As your site continues to grow, it is important to scale your service with the current needs of your site. Before getting started, we should inform you that we do suggest moving off Shared and into a WPO service. While Shared hosting is a great service for cost savings, it cannot always match the performance and storage needs that our WPO hosting plans provide. Regardless of how you decide to upgrade, this guide will walk you through the process of upgrading from your current Shared service.
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Upgrading a Shared Service
Upgrading a Shared service is a relatively easy process that can be done through your Billing Portal. Before you follow the instructions and upgrade your service, please check the following list below to ensure the upgrade meets your storage and domain needs.
105cc$7.95 monthly $83.40 annually |
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155cc$10.95 monthly $119.40 annually |
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Turbo Diesel +$19.95 monthly $227.40 annually |
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Additional Storage(Turbo Diesel + Only) |
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Once all set, please go into your Billing Portal and complete the following:
Login to your Billing Portal.
From the Dashboard, click Services (either on Dashboard or sidebar) and select the service you wish to upgrade.
On the service details page, there will be a blue test that says Upgrade. Click Upgrade to begin upgrading the service.
A new section will appear, here you can select a Shared service and billing cycle for the upgrade. Once selected, click Continue to proceed.
Finally, you will be brought to a purchasing screen for the upgrade. Check to make sure all the information is correct and select a Payment method. Once finished click Submit.
Upgrading into a WPO Service
Upgrading a WPO service is a relatively easy process, all you need to do is select a WPO service and set it up. Once you have the WPO service, you can submit a support ticket requesting a transfer of your sites to the WPO service, then complete a Cancellation Request on your Shared service. Before you follow the instructions and upgrade your service, please check the following list below to ensure the upgrade meets your storage, domain and traffic needs.
Starter$34.95 monthly $377.46 annually |
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Professional$34.95 monthly $377.46 annually |
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Business$34.95 monthly $377.46 annually |
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Storage Addon |
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Site Addon |
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Now that you have a service in mind, you can go our Managed Hosting page and select a service. For further help setting up your new service, please check out our guide below.
Once you have the service, please submit a support ticket requesting a transfer of the sites from your Shared service to your new WPO service. After the transfer has completed, you may submit a cancellation request following the guide below.
Benefits of a WPO Service
Benefits of a WPO Service
The main difference between the Managed WordPress services and Shared services are the environments. Managed WordPress services are built with WordPress in mind to deliver significantly improved load times and elevated levels of performance and management when compared to Shared.
Within our Managed WordPress services, your site would be placed within a dedicated environment built around WordPress to optimize speed and performance. We are able to provision the server and scale resources (CPU, memory and storage) to fit your sites' current needs. We will also dig deep into issues such as stuck PHP processes, database inefficiencies, plugin conflicts, ongoing optimizations, security hardening and more. To top it all off, the Managed WordPress services come with ~30 proactive monitors that operate to seek and prevent site issues before they would impact you or your clients.
By comparison, Shared hosting is exactly how it sounds. You are losing the individual environment and are instead sharing an environment with multiple clients. While Shared is a great way to reduce cost, it will be unable to achieve the same levels of performance or hands-on management present within Managed WordPress services.
For a more in-depth comparison of the two services, feel free to check out our article below:
Congratulations! You've successfully upgraded from your Shared service.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact our team via live chat.
For technical inquiries, please feel free to reach our support team by emailing support@bigscoots.com from your registered email or by submitting a support ticket.