2015 WordPress Website Hosting Survey Results

• Collectively, Uptime (4.38/5) received the highest average scores, while Support (4.03/5) received the lowest average scores.
• On average, respondents are spending about $50//mo on hosting.

1. SiteGround: 5.0
2. WP Engine: 4.75
3. Inmotion: 4.6
4. DreamHost: 4.3
5. Bluehost: 4.0
6. HostGator: 3.8
7. GoDaddy: 3.1

1. SiteGround & WP Engine: 5.0
2. DreamHost & Inmotion: 4.67
3. Bluehost: 4.60
4. GoDaddy: 4.14
5. Hostgator: 3.8

1. SiteGround: 4.75
2. WP Engine: 4.71
3. Inmotion: 4.67
4. DreamHost: 4.3
5. Bluehost: 4.2
6. Hostgator: 3.6
7. GoDaddy: 3.0

1. SiteGround: 4.75
2. Inmotion: 4.67
3. Bluehost: 4.6
4. WP Engine: 4.5
5. DreamHost: 4.0
6. Hostgator: 3.8
7. GoDaddy: 3.43

1. SiteGround: 4.88
2. WP Engine: 4.74
3. Inmotion: 4.67
4. Bluehost: 4.35
5. DreamHost: 4.34
6. Hostgator: 3.75
7. GoDaddy: 3.43

We’d like to take the liberty to share a couple points of interests about these hosts.

• The survey responses did not indicate whether or not their Event Espresso 4 powered site is hosted on GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress platform. We can conclude that anyone using EE4 is hosted on the regular GoDaddy hosting package, because Event Espresso 4 does not work as expected on GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress hosting due to their inability to disable caching for specific pages.
• WP Engine received high marks for support, which was not a surprise to support staff. This is because we’ve found that WP Engine support staff are very responsive whenever a few initial issues arise due to caching. They’ve been very helpful to Event Espresso customers to who request help with configuring specific pages to be excluded from caching.