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Managed WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks

by andreyvit on 3/26/14, 3:12 PM with 27 comments

  • by timdorr on 3/26/14, 4:10 PM

    Oh hey, it's my old company ASO on there! I haven't followed Doug and the team much since I sold it, but good to know it's still a contender and the support levels are still as high quality as I left it.

    Did you have a chance to test on one of their business accounts? http://asmallorange.com/hosting/business/ It's like a standard shared account, but not oversold and therefore able to better scale.

  • by josephjrobison on 3/26/14, 4:24 PM

    Good to see SiteGround keeps up, I've found their offering very compelling and signed up for them. Support does seem good so far, and I think they can compete on cost because they're mostly based out of Bulgaria from what I can tell. Their highest WordPress plan tops out at $15...so that's half of WP Engine's starting plan.
  • by frade33 on 3/26/14, 7:10 PM

    I am amazed noone had mentined Dreampress $20/month (includes two VPS files + mysql and uses varinsh cache) which they claim is equal to $500 wordpress.com VIP. I am using it, but I never had the privilege so far to hit more than 100 concurrent users.
  • by mikeytown2 on 3/26/14, 3:52 PM

    I'm curious how pantheon would have done in this test as it is the new kid on the block. https://www.getpantheon.com/wordpress
  • by bhartzer on 3/26/14, 5:05 PM

    I'd like to see this test run again... but with a lot more WP hosts than were originally included in the test.
  • by bsirkia on 3/26/14, 3:55 PM

    It totally blows my mind that Wordpress powers (or claims to power) 19% of the web. I had never used it until this year (after using other CMSs like SquareSpace and Statamic) and wanted to blow my brains out. I really wonder how the CMS landscape will look in five years.