Here are a few advantages of hosting VPS servers over shared hosting: With VPS you get dedicated resources like memory, CPU, and IP Address while with shared hosting these resources are shared, so if any other client abuses resources all other sites are impacted. It is customizable: e.g. you can select your own OS, or any other custom requirements like Node.js, Crystal Reports, FFMPEG plugins, custom php timeout limits, max upload file size, etc which are not supported on a shared environment. More Control: you get full control over the environment, as you get root access to your server to directly change any setting.