wordpress Hosts

I’ve selected 4 Premium & 2 budget hosts to be tested through 2019

+ A Premium Caching Plugin

This will help boost the speed of each test site

10 budget hosts were tested across 2016 – 2018

Worldwide Server Locations

How They Performed in 2019

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Some of the links on this page are affiliate links, which means that if you decide to make a purchase, I will earn a commission. This commission comes at no additional cost to you. I test each product thoroughly and use performance based rankings. We are independently owned and the opinions expressed here are our own. Please note that I have not been given any free products, services or anything else by these companies in exchange for mentioning them on the site.

Weekly Tests

Each week speed & uptime tests are run using independent tools, GTmetrix & Pingdom. To eliminate the chance of location bias, I change up the test location each week; progressing from USA, UK, India, Canada & Australia.

Test #1: Speed

The Speed Test checks how long it takes for a website to fully load using a desktop internet browser. As website owners, we want our site to load as quickly as possible.

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Tests Per Week

SPEED TEST – WEEK 190

Now that our sites are setup on Australian servers and with WP Rocket locked and loaded, which host is flying along this week in Sydney…

Test #2: Uptime

The Uptime Test confirms that the website is actually accessible to visitors. As website owners, we want the uptime to be as close to 100% as possible.

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UPTIME TEST – WEEK 190

With our host servers based in Australia and with WP Rocket on board, which host is most reliable this week when we test from Asia Pacific…