{"id":1703,"date":"2016-11-07T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2016-11-01T12:29:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T16:29:55","slug":"dreamhost-dreampress-wordpress-hosting-review-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/07\/dreamhost-dreampress-wordpress-hosting-review-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"DreamHost \/ DreamPress WordPress Hosting Review (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

DreamHost<\/a> participated for the third year in a row\u00a0in WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks<\/a>.\u00a0Last year, I wrote:<\/p>\n

DreamPress improved their performance a lot over last round. In fact they did fantastically well on every load test once I got the opportunity to actually work with their engineers to bypass the security measures. However, they failed pretty badly on the uptime metrics. I have no idea what happened but I experienced a huge amount of downtime and ran into some very strange errors. If it wasn't for the severe downtime issues, DreamPress could have been in the top tier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This year, they made even further progress and earned that Top Tier status. DreamHost<\/a> also are the second highest rated shared hosting company here at Review Signal in terms of customer opinion.<\/p>\n

Products<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n
Company<\/td>\nPlan<\/td>\nMonthly Price<\/td>\nVisitors Allowed<\/td>\nDisk Space<\/td>\nBandwidth<\/td>\nSites Allowed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DreamHost<\/td>\nDreamPress<\/td>\n$19.95<\/td>\nUnlimited<\/td>\n30GB<\/td>\nUnlimited<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

View Full Product Details<\/a><\/p>\n

Performance Review<\/h2>\n

LoadStorm Results<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n
Company<\/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
DreamHost<\/a><\/td>\n295685<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n224.1<\/td>\n164.27<\/td>\n15063<\/td>\n339<\/td>\n16.06<\/td>\n13.5<\/td>\n8.922<\/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.\u00a0DreamHost<\/a> did exceptionally well with almost no errors and fast aerage response time.<\/p>\n

Blitz Results<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n
Company<\/td>\nHits<\/td>\nErrors<\/td>\nTimeouts<\/td>\nAverage Hits\/Second<\/td>\nAverage Response Time<\/td>\nFastest Response<\/td>\nSlowest Response<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DreamHost<\/td>\n29337<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n489<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n7<\/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.\u00a0DreamHost<\/a> was near perfect with a ridiculously quick 4ms average response time (which is likely due to being physically close to the testing server) and 4ms spread which is excellent.<\/p>\n

Uptime<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n
Company<\/td>\nStatusCake<\/td>\nUptimeRobot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DreamHost<\/td>\n99.97<\/td>\n99.97<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Not much to say here beyond DreamHost<\/a> had good uptime at 99.97%.<\/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

DreamHost<\/a> continues to step up their performance game. Last year, a severe uptime issue knocked them out of earning awards. This year, there were no such problems. They handled every test near flawlessly and earned themselves a Top Tier WordPress Hosting Performance award. I always am happy to see companies continually improve their performance. It's good for the space to have another strong competitor at the entry level price range.<\/p>\n

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