{"id":915,"date":"2015-01-20T01:19:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T06:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/?p=915"},"modified":"2015-01-21T02:59:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T07:59:34","slug":"pantheon-wordpress-hosting-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/20\/pantheon-wordpress-hosting-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Pantheon WordPress Hosting Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is based off\u00a0WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks (2014)<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Overview<\/h2>\n

Pantheon<\/a>\u00a0is one of the new comers into the managed WordPress space. They came over from the Drupal world where they focused on developers and enterprise. They've taken their developer tools and brought them to the WordPress space and made quite a splash leaping into our top tier of managed WordPress hosting companies.<\/p>\n

The Plan<\/h2>\n

All testing was done on the Professional plan (shared) and using the WordPress stack. The plan had 20GB of space and allowed 100,000 visitors per month. The price was $100\/month.<\/p>\n

Performance<\/h2>\n

LoadStorm<\/h3>\n

The first performance test was done with\u00a0LoadStorm<\/a>. Pantheon made 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 Pantheon's result in this graph (click on it to play with the interactive results):<\/p>\n

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\"Load-Storm-Pantheon-2000\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Pantheon had a whopping zero errors and scaled without issue. \u00a0LoadStorm<\/a> independently analyzed my testing and named Pantheon as performing the best of any WordPress company tested.<\/p>\n

Blitz<\/h3>\n

The second load test that was run on Pantheon\u00a0was Blitz. Blitz was used to test cached performance. It simply requested the home page\u00a0from 1-2000 times per second.<\/p>\n

\"Blitz-Pantheon-2000\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Pantheon's result looks like it was from a textbook. It maintained roughly the same response time from one to two thousand concurrent users.\u00a0Full Blitz Results (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n

Uptime<\/h3>\n

Two third-party uptime monitoring services (StatusCake and UptimeRobot) tracked the test site for a month. The results for\u00a0Pantheon\u00a0in both cases was perfect uptime. There's nothing more to say than that.<\/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. Pantheon 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
Pantheon<\/td>\n0.654<\/td>\n0.828<\/td>\n0.923<\/td>\n0.954<\/td>\n0.83975<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

There was absolutely no issues with their WebPageTest results, it loaded very quickly with a great average speed of under one second.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/h3>\n

Pantheon<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0specialized in Drupal hosting, so I was wondering how well it would translate to WordPress. The short answer is, it converted over really well. They had a flawless run on the LoadStorm test - zero errors and not even any spikes in response time over 30 minutes. Pantheon is one of the more expensive options on the market, but they make a very strong case for it. Perfect uptime and near flawless load testing sent them easily into the top tier.<\/p>\n

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