With our host servers locked and loaded in India and WP Rocket on board, which host is up and about this week in North America?
Uptime Test – Week 179 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: WP Rocket
- 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 179 Summary Table
Our hosts have recorded a perfect performance this week, with all 6 hosts achieving the ultimate goal of 100% Uptime (all 6 hosts also achieved 100% in Week 178):
- Flywheel
- WP Engine
- Lightning Base
- Pressidium
- SiteGround
- Kinsta
This week’s best performer in North America is Flywheel, combining a perfect uptime with the fastest average response time of 503ms.
We have now completed 39 weeks of testing with our 4 new premium hosts. This marks the 9th week that we’ve tested from Indian based host servers, and the 4th week that plugin caching support of WP Rocket has been turned on.
Flywheel is the star performer of this week, with a response time that is comfortably faster than all other hosts. The other budget host worth highlighting is SiteGround, who has experienced the largest speed improvement thanks to the addition of WP Rocket. In Week 174 without WP Rocket, SiteGround’s response time was 1,880ms, while this week it has significantly stepped it up to 1,060ms.
For next week’s test, I will change up the test location from North America to Asia Pacific. Can Flywheel maintain their dominance and will SiteGround continue to improve its speed thanks to WP Rocket?
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.
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