Shared Hosting is ideal for businesses and webmasters looking to host a single website for a low cost, and still benefit from the knowledge and support of RapidVPS.
We did not offer shared hosting for many years, as we felt the market was too saturated. However, after increasing demand from existing clients looking to refer friends to our service, we have added shared hosting to our service lineup.
We do not oversell our Shared Hosting servers. We are profitable without making your website crawl.
The standard profit margin on shared hosting is 2-5X that of VPS. Since we are already profitable with our current VPS pricing and setup, we decided to not oversell our shared hosting packages at all. This brings the profit down a bit for us, but you do not run into the problems associated with 98% of shared hosting firms- slow website, high load, mysql down, bounced emails, failed software updates.
Clearly stated, we do not maximize profit on our shared hosting servers- even with a low contention ratio they are much more profitable then our VPS investment, so why create a problem for ourselves?