With our host servers now changed over to India, which host is up and about this week in North America?
Uptime Test – Week 171 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: India
- Location of Test: 10 North American 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 171 Summary Table
Our hosts have recorded an impressive performance this week, with 5 hosts achieving the ultimate goal of 100% Uptime (5 hosts also achieved 100% in Week 170):
- Flywheel
- Lightning Base
- Pressidium
- Kinsta
- SiteGround
This week’s best performer in North America is Flywheel, combining a perfect uptime with the fastest average response time of 698ms.
We have now completed 31 weeks of testing with our 4 new premium hosts. This marks the 1st week that we’ve tested from Indian based host servers, and with plugin caching support turned off.
The performance of our budget hosts, SiteGround & Lightning Base, is also worth noting. WP Rocket has proved useful to SiteGround in particular, and with it turned off, SiteGround is well off the pace of the other hosts. While Lightning Base has been able to compete with our premium hosts without the assistance of WP Rocket.
For next week’s test, I will change up the test location from North America to Europe. Will Flywheel continue to perform well and can SiteGround turn things around?
And this Week’s Winner is…
Uptime Rankings
With 30 weeks of testing on USA, UK & Canadian servers now complete, click below to find out which host proved to be most reliable so far in 2019.
Hi, I'm Clint!
