Hosting Performance Contest – May 2020 Roundup (15 Hosts Tested: No Failed Uptime)

Here's the 52nd Monthly Hosting Performance Contest Roundup for May 2020! I've been testing 15 hosts in a non-stop manner the whole month and I'll show you the results below. The interesting observation is that all the monitored hosts had uptime which exceeded the benchmark level set for the greatest hosts. By the way, you can find the latest roundups here and the performance tables and charts … [Read more...]

Recommended Hosting For E-Commerce Websites (WooCommerce, Magento, Prestashop etc) Which Take Things Seriously

In this post I will not only share with you the hosts which I recommend for hosting e-commerce websites, but also I will explain some compliance nuances which many hosting providers prefer to avoid mentioning. Here's a disclosure: in this article I mentioned several hosts and a website security service which I have carefully selected according to requirements that I explained in this … [Read more...]

Hosting Performance Contest – April 2020 Roundup (15 Hosts Tested: The Mids Lose)

Here's the 51st Monthly Hosting Performance Contest Roundup for April 2020! I've been testing 15 hosts in a non-stop manner the whole month and I'll show you the results below. The interesting observation is that the middle-priced hosts did not get into the top winner positions. By the way, you can find the latest roundups here and the performance tables and charts here. All monitored hosts … [Read more...]

Quality Of SiteGround Speed Compared With Other Hosts During The Whole Year. 788K Tests

In this article I’d like to analyze in-depth the speed performance of SiteGround in 2019 and compare it to other hosts. I’ve done almost 800,000 speed (Full Page Load Time) tests of 15 shared hosts including SiteGround during the whole year in a non-stop mode from the 1st of January to the 31st of December. I have websites hosted with each hosting and every host was tested three times per hour … [Read more...]

Hosting Performance Contest – March 2020 Roundup (15 Hosts Tested: Less Than A Second)

Here's the 50th Monthly Hosting Performance Contest Roundup for March 2020! I've been testing 15 hosts in a non-stop manner the whole month and I'll show you the results below. The interesting observation is that the hosts with the speed below one second are still in the majority. By the way, you can find the latest roundups here and the performance tables and charts here. All monitored … [Read more...]

Million Checks Of SiteGround’s Server Response Time And Speed Revealed

Last year I published a research on SiteGrounds’s performance so that you could see if its Time To First Byte (or Server Response Time) is bad or good compared to other 14 hosts that I have been monitoring. The research included the results of 16.5 mln tests. And now, one year later, after testing 15 shared host non-stop 24/7 during 365 days of the year 2019 I’ve accumulated another set of 16+ … [Read more...]

Hosting Performance Contest – February 2020 Roundup (15 Hosts Tested: Faster Standard)

Here's the 49th Monthly Hosting Performance Contest Roundup for February 2020! I've been testing 15 hosts in a non-stop manner the whole month and I'll show you the results below. The interesting observation is that faster performance tends to become the norm. By the way, you can find the latest roundups here and the performance tables and charts here. All monitored hosts are presented in … [Read more...]

Server Response Time To Estimate Hosting Speed? Don’t. 16.5 Mln Tests In 2019

Intro It’s quite a common mistake to measure hosting speed by checking Server Response Time or Time To First Byte (TTFB). The right way to test hosting speed is measuring Full Page Load Time. And although Server Response Time is connected with hosting speed, it’s absolutely not correct to use TTFB for evaluating hosting speed. In this article I will demonstrate you this. I have collected … [Read more...]

Hosting Performance Contest – January 2020 Roundup (15 Hosts Tested: Unusually Fast)

Here's the 48th Monthly Hosting Performance Contest Roundup for January 2020! I've been testing 15 hosts in a non-stop manner the whole month and I'll show you the results below. It's interesting that this month most hosts showed unusually fast performance. By the way, you can find the latest roundups here and the performance tables and charts here. All monitored hosts are presented in the … [Read more...]

As Full As Possible List of EIG Companies and Brands With Details (Beware EIG Hosting and Newfold Digital!)

Moderators of Wikipedia decided that Endurance International Group (EIG)'s page should NOT contain the list of the brands (including hosting) that EIG owns. So they edited the wiki page and removed the list of EIG hosting companies and other EIG brands. Although the wiki page did not contain the full list of hosting providers owned by Endurance International Group, I've fixed it my way - I've put … [Read more...]