With so many hosting options available, picking the right plan can feel overwhelming. The good news is that it usually comes down to answering a handful of practical questions about what you actually need. Here’s how to work through them.
How many sites are you hosting?
If you’re running a single website, a standard WordPress or cPanel plan is usually the right starting point. If you manage several sites, whether for yourself or as side projects, look for a plan that either supports multiple domains or lets you scale up as you add more. If you’re planning to host sites on behalf of other people or businesses, that’s a sign you should be looking at reseller hosting instead, which is built around managing many separate accounts.
How much traffic do you expect?
A small brochure site or portfolio with modest visitor numbers will run comfortably on an entry-level shared plan. If you’re running an online store, publishing content regularly, or expecting a steady stream of visitors, you’ll want a plan with enough resources to keep pages loading quickly under that load. If your site regularly needs guaranteed, dedicated resources rather than a shared pool, that’s when a VPS starts to make sense.
How much storage and email do you need?
Think about the size of your media library, any e-commerce product catalogue, and how many email accounts you’ll need. Our WordPress and cPanel hosting plans include unlimited mailboxes, so email accounts themselves aren’t usually the limiting factor, but the storage they use counts toward your plan’s total. If you’re running a large image or video-heavy site, or a WooCommerce store with a big product catalogue and order history, factor that growth into the storage you choose.
Running WooCommerce or another store?
E-commerce sites tend to need more resources than a simple brochure site, since every product page, cart and checkout interaction involves database queries. Look for a plan with solid underlying performance, caching support like LSCache, and enough storage headroom for product images and order data to grow over time. If your store is high-traffic or growing quickly, a reseller-tier or VPS plan can give you more consistent performance as demand increases.
Shared, reseller, or VPS?
- Shared hosting (our WordPress and cPanel plans) suits individual sites and small businesses, where your account shares server resources with others but at a lower cost. This is the right starting point for most single-site owners.
- Reseller hosting suits agencies, freelancers and developers managing hosting for multiple clients under their own brand, using WHM to create and manage individual cPanel accounts.
- VPS hosting suits sites and applications that have outgrown shared hosting and need dedicated resources and root-level control, without the cost or complexity of a fully dedicated server.
Why Australian data location matters
If most of your visitors are in Australia, hosting your site on a server physically closer to them can help reduce the distance data has to travel, which is one factor in how quickly your site responds. Skyrack’s hosting servers are located in a Sydney data centre, with DNS nodes distributed across Australia, so Australian visitors are being served from infrastructure close to home.
Putting it together
Start with the smallest plan that comfortably covers your current sites, traffic and storage needs, since all Skyrack plans come with no lock-in contracts, so you’re free to move up as you grow rather than needing to over-commit up front.
- One site, modest traffic: WordPress hosting or cPanel hosting from $4.98/month.
- Multiple client sites or your own hosting business: Reseller hosting from $44.98/month.
- High-traffic sites or apps needing dedicated resources: VPS hosting from $129/month.
Next steps
Not sure which tier fits? Compare WordPress hosting, cPanel hosting, reseller hosting and VPS hosting to find the right starting point for your site.