This article is for the SiteGround’s clients who find the renewal prices too high for the service. This is for shared hosting clients, i.e. who is using the following SiteGround’s plans: StartUp, GrowBig and GoGeek. Below I will explain what options you have after the first billing period is over if you don’t want to pay 2-3 times more as you paid before. Please note, this article was … [Read more...]
Alternatives To SiteGround As The Renewal Price Increased After The First Billing Period
April 10, 2024 By 26 Comments
I Asked ChatGPT To Recommend The Best Hosting And Its Reply Was …
February 16, 2023 By 6 Comments
Just a short post as my input to popularisation of ChatGPT :) Not sponsored, as usual, truly my recommendations :) I have been playing with ChatGPT lately, which is a text-based AI chat bot if you have still been ignoring the hype :) Yeah, I've joined the hype, and even decided to make a short post. Although I am not a follow-the-hype person at all, by the way. Before revealing you what … [Read more...]
The Hosts That Performed Best In 2021 (Millions Of Uptime And Speed Tests)
January 17, 2022 By 8 Comments
This post summarizes all monthly reports about how 4 selected hosts performed in 2021. This outlines more than 7.5 millions of measurements (including speed and uptime tests). Also, in this post I will name the most reliable and the fastest hosting in 2021 according to the non-stop tests done throughout the whole year. Intro I've been monitoring the performance (uptime, full page … [Read more...]
Hosting Performance Contest – November 2021 Roundup (#70, The Last One)
December 5, 2021 By Leave a Comment
Here's the 70th Monthly Hosting Performance Contest Roundup for November 2021! This is the last monthly hosting performance report. I'm finishing non-stop monitoring hosts (read more about my decision here). I installed a default WordPress site with no plugins used ("Lite" installation) on four hosts (A2, GeekStorage, HawkHost and GlowHost). And on three hosts (A2, GeekStorage and HawkHost) I … [Read more...]
I’m Stopping Hosting Performance Reports – Some Insights
November 19, 2021 By 18 Comments
As you might know, I’ve been monitoring performance of several hosts in a non-stop manner since 2016. I’ve issued 69 monthly reports having gathered a solid data on speed, uptime and performance index of the hosts for these almost 6 years. And the next monthly report for November will be the 70th anniversary and the last one. Below I will share with you why I made this decision from a personal … [Read more...]
Hosting Performance Contest – October 2021 Roundup (#69)
November 3, 2021 By Leave a Comment
Here's the 69th Monthly Hosting Performance Contest Roundup for October 2021! I installed a default WordPress site with no plugins used ("Lite" installation) on four hosts (A2, GeekStorage, HawkHost and GlowHost). And on three hosts (A2, GeekStorage and HawkHost) I installed a heavy-loaded WordPress site with a free caching plugin, lots of plugins and the tested page flooded with content that I … [Read more...]
Hosting Performance Contest – September 2021 Roundup (#68)
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Here's the 68th Monthly Hosting Performance Contest Roundup for September 2021! I installed a default WordPress site with no plugins used ("Lite" installation) on four hosts (A2, GeekStorage, HawkHost and GlowHost). And on three hosts (A2, GeekStorage and HawkHost) I installed a heavy-loaded WordPress site with a free caching plugin, lots of plugins and the tested page flooded with content that … [Read more...]
Hosting Performance Contest – August 2021 Roundup (#67)
September 4, 2021 By Leave a Comment
Here's the 67th Monthly Hosting Performance Contest Roundup for August 2021! I installed a default WordPress site with no plugins used ("Lite" installation) on four hosts (A2, GeekStorage, HawkHost and GlowHost). And on three hosts (A2, GeekStorage and HawkHost) I installed a heavy-loaded WordPress site with a free caching plugin, lots of plugins and the tested page flooded with content that I … [Read more...]
Hosting Performance Contest – July 2021 Roundup (#66)
August 2, 2021 By Leave a Comment
Here's the 66th Monthly Hosting Performance Contest Roundup for July 2021! I installed a default WordPress site with no plugins used ("Lite" installation) on four hosts (A2, GeekStorage, HawkHost and GlowHost). And on three hosts (A2, GeekStorage and HawkHost) I installed a heavy-loaded WordPress site with a free caching plugin, lots of plugins and the tested page flooded with content that I … [Read more...]
Do Hosts Slow Down Or Put You On A Slower Server After Some Time? (3.5 mln speed test, 5 years,15 hosts)
July 19, 2021 By 2 Comments
You’ve probably heard of or even experienced yourself that once you start using a hosting it performs pretty well at the beginning. But after several months it looks like you are moved to a slower server. I decided to use years of my non-stop speed monitoring of 15 hosts to analyze this hypothesis. What I’ve done to analyze the speed of the hosts Took monthly average … [Read more...]