With WP Super Cache now added, lets find out which host is staying up longest this week in North America?
Uptime Test – Week 132 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
- Plugins Installed: WP Super Cache & Autoptimize
- 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 132 Summary Table
Our hosts have recorded a solid uptime performance this week, with 5 hosts achieving the ultimate goal of 100% Uptime (7 hosts achieved 100% in Week 131):
- GoDaddy
- Lightning Base
- HostGator
- SiteGround
- Bluehost
This week’s best performer in North America is GoDaddy, with a perfect uptime and the 2nd fastest average response time of 184ms.
The last time we tested from North America (with Comet Cache setup in Week 129), the average response time across our 8 hosts was 284ms, while this week with WP Super Cache on board, it is ridiculously slower at 1,078ms.
This is the first week of our WP Super Cache Speed Study and the early signs for WP Super Cache are very disappointing compared to Comet Cache, when it comes to Response Times.
For the next week, I will change up our testing location to Latin America. I wonder whether WP Super Cache can stage a remarkable turnaround?
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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