Let’s find out which of our host’s can stay up the longest in our Worldwide test?
Uptime Test – Week 28 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 Worldwide Locations
- 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 28 Summary Table
Our hosts have recorded an impressive uptime performance this week, with 6 hosts achieving the ultimate goal of 100% Uptime (compared to 5 last week):
- DreamHost
- A2 Hosting
- HostGator
- Web Hosting Hub
- SiteGround
- Bluehost
And our winner this week is DreamHost, recording the fastest time of 222ms. The last time we ran this Worldwide test (in Week 24 with KeyCDN), DreamHost’s time was 160ms, so quite a bit slower with CloudFlare.
Checking in on the overall performance of changing from KeyCDN to CloudFlare, the average response time across our 8 hosts in Week 24 was 238ms, while this week it is noticeably slower at 290ms.
And the Week 28 Winner is…
Uptime Rankings
After 26 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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