With KeyCDN, Cloudflare & WP Super Cache all setup, lets find out which host is performing reliably this week in North America?
Uptime Test – Week 75 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 North American 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: Namecheap
WordPress Host #3: GoDaddy
WordPress Host #4: Lightning Base
WordPress Host #5: InMotion Hosting
WordPress Host #6: HostGator
WordPress Host #7: Bluehost
WordPress Host #8: Web Hosting Hub
Uptime Test – Week 75 Summary Table
Our hosts have recorded a poor uptime performance this week, with just 2 hosts achieving the ultimate goal of 100% Uptime (5 hosts achieved 100% in Week 74):
- Lightning Base
- SiteGround
This week’s best performer in North America is Lightning Base, with a perfect uptime and the fastest average response time of 164ms.
The last time we tested from North America with KeyCDN, Cloudflare & W3 Total Cache setup (in Week 72), the average response time across our 8 hosts was 259ms, while this week with WP Super Cache replacing W3 Total Cache, it is significantly slower at 1,148ms.
This is the first week of our KeyCDN, Cloudflare & WP Super Cache Speed Study and the early signs are that the change to WP Super Cache is having a massive negative impact to our response times.
Next week we will swing our testing location over to Europe, I wonder whether this will offer any assistance to WP Super Cache?
And this Week’s Winner is…
Uptime Rankings
After 18 months 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.