Have our hosts been able to stay up this week?

Uptime Test – Week 16 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 Worldwide 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

WordPress Host #1: SiteGround

SiteGround Uptime Dashboard - Week 16

SiteGround Uptime Response Time - Week 16

SiteGround Uptime Status - Week 16

WordPress Host #2: A2 Hosting

A2 Uptime Dashboard - Week 16

A2 Uptime Response Time - Week 16

A2 Uptime Status - Week 16

WordPress Host #3: GoDaddy

GoDaddy Uptime Dashboard - Week 16

GoDaddy Uptime Response Time - Week 16

GoDaddy Uptime Status - Week 16

WordPress Host #4: DreamHost

DreamHost Uptime Dashboard - Week 16

DreamHost Uptime Response Time - Week 16

DreamHost Uptime Status - Week 16

WordPress Host #5: InMotion Hosting

InMotion Uptime Dashboard - Week 16

InMotion Uptime Response Time - Week 16

InMotion Uptime Status - Week 16

WordPress Host #6: HostGator

HostGator Uptime Dashboard - Week 16

HostGator Uptime Response Time - Week 16

HostGator Uptime Status - Week 16

WordPress Host #7: Bluehost

Bluehost Uptime Dashboard - Week 16

Bluehost Uptime Response Time - Week 16

Bluehost Uptime Status - Week 16

WordPress Host #8: Web Hosting Hub

Hub Uptime Dashboard - Week 16

Hub Uptime Response Time - Week 16

Hub Uptime Status - Week 16

Uptime Test – Week 16 Summary Table

Our hosts have recorded a solid uptime performance this week, with 5 hosts achieving the ultimate goal of 100% Uptime:

  1. DreamHost
  2. HostGator
  3. A2 Hosting
  4. Web Hosting Hub
  5. InMotion Hosting

And we have yet another first time winner this week, and that honor belongs to DreamHost for being the fastest of those with 100% Uptime! Even more remarkable is the turnaround in their response time, going from 932ms the last time we ran this worldwide test (in Week 12), to just 171ms!!

And DreamHost is not alone, the average response time of our 8 hosts in Week 12 was 796ms, while this week it has dropped to 228ms. It’s amazing how much of a game changer Caching has been!

The big shock of the week was SiteGround actually recorded an Outage. The only time that has happened before was in Week 4. That now sets the benchmark for our other hosts to strive for, 11 Weeks of continuous uptime!!

Uptime Test Results - Week 16 Summary Table

And the Week 16 Winner is…

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Uptime Rankings

After 16 weeks 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.

Who has the Best Uptime after 16 Weeks?

Check out the Uptime Rankings