With Simple Cache setup for the 1st time, I wonder which host is most reliable this week in North America?
Uptime Test – Week 102 Method
- Compare 8 WordPress Hosts
- Use 8 Live Sites, each with a Different Host but with Identical Content (you can check them out here)
- Use Pingdom Uptime Test
- Location of Test: 10 North American Locations
- Frequency of Testing: Every Minute across the Last 7 Days
- Number of Weekly Tests = 1 x60 x24 x7 x8 = 80,640 (xMinutes xHours xDays xSites)
- Uptime testing is confirming that the website is actually accessible to visitors
- An example of why an outage (or downtime) can occur is scheduled maintenance of the server the website is hosted on
Which WordPress Hosts can ace the uptime test this week?
WordPress Hosts
Identical Live Sites
Weekly Tests
SiteGround Weekly Uptime Results
Namecheap Weekly Uptime Results
GoDaddy Weekly Uptime Results
Lightning Base Weekly Uptime Results
InMotion Hosting Weekly Uptime Results
HostGator Weekly Uptime Results
Bluehost Weekly Uptime Results
Web Hosting Hub Weekly Uptime Results
Uptime Test – Week 102 Summary Table
Our hosts have recorded a solid uptime performance this week, with 4 hosts achieving the ultimate goal of 100% Uptime (6 hosts achieved 100% in Week 101):
- GoDaddy
- Bluehost
- SiteGround
- Web Hosting Hub
This week’s best performer in North America is GoDaddy, with a perfect uptime and the fastest average response time of 215ms.
The last time we tested from North America (with WP Rocket setup in Week 99), the average response time across our 8 hosts was 219ms, while this week with Simple Cache on board, it is significantly slower at 358ms.
This is the first week of our Simple Cache Speed Study and the early signs are pointing to WP Rocket comfortably outperforming Simple Cache when it comes to Response Times.
Next week we change up the test location to Europe, I wonder which caching plugin will perform best?
And this Week’s Winner is…
Uptime Rankings
After 2 years of testing, let’s summarize all the results to see how our 8 hosts are performing overall. It will also allow us to find out which host is currently leading our uptime challenge.
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