{"id":899,"date":"2014-12-15T04:36:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T09:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/?p=899"},"modified":"2015-01-21T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T08:00:13","slug":"godaddy-wordpress-hosting-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/15\/godaddy-wordpress-hosting-review\/","title":{"rendered":"GoDaddy WordPress Hosting Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This post is based off\u00a0WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks<\/a>,\u00a0where you can read the\u00a0full details of how GoDaddy performed against the\u00a0competition.<\/b><\/h2>\n

Overview<\/b><\/h2>\n

GoDaddy<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>] is the company that sparked this series of WordPress performance testing. They said their WordPress hosting was as good as anyone else on the markets WordPress hosting. I wanted to see if it was true in\u00a0our\u00a0first round of WordPress testing<\/a>\u00a0and it certainly was. The second round of testing did not disappoint either. GoDaddy maintained their position in the top tier of managed WordPress providers. This article summarizes GoDaddy's performance under multiple testing scenarios.<\/p>\n

The Plan<\/b><\/h2>\n

All testing was done on GoDaddy's shared WordPress Hosting<\/a> service which cost $6.99\/month.The plan allows for 1 site, 100GB of space and 25,000 visitors per month. It also had the usual features of automated backups, 24\/7 support via phone or ticket and free migrations.<\/p>\n

Performance<\/b><\/h2>\n

LoadStorm<\/h3>\n

The first performance test was done with\u00a0LoadStorm<\/a>. GoDaddy<\/a>\u00a0made it to the final round of testing where 2000 concurrent users were logging into WordPress and browsing the test site. The test was designed to test non-cached performance by logging users into WordPress. It caused many hosting setups to crumble. You can see GoDaddy's result in this graph (click on it to play with the interactive results):<\/p>\n

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GoDaddy actually pushed through triple the amount of data compared to every other web hosting company. Amazingly, it didn't struggle with this at all. The error rate was an infinitesimal, only 92 errors in over 285,000 requests. Other than a little spike, it handled the entire test without missing a beat.<\/p>\n

Blitz<\/h3>\n

The second load test that was run on GoDaddy\u00a0was Blitz.io. Blitz was used to test cached performance. It simply requested the home page of our test site from 1-2000 times per second.<\/p>\n

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GoDaddy<\/a>'s Blitz results look exactly like what you hope for. A small spike at the very beginning and then perfectly stable performance afterwards. There are no complaints against its cached performance.\u00a0Full Blitz Results (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n

Uptime<\/h3>\n

Two third-party uptime monitoring services (UptimeRobot and StatusCake) tracked the test site for a month. The results for GoDaddy was 99.9% and 100% uptime respectively. That is the uptime level you would expect of any good service.<\/p>\n

WebPageTest<\/h3>\n

\u201cWebPagetest is an open source project that is primarily being developed and supported by Google as part of our efforts to\u00a0make the web faster<\/a>.\u201d WebPageTest grades performance and allows you to run tests from multiple locations simulating real users. GoDaddy was tested from Dulles, VA, Miami, FL, Denver, CO, and Los Angeles, CA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Company<\/td>\nDulles,VA<\/td>\nMiami, FL<\/td>\nDenver, CO<\/td>\nLos Angeles, CA<\/td>\nAverage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GoDaddy<\/td>\n1.607<\/td>\n1.355<\/td>\n0.934<\/td>\n0.855<\/td>\n1.18775<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

There was absolutely no issues with their WebPageTest results, it loaded very quickly at an average speed of under 1.2 seconds to completely load.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/b><\/h2>\n

GoDaddy<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>]\u00a0is one of the top tier WordPress hosting providers when looking at performance. GoDaddy continues to surprise me. They flew through all the tests, including a weird issue where they transferred 3X the data during the LoadStorm test and didn\u2019t show any signs of stress. The only comparison I have to last time is the Blitz testing, where they eked out another 3000+ hits and raised their hits\/second from 829 to 888. GoDaddy also raised their max hit rate marginally from 1750 to 1763. What\u2019s more impressive is they reduced their errors+timeouts from 686 to 93. More hits with less errors. From a performance perspective, they did excellent in absolute terms and relative to their last benchmarks.<\/p>\n

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