-provisioning) or sleep (outgrowing your plan mid-launch). Here's the honest decision guide we give our own customers.
Choose it when: you run WordPress, a business site, a store, or any PHP application, and you'd rather never see a terminal.
Skip it when: you need custom system services, background workers, Docker, or non-PHP runtimes.
Choose it when: you need root access, your own stack, or fast scaling. Deployed in seconds, billed flexibly, snapshots available.
Skip it when: your workload saturates many cores 24/7 — at that point dedicated hardware wins on price.
Choose it when: you need the entire machine: virtualization hosts, game servers, big databases, storage clusters (Atlas up to 308 TB), or GPU compute (Pulse, up to 96 GB VRAM for LLM inference and fine-tuning).
Skip it when: you deploy/destroy environments frequently — cloud elasticity fits that rhythm better.
Still unsure? Every plan is upgradeable with prorated billing — start one tier down and move up when the metrics say so. Or just ask us: describe your workload in a ticket and an engineer (not a sales bot) will size it for you.
