With our host servers based in the UK, which of our hosts is soaring the highest this week in Asia Pacific?
Uptime Test – Week 165 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: UK
- 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
LIGHTNING BASE Weekly Uptime Results
flywheel Weekly Uptime Results
kinsta Weekly Uptime Results
Pressidium Weekly Uptime Results
WP ENGINE Weekly Uptime Results
Uptime Test – Week 165 Summary Table
Our hosts have recorded an impressive uptime performance this week, with 5 hosts achieving the ultimate goal of 100% Uptime (4 hosts achieved 100% in Week 164):
- Flywheel
- WP Engine
- Lightning Base
- Kinsta
- SiteGround
This week’s best performer in Asia Pacific is Flywheel, combining a perfect uptime with the fastest average response time of 1,280ms.
We have now completed 25 weeks of testing with our 4 new premium hosts. This marks the 5th week that we’ve tested from UK based host servers, and without the caching support of WP Rocket.
The most interesting takeaway from this weeks results is how close the response times are for our Top 5 hosts. It’s also worth mentioning how well Lightning Base continues to perform when it comes to response times. The last 4 weeks have seen Lightning Base (who are a budget host) compete with our 4 premium hosts. This is especially impressive when you consider our only other budget host, SiteGround, continues to be well off the pace.
For next week’s test, I will change up the test location from Asia Pacific to North America, plus add WP Rocket into the mix. Our budget hosts typically improve the most with the addition of WP Rocket, will that trend continue?
And this Week’s Winner is…
Uptime Rankings
With 20 weeks of testing on USA & Canadian servers now complete, click below to find out which host proved to be most reliable so far in 2019.
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