{"id":1725,"date":"2016-11-09T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2016-11-16T11:44:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T16:44:01","slug":"wordpress-com-vip-hosting-review-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/09\/wordpress-com-vip-hosting-review-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress.com VIP Hosting Review (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

WordPress.com VIP<\/a>\u00a0participated for the first\u00a0time\u00a0in WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks<\/a>. They were easily the most expensive service tested, clocking in at $5,000\/month. They also host some of the most popular WordPress sites on the web and being Automattic's flagship hosting product, it has some huge expectations riding on it.<\/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
WordPress.com VIP<\/td>\nBasic<\/td>\n$5,000<\/td>\nUnlimited<\/td>\nUnlimited<\/td>\nUnlimited<\/td>\n5<\/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
WordPress.com VIP<\/a><\/td>\n4660190<\/td>\n8151<\/td>\n3726.38<\/td>\n2588.99<\/td>\n8186<\/td>\n101<\/td>\n197.82<\/td>\n158.29<\/td>\n109.9<\/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.\u00a0WordPress.com VIP <\/a>handled this test with minimal errors and never hitting the response timeout limit of 15000ms. In fact, it had the lowest average response time and and peak response time.<\/span><\/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
WordPress.com VIP<\/td>\n146200<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n73<\/td>\n2437<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n21<\/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. WordPress.com VIP<\/a> had a\u00a017ms spread and a mere 73 timeouts out of 146,2000 requests. Certainly, top tier.<\/span><\/p>\n

Uptime<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n
Company<\/td>\nStatusCake<\/td>\nUptimeRobot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WordPress.com VIP<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Perfect.<\/span><\/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

WordPress.com VIP<\/a> stepped into the Enterprise level of our testing and proved itself worthy and earned our Top Tier WordPress Hosting Performance award. The huge expectations of being owned by the creator of WordPress, being one of the largest companies in the space and hosting some of the biggest brands in the world were met. The price for VIP is beyond what most site owners will ever likely spend, but for the few that can afford it, VIP's performance is certainly top notch.<\/p>\n

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