{"id":2316,"date":"2019-04-02T17:21:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T21:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/?page_id=2316"},"modified":"2019-05-16T11:02:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T15:02:30","slug":"51-100-month-wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/51-100-month-wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"$51-100\/Month WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The full company list, product list, methodology, and notes can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This post focuses only on the results of the testing in the $51-100\/month price bracket for WordPress Hosting.<\/p>\n

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Other Price Tier Results<\/h2>\n

<$25\/Month Tier<\/a>$25-50\/Month Tier<\/a>$51-100\/Month Tier<\/a>$101-200\/Month Tier<\/a>$201-500\/Month Tier<\/a>$500+\/Month (Enterprise) Tier<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Hosting Plan Details<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Click table for full product information.<\/em><\/p>\n

Load Storm Testing Results<\/h2>\n

Load Storm is designed to simulate real users visiting the site, logging in and browsing. It tests uncached performance.
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Results Table<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Company Name<\/td>\nTotal Requests<\/td>\nTotal Errors<\/td>\nPeak RPS<\/td>\nAverage RPS<\/td>\nPeak Response Time(ms)<\/td>\nAverage Response Time (ms)<\/td>\nTotal Data Transferred (GB)<\/td>\nPeak Throughput (MB\/s)<\/td>\n\n
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Average Throughput (MB\/s)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A2 Hosting<\/a><\/td>\n502,905<\/td>\n296<\/td>\n417.78<\/td>\n279.39<\/td>\n15,104<\/td>\n753<\/td>\n29<\/td>\n22<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cloudways<\/a><\/td>\n475,370<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n394.27<\/td>\n264.09<\/td>\n8,848<\/td>\n786<\/td>\n28.26<\/td>\n21<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DreamHost<\/a><\/td>\n519,329<\/td>\n338<\/td>\n566.62<\/td>\n288.52<\/td>\n15,180<\/td>\n689<\/td>\n28.29<\/td>\n26<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Incendia Web Works<\/a><\/td>\n525,677<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n426.30<\/td>\n292.04<\/td>\n7,314<\/td>\n564<\/td>\n32.18<\/td>\n27<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kinsta<\/a><\/td>\n535,858<\/td>\n105<\/td>\n408.67<\/td>\n297.70<\/td>\n2,372<\/td>\n440<\/td>\n32.83<\/td>\n25<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lightning Base<\/a><\/td>\n543,591<\/td>\n74<\/td>\n403.62<\/td>\n302.00<\/td>\n15,101<\/td>\n654<\/td>\n32.64<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liquid Web<\/a><\/td>\n502,825<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n385.33<\/td>\n279.35<\/td>\n6,397<\/td>\n728<\/td>\n30.35<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable<\/a><\/td>\n618,543<\/td>\n32<\/td>\n472.27<\/td>\n343.63<\/td>\n5,611<\/td>\n425<\/td>\n34.07<\/td>\n26<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Servebolt.com<\/a><\/td>\n838,083<\/td>\n26<\/td>\n637.12<\/td>\n465.60<\/td>\n6,456<\/td>\n97<\/td>\n32.06<\/td>\n25<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WPX Hosting<\/a><\/td>\n585,724<\/td>\n637<\/td>\n534.75<\/td>\n325.40<\/td>\n15,102<\/td>\n221<\/td>\n33.8<\/td>\n36<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Discussion<\/h3>\n

IWW<\/a>, Kinsta<\/a>, LightningBase<\/a>, Pressable<\/a>, Servebolt<\/a>, and WPX Hosting<\/a> all handled the Load Storm test without issue.<\/p>\n

A2 Hosting<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>] and DreamHost<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>] showed increased response times and error rates as the test scaled.<\/p>\n

Cloudways<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>] and LiquidWeb<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>] showed increased response times as the test scaled but no errors.<\/p>\n

Load Impact Testing Results<\/h2>\n

Load Impact is designed to test cached performance by repeatedly requesting the homepage.
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Results Table<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Company Name<\/td>\nRequests<\/td>\nErrors<\/td>\nData Transferred (GB)<\/td>\nPeak Average Load Time (ms)<\/td>\nPeak Average Bandwidth (Mbps)<\/td>\nPeak Average Requests\/Sec<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A2 Hosting<\/a><\/td>\n378227<\/td>\n76<\/td>\n20.67<\/td>\n4330<\/td>\n235<\/td>\n526<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cloudways<\/a><\/td>\n513214<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n28.7<\/td>\n1210<\/td>\n413<\/td>\n903<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DreamHost<\/a><\/td>\n561713<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n31.35<\/td>\n1110<\/td>\n486<\/td>\n1040<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Incendia Web Works<\/a><\/td>\n595361<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n32.97<\/td>\n685<\/td>\n573<\/td>\n1230<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kinsta<\/a><\/td>\n602521<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n33.49<\/td>\n608<\/td>\n571<\/td>\n1220<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lightning Base<\/a><\/td>\n604400<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n34.1<\/td>\n629<\/td>\n557<\/td>\n1180<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liquid Web<\/a><\/td>\n322836<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n18.13<\/td>\n3660<\/td>\n198<\/td>\n431<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable<\/a><\/td>\n563149<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n32.04<\/td>\n724<\/td>\n542<\/td>\n1140<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Servebolt.com<\/a><\/td>\n760656<\/td>\n34<\/td>\n41.59<\/td>\n619<\/td>\n741<\/td>\n1570<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WPX Hosting<\/a><\/td>\n847119<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n46.84<\/td>\n242<\/td>\n785<\/td>\n1690<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Discussion<\/h3>\n

IWW, Kinsta, LightningBase, Pressable, Servebolt, and WPX Hosting all handled the Load Impact test without issue.<\/p>\n

A2 Hosting, Cloudways, DreamHost and LiquidWeb all had increased response times during the Load Impact test.<\/p>\n

Uptime Monitoring Results<\/h2>\n

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Results Table<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Company Name<\/td>\nUptimeRobot<\/td>\nStatusCake<\/td>\nStatusCake Avg Response Time<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A2 Hosting<\/td>\n99.833<\/td>\n99.85%<\/td>\n0.550s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cloudways<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n100%<\/td>\n0.546s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DreamHost<\/td>\n99.866<\/td>\n99.79%<\/td>\n0.482s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Incendia Web Works<\/td>\n98.487<\/td>\n100%<\/td>\n0.444s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kinsta<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n100%<\/td>\n0.519s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lightning Base<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n100%<\/td>\n0.420s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liquid Web<\/td>\n99.989<\/td>\n99.99%<\/td>\n0.486s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n99.96%<\/td>\n0.700s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Servebolt.com<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n100%<\/td>\n0.318s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WPX Hosting<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n100%<\/td>\n0.257s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Discussion<\/h3>\n

A2 Hosting and DreamHost's uptime fell below 99.9%.<\/p>\n

Incendia Web Works downtime was because of a bad SSL certificate renewal bug in their system. Two of three servers got the updated certificate after 3 month renewal of Lets Encrypt and one didn't sync causing the uptime monitor to report downtime if it got the bad certificate. It's been fixed, but it wasn't early enough for the downtime to show up as below the 99.9% threshold expected. Because of the way each of the monitoring systems work, it seems StatusCake was more forgiving about SSL certs showing 100% uptime. The website never actually went offline, but users might have gotten an SSL warning.<\/p>\n

Everyone else was above the 99.9% threshold.<\/p>\n

WebPageTest.org Results<\/h2>\n

WebPageTest fully loads the homepage and records how long it takes from 11 different locations around the world.<\/p>\n

Results Table<\/h3>\n
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