With Simple Cache on board, which host is up and about this week in Europe?

Uptime Test – Week 103 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

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  • Location of Test: 10 European 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

SiteGround Uptime Dashboard & Response Time Chart

Namecheap Weekly Uptime Results

Namecheap Uptime Dashboard & Response Time Chart

GoDaddy Weekly Uptime Results

GoDaddy Uptime Dashboard & Response Time Chart

Lightning Base Weekly Uptime Results

Lightning Base Uptime Dashboard & Response Time Chart

InMotion Hosting Weekly Uptime Results

InMotion Hosting Uptime Dashboard & Response Time Chart

HostGator Weekly Uptime Results

HostGator Uptime Dashboard & Response Time Chart

Bluehost Weekly Uptime Results

Bluehost Uptime Dashboard & Response Time Chart

Web Hosting Hub Weekly Uptime Results

Web Hosting Hub Uptime Dashboard & Response Time Chart

Uptime Test – Week 103 Summary Table

Our hosts have recorded a poor uptime performance this week, with just 3 hosts achieving the ultimate goal of 100% Uptime (4 hosts achieved 100% in Week 102):

  1. Bluehost
  2. SiteGround
  3. HostGator

This week’s best performer in Europe is Bluehost, with a perfect uptime and an average response time of 478ms.

The last time we tested from Europe (with WP Rocket setup in Week 100), the average response time across our 8 hosts was 420ms, while this week with Simple Cache on board, it is noticeably slower at 556ms.

This is the second week of our Simple Cache Speed Study and WP Rocket is comfortably outperforming Simple Cache when it comes to Response Times.

Next week we change up the test location to Asia Pacific, I wonder whether Simple Cache will be able to turn things around?

Uptime Test Results - Week 103 Summary Table

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.

Which host has the Best Uptime after 2 Years?