With our host servers ready to roll in Australia, which host is proving to be most reliable this week when we test from Asia Pacific?
Uptime Test – Week 185 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: Australia
- Location of Test: 10 Asia Pacific Locations
- Caching 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 185 Summary Table
Our hosts have recorded an impressive performance this week, with 5 hosts achieving the ultimate goal of 100% Uptime (4 hosts achieved 100% in Week 184):
- Pressidium
- Lightning Base
- Kinsta
- Flywheel
- SiteGround
This week’s best performer in Asia Pacific is Pressidium, combining a perfect uptime with the fastest average response time of 691ms.
We have now completed 45 weeks of testing with our 4 new premium hosts. This marks the 5th week that we’ve tested from Australian based host servers, with plugin caching support turned off.
After Flywheel dominated the first 2 weeks, Lightning Base has been the star performer the last 2 weeks. This week its Pressidium leading the way, just ahead of Lightning Base.
At the other end of the spectrum, WP Engine experienced a significant outage of 29 minutes this week. This is uncharacteristic of them, as throughout 2019, WP Engine have only had 13 minutes of downtime.
For next week’s test, I will change up the test location from Asia Pacific to North America, plus will add WP Rocket to each of our sites. Can WP Engine return to their reliable ways and will SiteGround experience the usual speed improvement with WP Rocket turned on?
And this Week’s Winner is…
Uptime Rankings
With 40 weeks of testing on USA, UK, Canadian & Indian servers now complete, click below to find out which host proved to be most reliable so far in 2019.
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