We cloned one real WordPress site \u2014 a content-heavy WooCommerce store, roughly 4,000 products \u2014 and deployed identical copies to two places: a popular regional shared cPanel plan, and a mid-tier IntelliPress isolated container. Same PHP version, same plugins, same theme, same data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udca1 Why this matters<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most “host A vs host B” posts compare different sites on different stacks. Holding everything constant except the hosting is the only way to isolate what the platform itself contributes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We ran each environment through the same battery: time to first byte under load, full page load, and how many concurrent checkouts it could handle before response times degraded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
export const options = {\n stages: [\n { duration: '60s', target: 200 },\n { duration: '120s', target: 200 },\n ],\n};<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nThe results<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Under light load the two were closer than you’d think. Under concurrent load \u2014 the moment that actually matters for a store \u2014 they diverged sharply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TTFB (loaded)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
840 ms<\/p>\n\n\n\n
210 ms<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Checkouts\/min<\/p>\n\n\n\n
~45<\/p>\n\n\n\n
~130<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThe shared plan wasn’t slow because it was cheap. It was slow because it was crowded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
What it means for you<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
If your site is small and quiet, shared hosting is fine. The moment it earns money, takes traffic, or runs a store, the crowd becomes your ceiling \u2014 and that’s exactly where isolation pays for itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713 Key takeaways<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n- At rest, shared and isolated hosting look similar \u2014 the difference shows up under load.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Isolated containers held ~4\u00d7 lower loaded TTFB and ~3\u00d7 more concurrent checkouts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The bottleneck on shared hosting is contention, not price.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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