Thread by @natmiletic

I played around with different hosting options for my WordPress website to measure performance

I compared ionos, siteground, and pantheon (a few of my recommended providers)

Here is what I found 👇

All of the options included a caching plugin, perfmatters, and a CDN (except for siteground, I will explain why)

On ionos and siteground I used W3 cache and on pantheon I used autoptimize because W3 doesn't work on pantheon

First up ionos -> my current provider

W3 cache, perfmatters and cloudflare installed

Loads pretty quickly (1.3s) but TTFB is slow

Siteground was up next

W3 cache, perfmatters, no CDN because I couldn't set up a CDN with a temporary domain

I tried sitegrounds optimizer with caching but W3 gave me better results

Decent results, faster TTFB but slower load time due to lack of CDN. Fully loaded in 1.6s

Pantheon

Autoptimize, perfmatters, and pantheon CDN

Fastest option with super fast TTFB and load times. Fully loaded in 0.7s 🤩

I will also install this on AWS and Kinsta to compare and post the results in the next few days

Kinsta

Autoptimize, perfmatters, but no SSL (unable to set up with a temp domain)

The content is being served over HTTP1 which is hurting performance

Impressive results (1.4s fully loaded) and 0.15s TTFB

Could be tuned more for even better performance 🤩

By the way, I am doing all these migrations using Duplicator Pro by @snapcreek

Works flawlessly every time and it has never let me down

Pantheon is the only exception, I used their built-in website migration tool

Another very impressive result from the nice folks at @TFWPHosting

They definitely are one of the fastest

LiteSpeed Cache, perfmatters, and CDN

Fully loaded in 0.9s and a 0.08s TTFB 🤩

These guys went above and beyond to set up my site and even tune my settings

Updated result from the awesome team at @TFWPHosting

Definitely the fastest with a blazing 0.7s load time 🔥

Give these guys a try if you are looking for a blazing fast WP host

These guys provide a white-glove service! Very impressive