The main difference between Shared and Dedicated web hosting using MySql/Database driven web sites.

The main difference between Shared and Dedicated web hosting using MySql/Database driven web sites.

Anytime you opt for Shared web hosting, your main limitation will be the mysql process limit set by the Hosting company.  Most big hosting companies limit the concurrent mysql processes to anywhere between 20 and 30 processes per cpanel.

When you hit this process max, your Website may not work or may return errors.

If you have a Dedicated Server or a VPS type server, in most cases you never have these limits.  If you have a lot of concurrent mysql processes, your site may slow down but you normally do not get the error messages that usually come back from Shared hosting.

Wordpress has become extremely popular over the last few years and many people are using it as their main design platform.  Wordpress uses mysql databases for all the content, plugins and themes.
Having just 1 or 2 blogs on your web hosting account... using a few plugins each...and receiving a hundreds of hits per month may cause problems.
If the traffic is very spread out, the error is a lot less likely to occur, but if all your traffic comes at one time during the day---it will be highly likely you get the error.

Just some tips and ideas to think of...
Sincerely,
Your Web Host Guy.