{"id":1687,"date":"2016-11-02T08:27:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T12:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2016-11-01T12:26:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T16:26:18","slug":"pressable-wordpress-hosting-review-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/02\/pressable-wordpress-hosting-review-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressable WordPress Hosting Review (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pressable<\/a>\u00a0participated for the second time\u00a0in WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks<\/a>. Their last participation was in the original<\/a> which was performed in 2013. They've undergone major changes since then and are now owned by Automattic. This year they had the most plans entered of any company at five into\u00a0the following ranges: $25-50\/month, $51-100\/month, $101-200\/m, $201-500\/month and Enterprise ($500+\/month).<\/p>\n

Products<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Company \/ Price Bracket<\/td>\nPlan<\/td>\nMonthly Price<\/td>\nVisitors Allowed<\/td>\nDisk Space<\/td>\nBandwidth<\/td>\nSites Allowed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable 25-50<\/td>\n5 Sites<\/td>\n$25<\/td>\n60,000<\/td>\nUnlimited<\/td>\nUnlimited<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable 51-100<\/td>\n20 Sites<\/td>\n$90<\/td>\n400,000<\/td>\nUnlimited<\/td>\nUnlimited<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable 101-200<\/td>\nAgency 1<\/td>\n$135<\/td>\n600,000<\/td>\nUnlimited<\/td>\nUnlimited<\/td>\n30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable 201-500<\/td>\nAgency 3<\/td>\n$225<\/td>\n1 Million<\/td>\nUnlimited<\/td>\nUnlimited<\/td>\n50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable Enterprise<\/td>\nVIP 1<\/td>\n$750<\/td>\n5 Million<\/td>\nUnlimited<\/td>\nUnlimited<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

They made it clear to me that the products are identical until the VIP level, each site has equal resources, the only difference\u00a0in plans\u00a0is that more sites are allowed.<\/p>\n

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Performance Review<\/h2>\n

LoadStorm Results<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Company \/ Price Bracket<\/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>\nAverage Throughput (MB\/s)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable 25-50<\/a><\/td>\n394405<\/td>\n26<\/td>\n294.6<\/td>\n219.11<\/td>\n15101<\/td>\n226<\/td>\n16.4<\/td>\n13.32<\/td>\n9.111<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable 51-100<\/a><\/td>\n569095<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n441.43<\/td>\n316.16<\/td>\n3152<\/td>\n239<\/td>\n24.35<\/td>\n20.19<\/td>\n13.53<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable 101-200<\/a><\/td>\n724499<\/td>\n1090<\/td>\n562.12<\/td>\n402.5<\/td>\n15024<\/td>\n447<\/td>\n30.91<\/td>\n26.07<\/td>\n17.17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable 201-500<\/a><\/td>\n896616<\/td>\n12256<\/td>\n740.88<\/td>\n498.12<\/td>\n6362<\/td>\n450<\/td>\n37.87<\/td>\n33.8<\/td>\n21.04<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable Enterprise<\/a><\/td>\n1538237<\/td>\n7255<\/td>\n1162.63<\/td>\n854.58<\/td>\n15099<\/td>\n733<\/td>\n29.18<\/td>\n21.95<\/td>\n16.21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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.\u00a0Pressable<\/a> overall did very well. Earning top tier status in four our of five. The 201-500 price bracket had a bit of difficulty with the increased load which disappears at the Enterprise level.<\/p>\n

Blitz Results<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Company \/ Price Bracket<\/td>\nHits<\/td>\nErrors<\/td>\nTimeouts<\/td>\nAverage Hits\/Second<\/td>\nAverage Response Time<\/td>\nFastest Response<\/td>\nSlowest Response<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable 25-50<\/td>\n25914<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n432<\/td>\n134<\/td>\n134<\/td>\n136<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable 51-100<\/td>\n51781<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n863<\/td>\n135<\/td>\n134<\/td>\n136<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable 101-200<\/td>\n77652<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n1294<\/td>\n134<\/td>\n141<\/td>\n133<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable 201-500<\/td>\n77850<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n1298<\/td>\n132<\/td>\n131<\/td>\n135<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable Enterprise<\/td>\n129866<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n2164<\/td>\n132<\/td>\n131<\/td>\n139<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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.\u00a0Pressable<\/a> had zero issues with the Blitz tests across every plan. Their caching is certainly up to snuff.<\/p>\n

Uptime<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Company<\/td>\nStatusCake<\/td>\nUptimeRobot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable 25-50<\/td>\n99.91<\/td>\n99.92<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable 51-100<\/td>\n99.93<\/td>\n99.95<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable 101-200<\/td>\n99.96<\/td>\n99.94<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pressable 201-500<\/td>\n99.88<\/td>\n99.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Oddly enough, Uptime was one of the biggest struggles for Pressable<\/a>. The 201-500 plan didn't earn top tier status because it fell below the 99.9% threshold averaging 99.89 between the two monitors. The rest were closer to the 99.9% mark than the 100% mark which, while above the expected threshold, I'd like to see a bit of improvement in.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

WebPageTest \/ WPPerformanceTester<\/h3>\n

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<\/a> or what the raw computing power test of WPPerformanceTester<\/a> measured, read the full results<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n

Pressable<\/a>\u00a0managed to earn four Top Tier WordPress Hosting Performances out of five plans. Overall, the performance is excellent and they can scale from $25\/month to Enterprise size workloads. I'd like to see some minor improvements in uptime, but apart from that small issue, they don't have much else to improve on. It's great to see a strong competitor at virtually every price level in the space.<\/p>\n

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