We’re off to Europe to find out which hosts were most reliable?
Uptime Test – Week 18 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
- Location of Test: 10 Locations across Europe
- 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
WordPress Host #2: A2 Hosting
WordPress Host #3: GoDaddy
WordPress Host #4: DreamHost
WordPress Host #5: InMotion Hosting
WordPress Host #6: HostGator
WordPress Host #7: Bluehost
WordPress Host #8: Web Hosting Hub
Uptime Test – Week 18 Summary Table
Our hosts have recorded a solid uptime performance this week, with 5 hosts achieving the ultimate goal of 100% Uptime:
- DreamHost
- HostGator
- SiteGround
- Bluehost
- GoDaddy
And our winner this week is DreamHost, recording the fastest time of 243ms! The last time we ran this Europe test (in Week 14), DreamHost’s time was 1020ms, quite the improvement!!
And DreamHost is not alone, the average response time across our 8 hosts in Week 14 was 935ms, while this week it has dropped to 347ms. The positive impact thanks to Caching is truly impressive!!
And the Week 18 Winner is…
Uptime Rankings
After 18 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.
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