This year was also full of interesting articles that took advantage of our unique position in the web hosting review space. The WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks (2016)<\/a> was the biggest hit as usual. It grew massively in size\/scope and tested companies across multiple price tiers up to Enterprise WordPress Hosting<\/a>.<\/p>\n I also wrote about the Dirty, Slimy Secrets of the Web Hosting Review Underworld<\/a>. I also tracked some major changes with The Rise and Fall of A Small Orange<\/a> and The Sinking of Site 5<\/a> which tracked Endurance International Group acquisitions and how their ratings fell post-acquisition. A Small Orange's fall from grace even caused the first ranking algorithm update<\/a> on Review Signal's history.<\/p>\n Best Shared Hosting 2016 \u2013 SiteGround<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>] (74.2%)<\/p>\n Best Specialty Hosting 2016 \u2013 FlyWheel<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>] (83.7%)<\/p>\n Best Managed VPS Hosting 2016\u00a0\u2013 KnownHost<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>] (80.9%)<\/p>\n Best Unmanaged VPS Hosting 2016\u00a0\u2013 Digital Ocean<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>] (71.3%)<\/p>\n Best Support 2016 \u2013 SiteGround<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>] \u00a0(80.81%).\u00a0KnownHost<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>], LiquidWeb<\/a> [Reviews<\/a>], WiredTree<\/a> [Reviews<\/a>] all tied for second at 80% (WiredTree was acquired by LiquidWeb in 2016).<\/p>\n A big congratulations goes out to all of this years winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2016 Year in Review I like to take this opportunity to look back at the year and see how Review Signal has changed. This past year we added\u00a0~36,000 new reviews. Added one new company:\u00a0WebFaction. 49.6% of reviews were positive overall. 52.1% of unique reviews were positive. What is interesting about the difference is that people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,2],"tags":[18,17,25,127,132,19,137,50,203,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/best_webhosting_2016-625x467.png\")
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