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[Stoddard]

How much more per month, on average, is virtual private serving than shared hosting?

[jeremya]

It's difficult to justify that way. If you're comparing shared hosting to a VPS base price particularly with myhosting.com there isn't a huge gap, but when you realize that you can incrementally improve the performance of your VPS by adding RAM for less than $2 a month and really guarantee yourself performance you start seeing the true value in it; the flexibility. VPS is far from a one size fits all motif. You can check out our VPS wizard for the base configurations and prices aswell as begin tweaking to what you might need now and in the future.

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