Boise Web Hosting: Running a Small-Business Site on a Boise VPS

This section covers running a small-business website on a Boise VPS instead of a shared hosting account. It explains how to size the server, pick a web server, keep it patched and backed up, and what the Boise location changes for your visitors.

Why put a business website on a VPS in Boise?

Location matters most when your visitors are close by. Our servers run in the IDACORE Boise datacenter, under 5 ms to Treasure Valley businesses. From Boise it’s 14 ms to Salt Lake City, 22 ms to Portland and 23 ms to Seattle.

The building has dual Idaho Power feeds, N+1 UPS and N+1 cooling. The full facility details are at IDACORE Boise. Our own network uses Lumen and Cogent as upstreams. The 100% SLA pays 5% of the monthly fee per hour down, capped at 100%.

What will you find in this section?

Guides here will walk through moving a site off shared hosting, setting up Nginx or Caddy with TLS, and sizing RAM and disk for WordPress or a static site. They’ll also cover backups and how a transfer allowance works: over it, the port is throttled, never billed. Each guide sticks to what you can check: commands, config and the numbers in our catalog.

When you’re ready to dial it in, compare the Boise VPS plans. The NVMe VPS is $5/GB RAM, from $10/mo, and 1 Gig is the standard port.

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Frequently asked questions.

A VPS is the better fit when your site needs its own allocated resources, root access or software a shared host won't install. Shared hosting suits a small, low-traffic site you never want to administer. On a VPS you handle updates, the firewall and backups yourself, so plan for a little maintenance time each month.

ADTAQ's NVMe VPS starts at $10/mo for the Starter plan: 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM and 30 GB disk. The Standard plan is $20/mo for 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM and 60 GB disk. Annual billing is 12 months for the price of 10, and backups are $0.02/GB with a $1 minimum.

ADTAQ's servers in the IDACORE Boise datacenter are under 5 ms from Treasure Valley businesses. Measured latency from Boise is 14 ms to Salt Lake City, 22 ms to Portland and 23 ms to Seattle. Visitors further away see more, so a Boise VPS makes the most sense when your customers are mostly in Idaho and the Northwest.