When people start out in web hosting most tentatively choose shared hosting. This is so because it is pocket friendly and also easy to use. Pocket friendly because most shared hosting are relatively cheaper compared to other hosting packages and easy to use because shared hosting usually has cpanel as a panel already installed in it.

However, as time goes by depending on the nature of one’s site, shared hosting resources become limiting. One of the resources that is key is inodes. 

Inodes or otherwise known as file usage is the number of files and folders that one has in their shared hosting. Oftentimes file usage tends to get depleted and different people have different ways of solving this. We will cover two ways of solving this:

1. Deletion of files.
2. Upgrading.

Deletion of Files

One may decide to delete a few of their files and folders that are not in use at that time, however this should be done with caution as there are fundamental files that shouldn’t be deleted. You can check out this guide on what not to delete when hosting with Truehost here.

Upgrading.

One of the best solutions is usually to upgrade. One may decide to upgrade to a higher package of shared hosting or upgrading to a virtual private server. Upgrading to a higher package of shared hosting is good however getting a virtual private server is the best.

Why upgrade to a Virtual Private Server

1. A million inodes for use

You’d have “a million” inodes, with a virtual private server its not easy to exhaust the file limit. And this gives you the capacity to achieve more. As you’d avoid downtime as a result of resource depletion hence guaranteeing you more uptime.

2. Dedicated IP

Getting a VPS will mean that one has a dedicated IP all to yourself and hence this will increase email deliverability due to IP reputation.

The best time to consider moving to a VPS is whenever your inodes usage hits 80% of the allocated resource.