Pressidium WordPress Hosting Review (2016)

Pressidium participated for the second year in a row in WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks. They had four plans entered into the following ranges: $51-100/month, $101-200/month, $201-500/month and Enterprise ($500+/month).

Last year, Pressidium earned top tier status, this year they managed a repeat on every plan.

Products

Company / Price Bracket	Plan	Monthly Price	Visitors Allowed	Disk Space	Bandwidth	Sites Allowed
Pressidium 51-100	Professional	~~$69.90~~ 149.90	100,000	20 GB	Unlimited	10
Pressidium 101-200	Business	~~$199~~ $299	500,000	30 GB	Unlimited	25
Pressidium 201-500	Premium	~~$499~~ $599.90	1 Million	40 GB	Unlimited	50
Pressidium Enterprise	Enterprise-1	$1,300	1.5 Million	60 GB	Unlimited	Unlimited

Prices have increased since the original tests, the original prices are crossed out, with the new pricing listed.

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Performance Review

LoadStorm Results

Company / Price Bracket	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)
Pressidium 51-100	429538	0	335.78	238.63	3030	306	16.11	13.26	8.951
Pressidium 101-200	563624	0	435.43	313.12	3561	272	30.82	24.44	17.12
Pressidium 201-500	697020	0	547.88	387.23	4894	266	38.16	31.05	21.2
Pressidium Enterprise	1349118	3792	1076.52	749.51	11798	324	73.63	60.18	40.91

LoadStorm test logged in thousands of users to simulate heavy uncached load on the server, scaling up with more users on larger plans after the $25-50/month range. Pressidium was perfect on the first three tests and did excellent at the Enterprise level. Zero errors on the first three tests and only a handful on the Enterprise test which nobody achieved a zero on.

Blitz Results

Company	Hits	Errors	Timeouts	Average Hits/Second	Average Response Time	Fastest Response	Slowest Response
Pressidium 51-100	57348	1	0	956	27	25	30
Pressidium 101-200	85916	6	0	1432	27	25	31
Pressidium 201-500	85439	11	14	1424	31	25	82
Pressidium Enterprise	143452	0	2	2391	26	24	35

The Blitz test is designed to make sure that static assets (which should be served from cache) are being handled properly and can scale to very heavy big spikes in traffic. If the LoadStorm test was a clinic, this was absolute perfection. Pressidium had near perfect tests at every level: almost no errors/timeouts and stable response time. The only exception was the 201-500 range, it had a minor spike at the end which increased the response time to a measley 82ms.

Uptime

Company	StatusCake	UptimeRobot
Pressidium 51-100	100	99.99
Pressidium 101-200	99.97	99.99
Pressidium 201-500	99.95	99.99

Uptime wasn't tracked on most Enterprise level plans because they are just so expensive that it felt wasteful to run them for a long period doing nothing but monitoring uptime if the company had other plans in the testing which could also be measured.

Pressidium did well in the uptime monitoring, keeping above 99.95% on all monitors.

WebPageTest / WPPerformanceTester

I mention these because they are in the full testing but I won't bother putting them here. No company had any significant issue with either and it's not worth writing about. If you're very interested in seeing the geographical response times on WPT or what the raw computing power test of WPPerformanceTester measured, read the full results.

Conclusion

Pressidium managed to earn four Top Tier WordPress Hosting Performances, an impressive feat. Another year, another excellent performance like what I am beginning to expect from these guys.