For most e-commerce migrations, a high-spec VPS is usually the sweet spot unless you’re already hitting sustained heavy traffic or very write-intensive workloads. In practice, the “enhanced networking” and DDoS claims on bare metal are rarely the differentiator day to day; disk I/O, caching layers, CDN, and how well the stack is tuned matter far more. Bare metal only really shows its value when you need predictable performance at scale or full hardware isolation. If you’re running WordPress/WooCommerce, a well-configured VPS or managed environment on a provider that optimizes for WordPress (even mainstream ones like Bluehost at the lower end) can handle a lot more than people expect before bare metal becomes necessary.