Reliable Ubuntu VPS for side projects

Hello everyone, I hope you don’t mind me asking — I’m running a few side projects (a blog, a small API, maybe later a chat bot), all currently on free tiers or cheap shared servers. The problem is when traffic spikes (from a social share or a test), everything goes down. I want to move to a VPS that runs Ubuntu, with decent uptime and not a horror show of setup. My budget is modest. Has anyone here made this move? What provider did you use, and how was the transition from shared to VPS?

 

Hey — I’ve been exactly in your shoes not long ago. I had a couple of hobby projects running on shared hosting, and every time a post gained even a little traction, my sites would collapse. Eventually I realized I needed a VPS, but I didn’t want to spend hours wrestling with minimal installs or vague pricing. After trying out different options, the one that really worked for me was this: https://hostman.com/products/vps-ubuntu/#:text=How to Use VPS Ubuntu What I liked most is how straightforward everything felt — the Ubuntu VPS is ready to go right after launch, so you can focus on your apps instead of fixing system issues. Pricing is transparent, and when I needed help after messing up a firewall setting, support actually responded and guided me through. The transition was smooth too: I started small and later upgraded to a bigger plan without downtime. Compared to shared hosting, the performance difference was dramatic — pages loaded much faster, my API calls returned instantly, and I finally felt like I had room to grow without limitations. If your projects are small now but you want them to be reliable and scalable in the future, this is definitely worth considering.

 

Perfect, that sounds like exactly what I was looking for, thanks a lot!