With our host servers based in India and WP Rocket added into the mix, which host is most reliable this week in Asia Pacific?
Uptime Test – Week 180 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 Asia Pacific 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 180 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 179):
- Lightning Base
- WP Engine
- Pressidium
- SiteGround
- Kinsta
- Flywheel
This week’s best performer in Asia Pacific is Lightning Base, combining a perfect uptime with the fastest average response time of 573ms.
We have now completed 40 weeks of testing with our 4 new premium hosts. This marks the 10th and final week that we’ve tested from Indian based host servers, and the 5th week that plugin caching support of WP Rocket has been turned on.
Lightning Base is the star performer of this week, with a response time that is comfortably faster than all other hosts. To make this performance even more impressive, is the fact that Lightning Base is a budget host. The only other budget host is SiteGround, and they too have performed quite well. They biggest accomplishment is they have experienced the largest speed improvement thanks to the addition of WP Rocket. In Week 175 without WP Rocket, SiteGround’s response time was 1,390ms, while this week it has significantly stepped it up to 844ms.
For next week’s test, I will change up the Server Location from India to Australia, while the test location will change from Asia Pacific to North America. Can our budget hosts of SiteGround & Lightning Base continue to perform well, or will our premiums come firing back?
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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