You outgrew your host. Not into running servers.
Shared hosting throttles you the moment you get busy. A dedicated box hands you the capacity and then also the OS, the patching and the pager. velixir gives every app its own reserved CPU and memory with no server to run: push your source in any language and it builds, scales and stays live.
Your resources are yours.
Traditional shared hosting oversells one box to hundreds of sites and hopes you never all get busy at once. Every velixir plan reserves its CPU and memory up front, so the capacity you pay for is the capacity you get, at 3am on launch day as much as on a quiet Tuesday.
Reserved, not shared
Each app gets its own vCPU and RAM allocation, isolated at the container level. Nobody else's traffic spike becomes your outage.
Sized in seconds
Need a bigger box? Change the plan and redeploy. No migration window, no support ticket, no waiting for a provisioning queue.
Unmetered bandwidth
No egress fees and no per-GB surprises. A traffic spike costs you nothing extra, which is not something a hyperscaler bill can say.
Dedicated resources. Plus everything a server won't do for you.
A dedicated server gives you capacity and hands you the rest: the OS, the runtime, the deploy pipeline, the load balancer, the failover plan, the backups. velixir gives you the capacity and does the rest.
| Shared hosting | Dedicated server | velixir | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reserved CPU and memory | No | Yes | Yes |
| Server to patch and secure | No | Yes, yours | None |
| Deploys | FTP or a control panel | Your own pipeline | Push your source |
| Autoscaling | None | Build it yourself | Built in from Hobby up |
| Zero-downtime releases | No | Build it yourself | Rolling by default |
| Rollback | Restore a backup | Redeploy and hope | Instant, one click |
| High availability | No | Buy a second box | Toggle a warm standby, on paid plans |
| Managed Postgres and Valkey | Shared MySQL, maybe | Install and run it | One click, bound automatically |
| Scales to zero when idle | No | No | Yes, on the free tier |
| Runtime choice | Whatever PHP they installed | Anything you install | Any supported language |
"Shared hosting" and "dedicated server" describe the general market categories, not any one provider. Individual hosts vary, so check the plan you are comparing against.
Start free. Scale when it matters.
Deploy on the free tier with no card. When you outgrow it, your first month on a paid plan is on us, up to €14.99 of credit.