I can’t even count the number of WordPress hosts I’ve used, but when it comes to the host with the fastest speed (at the same time, the price does not exceed $10 per month), Hostinger ranks second, and no host dares to rank first.
Of course, in addition to Hostinger, there are many hosts with good speed, which I will cover in this article. Let’s answer a question first: Which are the fastest WordPress hosts?
Of course, as long as you are willing to spend money, it is not surprising that the speed is fast, but if you take into account both cost performance and speed, in my mind, the ranking list of the host should be like this:
Let me explain in advance, WPengine and Kinsra are super fast and can compete head-on with Hostinger, but why didn’t I rank them first?
Because they are too expensive… Although the most expensive is just that, 3,000 yuan a year tops the sky, but compared with other hosts, they are not cost-effective.
So in this article, I will make the following horizontal comparison around 3 hosts plus a BlueHost that complements the peers:
speed comparison
Speed has too much impact on the website, and it also has an impact on SEO. If the website does not open quickly, it is useless to say anything.
If you have installed LuckyOrange (this article introduces the detailed usage of LuckyOrange), you will observe that after most customers arrive at your website, if the main part of the page cannot be loaded in about 4 seconds, he directly just walked away.
Therefore, a faster website speed means fewer customers who come to our website will be lost, especially if we are advertising, any method that can reduce customers leaving the website is equivalent to saving real money.
So it is very important to spend some thought on speed optimization.
Hostinger speed
For the sake of fairness, all hosts use the same page for speed testing in Gtmerix, such as the page above, and it should be noted that we are not a score party, and no matter how high the score is, it doesn’t mean anything to us. I once optimized the two scores to full marks. But it still takes more than 5 seconds to load the website.
This kind of “high score and low energy” website is not the result we want, so when measuring speed in Gtmetrix, we only need to pay attention to the speed at which the page loads.
As can be seen from the figure above, the opening speed of Hostinger’s website is 2.0s. In fact, if you enable the LiteSpeed cache plug-in that comes with the website, the opening speed can be even faster, and it can even be squeezed to within 1s, because they use the most aggressive LS technology.
All in all, it’s almost over. Except for a few websites that are difficult to migrate, most of my websites are now migrated to Hostinger. There is no way, this host is really delicious, cheap and fast.
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Siteground Speed
Siteground was my favorite host last year. I have to sigh that SG has done a good job in optimizing the code of Gtmetrix. Take a look at the screenshot below:
Although the speed is slightly lower than that of Hostinger, the score is really beautiful. I said earlier that you don’t just look at the score when using GT speed test, but it’s also very happy to see such a beautiful score, isn’t it?
The reason why SG is no longer recommended as the first place this year is mainly because its price has increased, and it has increased by a large amount. It used to buy 400 US dollars for three years, but on June 18, 2020, it directly mentioned 700 US dollars for three years, which lost the cost performance .
With this money, it is really better to buy the four-year package of hostinger, and all configurations are worse than SG.
Speed of A2 Hosting
The A2 is really nice, too bad I don’t use it much.
There is nothing to say about the speed of A2, but I have always had a pit in my heart, that is, the company behind A2 is EIG (Endurance International Group). EIG is indeed one of the best host companies in the industry, but this company made it The products always give me a feeling of not being distracted…
Of course, this is not my personal opinion. Many people complain that EIG has been monopolized for too long and forget their own name, which makes companies such as Hostinger and Siteground emerge suddenly.
All space products under EIG are as follows:
Unless there is another product of the level of A2 Hosting that can make my heart move again, I will not buy anything from them.
Bluehost speed
The reason why Bluehost is discussed here is that on the one hand, it represents an ordinary host and can set off peers. Otherwise, the loading speed is 2s, 2.1s, and you may not even realize how fast this speed is.
On the other hand, because this host is very popular, 5 or 6 out of 10 people I know use Bluehost, so it is worth discussing.
Bluehost is really great in terms of user experience. After registering the space, there will be a task process, so that you can make the website step by step.
But it has two disadvantages:
not fast enough
Behind it is EIG…
The first shortcoming is fatal. Bluehost’s speed was actually very fast five years ago. At that time, there was no overbooking phenomenon. The website can be opened in about 4 seconds, which is already quite impressive.
But not progressing is the original sin. Various technologies in the space have developed to this day, and there have been many technologies that can improve the speed of the website, such as LS, such as Nginx, etc., but Bluehost can “suffocate”… I don’t know what it is thinking (maybe they Do you also have your own difficulties? It is too difficult to upgrade the framework? The ship is too difficult to turn around?)
The second one is my shortcoming here, it’s just my personal prejudice, you can ignore it.
Stability comparison
There will always be a few minutes of convulsions on the mainframe every month. The less time the convulsions are like this, the better. Here I did some research and found that someone has already done all the data research.
Of course, these data are one-time tests and may not be accurate, but they can still be used for reference.
The tool used to measure stability is the famous pingdom.com, the following are the results:
Hostinger’s stability: 99.98%
It takes 7 minutes of convulsions a month, and 99.98% of the time is accessible, which is quite good.
Stability of Siteground:
The stability of SG is the highest, and the downtime is only 4 minutes a month, but SG has a rather painful place, its CPU usage is severely capped, so once I use more complicated plug-ins, such as elementor or eles custom skin, as long as there are more than 2 windows, it will definitely crash, haha… helpless.
Stability of A2 Hosting
Measured by pingdom, the online rate of 99.98% is also very good. It can be said that A2 has represented the last face of EIG as the big fish in the industry.
Bluehost’s stability
Without further ado, look at the pictures for yourself… It’s kind of embarrassing to be honest, should I remove Bluehost from this article entirely? ?
More Thoughts on WordPress Hosting
As a person who has dealt with websites every day for more than 5 years, I think I am more sensitive to space than most people.
Space technology has been improving over the past few years, and dazzling technologies appear every year, so when choosing a space, I will try to choose aggressive growth products instead of middle-aged and elderly products that sit on the mountain of gold and silver. .
In terms of technological innovation, Hostinger and Siteground are very good. The former has introduced the most advanced caching technology. When the PHP7.4 version is released, you can find the option in the background to upgrade to the latest version of PHP. The latter has a stable number of users. Under the circumstances, it is still risky to transfer the entire space to Google cloud, in order to improve the access speed and stability of the website.
So this kind of innovative products are worth staying together for a longer time. If you want to buy them, I suggest you buy their full discount package. On the one hand, it is because of the discount, and on the other hand, because of the lessons learned by SG, you will know that it is good. Things are always going up in price (stand up).
Whatever, no matter what host you choose in the end, you must have a clear goal: the host is for website speed service. Deng Xiaoping once said that it doesn’t matter whether a cat is black or white, as long as the host can catch mice, it is a good cat. If it affects your customer retention, then build a website boldly.
