Adventures in Scalable WordPress Hosting: Part 1

If you follow the Kernl Blog you’ll know that recently I’ve been writing about load testing different managed WordPress cloud providers. Half of the reason for doing this is to shake out any bugs in Kernl’s WordPress load testing platform and the other half is to learn whats out there in terms of managed WordPress… Continue reading Adventures in Scalable WordPress Hosting: Part 1

Load Testing the ChemiCloud Managed WordPress Hosting Service

At the beginning of December Kernl launched a closed beta for our WordPress Load Testing service. As part of the bug shakedown we’ve been spending some time load testing different managed WordPress hosting services. Some of previous tests include WordPress.com, CloudWays, and GoDaddy. For this test, we turned our sights on ChemiCloud. How do we judge… Continue reading Load Testing the ChemiCloud Managed WordPress Hosting Service

Load Testing the WordPress.com Managed WordPress Service

This December Kernl launched it’s new WordPress Load Testing service. As part of the bug shakedown we decided to load test as many managed WordPress providers as we could. In this test, we turn our sights to WordPress.com. How do we judge the platform? For this series of blog posts we judge the platform via… Continue reading Load Testing the WordPress.com Managed WordPress Service

Load Testing the CloudWays Managed WordPress Service

At the beginning of December Kernl launched the closed beta of it’s WordPress load testing service. As a test to shake out any bugs we’ve decided to run a blog series load testing managed WordPress services. Today we’re going to talk about the CloudWays managed WordPress service. In particular, CloudWays deployed to Vultr. How is… Continue reading Load Testing the CloudWays Managed WordPress Service

Load Testing GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress Service

Earlier this December Kernl launched a closed beta of our WordPress load testing service. As part of that beta we’ve decided to run a series of load tests against some of the common managed WordPress hosting services. GoDaddy was chosen as our first load test target for a few different reasons: GoDaddy has been around… Continue reading Load Testing GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress Service