The closer the server is to your visitors, the less they wait. How we pick the city for every test. Every number on this blog comes from a server we pay for and test ourselves: the setup, the speed from nine regions, the backups, the restores and the bill.

Point the domain, press one button, and the padlock appears. Here is what that looks like, step by step. Every number on this blog comes from a server we pay for and test ourselves: the setup, the speed from nine regions, the backups, the restores and the bill.

We sent a wave of visitors at a small server and watched the cache, the CPU and the response time. Every number on this blog comes from a server we pay for and test ourselves: the setup, the speed from nine regions, the backups, the restores and the bill.

A staging copy lets you try a new plugin or theme first. We made one and kept checking the live site the whole time. Every number on this blog comes from a server we pay for and test ourselves: the setup, the speed from nine regions, the backups, the restores and the bill.

A backup is only worth something if the restore works. We timed both, on a live site, with visitors still arriving. Every number on this blog comes from a server we pay for and test ourselves: the setup, the speed from nine regions, the backups, the restores and the bill.

We launched the smallest High Frequency server and measured how quickly it answers from New York, London, Mumbai and six more cities. Every number on this blog comes from a server we pay for and test ourselves: the setup, the speed from nine regions, the backups, the restores and the bill.