How to choose: answering the main questions
Why are businesses moving away from shared/VPS?
Hosting neighbors and CPU limits turn promotions into a lottery. Dedicated hardware ensures stable response times during traffic spikes and total freedom: full control over cache, search, and queues.
What is critical for Bitrix and Magento?
Core frequency (PHP is single-threaded per request), NVMe for the database, and composite cache in memory. 64 GB of RAM can handle a store with tens of thousands of SKUs, including search and Redis.
How to survive a flash sale?
3x overhead for standard load: page caching, dedicated workers for 1C export/import, and monitoring. We configure this setup upon delivery.