Week 155 Uptime Test | 6 Hosts on Live WordPress Sites

With Canada firing along as our host’s servers, which host is most reliable this week in Asia Pacific?

Uptime Test – Week 155 Method

Compare 6 WordPress Hosts
Use 6 Live Sites, each with a Different Host but with Identical Content (you can check them out here)
Use Pingdom Uptime Test

Location of Host Server: Canada
Location of Test: 10 Asia Pacific Locations
Plugins Installed: None
Frequency of Testing: Every Minute across the Last 7 Days
Number of Weekly Tests = 1 x60 x24 x7 x6 = 60,480 (xMinutes xHours xDays xSites)
Uptime testing is confirming that the website is actually accessible to visitors
An example of why downtime might 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

LIGHTNING BASE Weekly Uptime Results

Lightning Base Uptime Dashboard & Response Time Chart

flywheel Weekly Uptime Results

Flywheel Uptime Dashboard & Response Time Chart

kinsta Weekly Uptime Results

Kinsta Uptime Dashboard & Response Time Chart

Pressidium Weekly Uptime Results

Pressidium Uptime Dashboard & Response Time Chart

WP ENGINE Weekly Uptime Results

WP Engine Uptime Dashboard & Response Time Chart

Uptime Test – Week 155 Summary Table

Our hosts have recorded an impressive uptime performance this week, with 5 hosts achieving the ultimate goal of 100% Uptime (5 hosts also achieved 100% in Week 154):

WP Engine
Kinsta
Lightning Base
Pressidium
SiteGround

This week’s best performer in Asia Pacific is WP Engine, with a perfect uptime and the fastest average response time of 1,180ms.

We have now completed 15 weeks of testing with our 4 new premium hosts. It’s interesting to observe how closely bunched 5 of our hosts, with Response Times all between 1,180ms and 1,310ms. SiteGround was a fair bit of the pace for the 3rd week in a row.

For next week’s test, I will be adding the premium caching plugin WP Rocket to each site and then change up our test location to North America. Can SiteGround get back to competing with the help of WP Rocket?