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New data has mentioned Kinsta (opens in new tab)Liquid Web (opens in new tab)and WP Engine (opens in new tab) as the most trusted WordPress hosting providers based on a study that analyzed historical data on all downtime events for each service.
StatusGator (opens in new tab)data monitoring tool found that WordPress hosting on average (opens in new tab) providers have 11 hours and six minutes of downtime per year.
This comes as WordPress, the open-source content management system (CMS (opens in new tab)), is gearing up to celebrate its 20th anniversary this year.
20 years of WordPress
WordPress was released on May 27, 2003 by founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little as a fork of b2/cafelog.
In a tweet (opens in new tab) posted on Jan 25, 2023, WordPress co-founder Mike Little said, “20 years ago today I commented on Matt’s blog and started the project that became WordPress. Now WordPress controls more than 43% of the most popular domains. It was created by a global community of thousands of contributors and millions of users.”
Matt Mullenweg says he was so lucky Mike left that comment, describing that moment in 2003 as “the butterfly effect.”
The official anniversary date for WordPress launch is May 27, 2023, and the platform is planning a number of events during the first of the year to celebrate.
In its survey of WordPress services, StatusGator mentioned Flywheel (opens in new tab)Cloud roads (opens in new tab)Hostinger (opens in new tab) and DreamHost (opens in new tab) in the top seven most reliable WordPress hosts.
Based on the results, Liquid Web has the fewest hosting-related downtimes at 0.6 per year, while Hostinger has the most at 36.0 per year, and some providers, such as GoDaddy (opens in new tab)Anchor Host and HostPress were found not to disclose their downtimes.
To produce the findings, StatusGator divided certain downtime events into critical and non-critical sections with shared hosting (opens in new tab)VPS (opens in new tab)data center, dedicated servers (opens in new tab) and DNS (opens in new tab) fall into the category of critical hosting-related downtime.
Observed non-critical downtime includes email, help centers, and live chat (opens in new tab) support, cPanel, as well as billing and subscription services.
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