WordPress Hosting – Does Price Give Better Performance?

Every year I publish WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks. But after publishing, I rarely get a chance to spend time really digging into the data. I’ve begun testing for 2019 WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks but before I finish them, I wanted to at least publish some analysis from 2018 that explores a fundamentally interesting question: Does Price Give Better Performance?
The load testing results show that the more expensive WordPress hosting plans can handle a lot of traffic. But load testing isn’t the only metric measured during the tests; what about the other performance related measurements – how do they correlate with price?
A few notes to help understand the pricing structures. There are six price tiers I use for WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks: <25, 25-50, 51-100, 101-200, 201-500 and Enterprise (500+). This means all the plans in the price bracket cost somewhere in the specified range on monthly basis (in US dollars).
The uptime average and median percentages organized by price range. All raw data is available in the original blog posts. Since it’s a bit hard to see I’ll include the table used to generate this chart as well here:
Price Tier ($/month)
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/18190/wordpress-hosting-does-price-give-better-performance

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