$101-200/Month WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks (2019)

The full company list, product list, methodology, and notes can be found here.

This post focuses only on the results of the testing in the $101-200/month price bracket for WordPress Hosting.

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Hosting Plan Details

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Load Storm Testing Results

Load Storm is designed to simulate real users visiting the site, logging in and browsing. It tests uncached performance.

Results Table

Company Name	Total Requests	Total Errors	Peak RPS	Average RPS	Peak Response Time(ms)	Average Response Time (ms)	Total Data Transferred (GB)	Peak Throughput (MB/s)	Average Throughput (MB/s)
Cloudways	697,841	0	569.98	387.69	4,651	498	41.88	35	23
Kinsta	723,242	0	555.97	401.80	7,926	390	44.4	35	25
Liquid Web	569,667	0	410.28	316.48	9,236	1,211	33.72	24	19
Pressable	798,038	3,036	608.52	443.35	15,527	460	43.59	34	24
Savvii	649,373	113,950	501.18	360.76	14,077	971	31	23	17
Servebolt.com	1,108,623	22	851.93	615.90	10,055	65	42.39	33	24
SiteGround	925,645	2,045	754.25	514.25	15,102	608	33.69	28	19

Discussion

Cloudways [Reviews], Kinsta, and Servebolt.com all handled the Lost Storm test without issue.

LiquidWeb [Reviews] had substantially increased response times as the test went on.

Pressable showed slight response time increases and a 0.38% error rate.

Savvii did not handle the Load Storm test well.

SiteGround [Reviews] showed a slight 0.22% error rate.

Load Impact Testing Results

Load Impact is designed to test cached performance by repeatedly requesting the homepage.

Results Table

Company Name	Requests	Errors	Data Transferred (GB)	Peak Average Load Time (ms)	Peak Average Bandwidth (Mbps)	Peak Average Requests/Sec
Cloudways	850691	1	47.6	749	805	1720
Kinsta	894981	0	49.75	624	815	1750
Liquid Web	360870	0	20.32	5740	214	464
Pressable	842967	0	47.96	721	814	1700
Savvii	688233	30	38.4	1820	500	1070
Servebolt.com	1092189	29	61.27	561	938	1070
SiteGround	877152	27	48.83	666	794	1990

Discussion

Cloudways, Kinsta, Pressable, Servebolt.com, and SiteGround all handled the Load Impact test without issue.

LiquidWeb showed significant signs of load with increased response times but zero errors.

Savvii showed significantly increased response times.

Uptime Monitoring Results

Results Table

Company Name	UptimeRobot	StatusCake	StatusCake Avg Response Time
Cloudways	100	100%	0.535s
Kinsta	100	100%	0.346s
Liquid Web	100	100%	0.552s
Pressable	100	99.96%	0.828s
Savvii	99.988	100%	0.462s
Servebolt.com	100	100%	0.359s
SiteGround	99.991	99.99%	0.465s

Discussion

The lowest uptime was a hair under 99.99% which is amazing for everyone.

WebPageTest.org Results

WebPageTest fully loads the homepage and records how long it takes from 11 different locations around the world.

Results Table

Company Name	WPT Dulles	WPT Denver	WPT LA	WPT London	WPT Frankfurt	WPT Rose Hill, Mauritius
Cloudways	0.728	0.934	0.892	1.114	1.275	2.553
Kinsta	0.558	0.819	0.781	1.007	1.069	2.29
Liquid Web	0.559	0.897	0.882	0.883	1.095	2.234
Pressable	0.621	1.444	2.003	1.238	1.342	3.823
Savvii	0.911	1.423	1.419	0.447	0.47	1.936
Servebolt.com	0.497	1.682	1.163	0.735	0.801	2.127
SiteGround	0.523	0.727	1.148	0.918	1.031	2.538

Company Name	WPT Singapore	WPT Mumbai	WPT Japan	WPT Sydney	WPT Brazil
Cloudways	1.387	1.92	1.096	1.508	1.411
Kinsta	1.704	2.003	1.241	1.583	1.357
Liquid Web	1.775	1.78	1.37	1.746	1.16
Pressable	3.51	2.682	2.098	2.696	2.178
Savvii	1.43	1.262	2.106	2.522	1.648
Servebolt.com	1.421	1.653	1.188	1.443	1.16
SiteGround	2.505	1.889	1.52	1.855	1.347

Discussion

There's no clearcut fast everywhere compared to their peers host in this price bracket.

Pressable is the slowest in 9/11 locales.

WPPerformanceTester Results

WPPerformanceTester performs two benchmarks. One is a WordPress (WP Bench) and the other a PHP benchmark. WP Bench measures how many WP queries per second and higher tends to be better (varies considerably by architecture). PHP Bench performs a lot of computational and some database operations which are measured in seconds to complete. Lower PHP Bench is better. WP Bench is blue in the chart, PHP Bench is red.

Results Table

Company Name	PHP Bench	WP Bench
Cloudways	9.911	578.3689994
Kinsta	10.654	1101.321586
Liquid Web	11.829	637.3486297
Pressable	11.565	165.3439153
Savvii	11.623	238.5496183
Servebolt.com	3.81	1477.104874
SiteGround	10.033	908.2652134

Discussion

Servebolt had incredibly fast PHP and WP Bench scores.

Qualsys SSL Report Grade

The tool is available at https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/

Results Table

Company Name	Qualys SSL Report
Cloudways	A
Kinsta	A
Liquid Web	A
Pressable	A
Savvii	A
Servebolt.com	A+
SiteGround	A

Discussion

Everyone got an A, Servebolt earned an A+.

Conclusion

Top Tier

Cloudways [Reviews], Kinsta and Servebolt all handled the tests without issue and earned Top Tier status.

Honorable Mention

Pressable and SiteGround [Reviews] each earned an honorable mention. Pressable started to show a bit of load on the Load Storm test with slight increase in response times and a few errors. SiteGround had a low error rate but there seemed to be a few throughout the whole Load Storm test.

Individual Host Analysis

Cloudways [Reviews]

100% uptime and 1 cumulative error. Doesn't get much better than that. Top Tier.

Kinsta

Zero errors on load tests and 100% uptime. Kinsta earns another Top Tier award.

LiquidWeb [Reviews]

Liquid Web had 100% uptime and zero errors. The only difference between this being top tier and not is the average response time increased substantially during the load tests. While the servers kept running and didn't miss a single request, they got noticeably slower which kept Liquid Web out of any sort of recognition.

Pressable

100% and 99.96% uptime were excellent. Zero errors on the Load Impact test. The only minor issue was the .38% error rate on the Load Storm and slight increase in response times as well. Definitely worthy of an honorable mention.

Savvii

100% and 99.988% uptime were a solid start. The load tests proved to be a bit much though. Load Storm errored out and Load Impact showed signs of stress.

Servebolt.com

Perfect uptime, 57 cumulative errors on the load tests and the fastest average response times for both load tests made Servebolt.com an easy candidate for earning Top Tier status.

SiteGround [Reviews]

SiteGround had 99.99% uptime and handled Load Impact effortlessly. The only minor knock was the 0.22% error rate during the Load Storm test. Overall, a great performance which earned it Honorable Mention status.