A welcome kind of problem
Orders are rising and traffic is up 300%, but pages now crawl and your host keeps sending resource warnings. Sooner or later every successful Kenyan business has to scale its website. Here is how to do it in stages.
How to tell the site has outgrown its plan
- Pages take over 4 seconds to load
- "Resource limit reached" errors keep showing in your dashboard
- The site falls over at peak times, such as payday or Nairobi rush hour
- Your host asks you to "reduce resource usage"
- Visitors get 500 or 503 errors
Three steps up the ladder
Step 1: Get more out of what you have
Before you pay for more, add caching, compress images, put Cloudflare's CDN in front and remove plugins you no longer use. That often buys another 6 to 12 months.
Step 2: Move to a bigger shared plan
More resources, same simplicity. This suits sites growing towards roughly 2,000 visitors a day.
Step 3: Switch to a VPS
Dedicated resources and full control, able to handle 10,000 or more visitors a day. SiteBoma's managed VPS gives you that power while we take care of server administration.
Upgrading with SiteBoma, without downtime
When you upgrade with us, our team carries out the migration and your site stays online throughout. Talk to our support team in Nairobi to plan the move.