Uptime Test - Week 5

I wonder how many outages have impacted our hosts this week?

After checking from a worldwide perspective last week, we have narrowed our focus to North America this week. Will that shake things up in our rankings?

Uptime Test – Week 5 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 North America
Frequency of Testing: Every Minute across the Last 7 Days
Total Number of 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

Total Tests

WordPress Host #1: SiteGround

SiteGround Uptime Dashboard - Week 5

SiteGround Uptime Response Time - Week 5

SiteGround Uptime Status - Week 5

WordPress Host #2: A2 Hosting

A2 Uptime Dashboard - Week 5

A2 Uptime Response Time - Week 5

A2 Uptime Status - Week 5

WordPress Host #3: GoDaddy

GoDaddy Uptime Dashboard - Week 5

GoDaddy Uptime Response Time - Week 5

GoDaddy Uptime Status - Week 5

WordPress Host #4: DreamHost

DreamHost Uptime Dashboard - Week 5

DreamHost Uptime Response Time - Week 5

DreamHost Uptime Status - Week 5

WordPress Host #5: InMotion Hosting

InMotion Uptime Dashboard - Week 5

InMotion Uptime Response Time - Week 5

InMotion Uptime Status - Week 5

WordPress Host #6: HostGator

HostGator Uptime Dashboard - Week5

HostGator Uptime Response Time - Week 5

HostGator Uptime Status - Week 5

WordPress Host #7: Bluehost

Bluehost Uptime Dashboard - Week 5

Bluehost Uptime Response Time - Week 5

Bluehost Uptime Status - Week 5

WordPress Host #8: Web Hosting Hub

Hub Uptime Dashboard - Week 5

Hub Uptime Response Time - Week 5

Hub Uptime Status - Week 5

Uptime Test – Week 5 Summary Table

Just 2 of our hosts aced the uptime this week:

GoDaddy has continued on strongly from its 100% uptime last week to take out the North American win this week.
SiteGround has recovered from their first outage last week, to move from 6th all the way up to 2nd.

While A2 Hosting had the fastest average response time, it fell to 6th due to an 11 minute outage.