How to find the server that best suits me.

The goal of this series of articles is to share how I migrated the website 1938.com.es from one VPS server to another without affecting SEO positioning. The idea is to show that you can migrate your web project from one IP address to another without harming its ranking in search engines.

In this first post we are going to carry out the search for a VPS server that improves the current characteristics and is, at the same time, as affordable as possible.

Decision criteria before choosing a VPS

A VPS migration is not only a price comparison. For a public website, the decision should include response time, available memory, disk type, CPU allocation, provider reliability, backup options, support quality and geographic distance from the main audience. A cheaper server can be a worse choice if it increases downtime or makes deployment harder to recover.

For SEO, the strongest technical signals are not the provider name but the result: stable HTTP 200 responses, fast server response time, no recurring 5xx errors and predictable deployments. This is why the VPS choice is connected with the later migration guide and with the deployment posts about Odoo and FastAPI.

How does VPS performance affect SEO?

VPS performance is important for the SEO positioning of a website. As many of you probably already know, 29 percent of users who use Google's platform do not go beyond the first search result. Therefore, as developers we are interested in reaching those top positions in order to attract more users to our website.

% of users who choose each of the options offered by Google.
1 Percentage of users who choose each of the options offered by Google.

Among the different SEO measures that can be used to obtain a better position, such as reducing project size, improving tags or organizing content better, one of the actions with the greatest impact is the server response time.

Why is that? Very simple. Once the user has clicked on your search engine result, the longer the waiting time, the more likely it is that the user will abandon your site and perform a new search to find a faster alternative. And when that happens, Google penalizes your ranking quite heavily.

This situation is a problem for SEO and therefore we need to avoid it. As shown in the next chart, one second can make a big difference, and a server with the right resources can help us improve our ranking.
Rate of users who stay more than one minute on a website according to the page loading time
2 Percentage of users who remain for more than one minute on a website according to its loading time.

Another drawback of not having a suitable VPS is the appearance of 500-type errors, that is, server downtime. This problem affects SEO very negatively and can even cause the affected pages to be temporarily deindexed.

For all these reasons, I decided to migrate my current hosting to a new VPS server with more resources that would reduce response times. In addition, in my case I received the following email from my current provider:
Reboot maintenance planned on the physical hypervisor hosting your instances Dear Cloud Rider,

A mandatory reboot has been planed on the 2022.09.19 09:00 UTC on the physical server hosting instances in the following list :

cada2ea2-8715-44ac-(escondo el dato) : scw-elated-chandrasekhar

During this reboot, your server will be stopped in place. This operation will cause a downtime of a few minutes to an hour, depending on the number of instances hosted on the hypervisor. The private and public IPv4 and IPv6 will not change during this reboot.

No specific actions are required on your side. However, if the reboot date does not suit you, you can perform a migration yourself by powering off, then powering on your instance before our intervention. At restart, it will be located on another physical server with no immediate reboot need.

We are very sorry for the inconvenience. Do not hesitate to contact our assistance if you need any further information.

The Scaleway team.

In this situation, and while managing a high-traffic project, I had no choice but to migrate to a new VPS server and use two servers so I could alternate between them in the event of failure, updates or planned downtime.

Searching for a VPS.

My current provider is Scaleway, and although I like the service a lot, it is slightly more expensive than some other options. At the moment, for 3 euros I get a server with 1 CPU, 1 GB of RAM and 25 GB of NVMe SSD storage. Another drawback is that the provider hosts the VPS in France, and although that is not a critical problem, for my ranking it would ideally be in Spain.

Looking for alternatives, I found two options hosted in Spain: Arsys and Ionos

Another option I used while searching for a new VPS was the website https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/, a platform that compares different VPS providers and their features. In this case, I selected servers costing less than 5 dollars per month. From that search, I chose https://onetsolutions.net/en/vps-server as one of the best options, with a price of 2.66 euros per month.

With all that information, I created the following comparison table.
ProviderScalewayArsysIonosOnet Solutions
CPU1 vCPU2 vCPU2 vCPU2 vCPU
RAM1 GB4 GB2 GB2 GB
SSD25 Gb NVMe80 Gb80 Gb20 Gb NVMe
LocationFranceSpainSpainFrance
Price3.71 EUR11 EUR5 EUR2.66 EUR

In the end, because of the price, I decided to hire the server from https://onetsolutions.net/en/vps-server because, although I do not gain the SEO benefit that hosting in Spain could provide, my current server is already in France and the project is evolving correctly. In addition, the price is very competitive and the server has features that can represent a clear qualitative leap for my project.

Related infrastructure posts

Continue with the Ubuntu VPS migration guide, the Odoo 18 deployment guide and the Nginx and FastAPI perimeter guide.

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