High-performance Linux VPS in France

Linux VPS or shared hosting: how to choose?

The question comes up often: when is it time to move from shared hosting to a VPS? The answer depends on three criteria: your site's traffic, the complexity of your applications and your technical autonomy.

When to stay on shared hosting

Shared hosting like our Starter, Essentiel or Performance plans perfectly covers the needs of most websites: business showcases, WordPress blogs, small e-commerce, association sites. You get a graphical control panel (cPanel), 1-click WordPress installation, integrated email management and responsive support — without ever touching a command line.

When to move to a Linux VPS

A VPS becomes necessary in these situations:

• Your site regularly receives more than 10,000 visits per month and response times are degrading.
• You develop a custom web application requiring specific libraries or services (Node.js, Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker…).
• You need to host multiple client projects with specific PHP configurations or isolated environments (as a freelancer or agency).
• You want to install Nextcloud for a private cloud, a game panel (Pterodactyl), a Discord bot or a game server (Minecraft, FiveM).
• You handle sensitive data and want full control over security configuration.

Common use cases for our Linux VPS

Hosting a Nextcloud server

Nextcloud is an open-source alternative to Google Drive or Dropbox, self-hosted on your own server. A VPS-M (8 GB RAM, 150 GB SSD) gives you plenty of capacity for a team private cloud, with file management, calendar, contacts and integrated video calls. Your data stays on French soil, without relying on a US cloud. See our VPS Nextcloud plan.

Hosting game servers with Pterodactyl

The Pterodactyl panel is the standard for managing game servers from a web interface. Our VPS-L (16 GB RAM, 12 vCores) can host several Minecraft, FiveM or other game instances simultaneously. The included Anti-DDoS protection is especially important in gaming, where volumetric attacks are frequent.

Running a Discord bot 24/7

A Discord bot must run continuously to reply in real time. A VPS with 2 GB RAM is enough for most Python or Node.js bots. Our VPS-S at €7.99/month is the most cost-effective solution for this use case.

Reseller hosting with cPanel/WHM

If you're a freelancer or agency and want to offer hosting to your clients under your own brand, our Reseller VPS includes WHM/cPanel and lets you create and manage independent client accounts. It's the starting point for a hosting reseller business.

KVM virtualization: why it matters

All our VPS use KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) virtualization, the most robust standard on the market. Unlike OpenVZ (used by some low-cost hosts), KVM offers full kernel-level isolation: your VPS has its own Linux kernel, its own dedicated resources, and cannot be affected by other clients' activity on the same physical server.

In practice, this means you can load custom kernel modules, use Docker, configure advanced iptables rules and install any Linux distribution — operations that are impossible or unstable on OpenVZ.

To dig deeper into managing your infrastructure, read our complete Linux VPS guide or our comparison shared hosting vs VPS vs dedicated.