We ranked 15 web hosts by real-world reliability over the last 90 days, using 285 status page incidents and our own around-the-clock uptime checks. A small business website usually runs on a shared or managed hosting plan, so when the host's servers, network or data center fail, the site, contact forms, online store and often business email go offline together. Downtime costs lost enquiries and orders, and repeated outages can hurt search rankings. Hosts also run the control panels used for backups, DNS and SSL renewals, which customers depend on to fix problems quickly.
Most reliable web host:Namecheap Hosting (score 89.2/100). Highest uptime: Namecheap Hosting (100%). Fewest incidents: Namecheap Hosting (1 in 90 days). Fastest to resolve: GoDaddy Web Hosting (avg 14m).
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Vendor
Score
Uptime (90d)
Incidents
Avg resolve
Transparency
Status now
1
Namecheap HostingNamecheap Hosting is the shared, WordPress (EasyWP), VPS and dedicated hosting sold by domain registrar Namecheap.Visit site ↗
89.2
100%
1
—
100/100
Operational
2
FlywheelFlywheel is a managed WordPress hosting service for designers and agencies, owned by WP Engine.Visit site ↗
88.4
100%
2
—
100/100
Operational
3
PressablePressable is a managed WordPress hosting service owned by Automattic.Visit site ↗
86.9
100%
3 (1 major)
—
100/100
Operational
4
DreamHostDreamHost is a Los Angeles-based web hosting company offering shared, WordPress, VPS and dedicated hosting.Visit site ↗
82.1
100%
9 (3 major)
—
100/100
Operational
5
GoDaddy Web HostingGoDaddy Web Hosting covers the cPanel web hosting, Managed WordPress and VPS hosting plans sold by GoDaddy, the Tempe, Arizona-based domain registrar.Visit site ↗
76.5
99.49%
5
14m
100/100
Degraded
6
NexcessNexcess is a managed WordPress and WooCommerce hosting brand of Liquid Web.Visit site ↗
55.4
99.19%
19 (1 major)
11h 39m
100/100
Operational
7
KinstaKinsta is a managed WordPress and application hosting provider that runs customer sites on Google Cloud.Visit site ↗
48.0
98.63%
13 (6 major)
12h 37m
100/100
Operational
8
HostingerHostinger is a web hosting company headquartered in Lithuania that offers shared, WordPress, cloud and VPS hosting plus a website builder.Visit site ↗
33.8
96.37%
181 (9 major)
4h 36m
100/100
Operational
9
CloudwaysCloudways is a managed cloud hosting platform owned by DigitalOcean that runs customer servers on DigitalOcean, Vultr, AWS and Google Cloud.Visit site ↗
32.0
93.39%
12 (5 major)
1d 3h
100/100
Operational
10
Liquid WebLiquid Web is a Lansing, Michigan-based provider of managed VPS, dedicated, cloud and WordPress hosting.Visit site ↗
31.8
94.03%
20 (4 major)
1d
100/100
Operational
11
WP EngineWP Engine is a managed WordPress hosting company based in Austin, Texas.Visit site ↗
30.5
95.37%
20 (5 major)
21h 1m
100/100
Operational
Web Hosting reliability at a glance
Across the 11 ranked web hosts, average 90-day uptime is 97.86%. Reliability scores range from 89.2 (Namecheap Hosting) to 30.5 (WP Engine).
Together they published 285 incidents in the last 90 days, 34 of them partial or major outages.
The typical vendor takes 12h 37m to resolve an incident. GoDaddy Web Hosting is fastest, at 14m on average.
Hostinger reported the most incidents (181 in 90 days).
What to check before you choose a web host
Check how often the host reports problems with the servers and data centers your site would run on, not just its marketing site or support chat.
Ask whether daily backups are stored off the server and how quickly you can restore a site yourself when something breaks.
Look at how long incidents last and whether updates were posted promptly. A short outage with clear updates is easier to manage than a long silence.
Keep your domain DNS and business email somewhere you can change quickly, so a hosting outage doesn't take everything down at once.
90-day uptime history
Each bar is one day. Hover a bar for that day's uptime and incidents.
These vendors join the ranking once we have enough evidence: at least 14 days of data, and for vendors with a quiet status page (silent for a year, or for 90 days while their competitors report several incidents), 30 days of our own independent monitoring.
WordPress.com · quiet status page, awaiting our own monitoring
Based on the last 90 days of data, Namecheap Hosting is the most reliable web host we track, with a reliability score of 89.2/100 and 100% uptime.
How do you measure web host reliability?
We poll each vendor's public status page every few minutes, record every incident, and run our own uptime checks against each vendor's login and customer-facing pages. Uptime (40%), incident frequency (20%), average time to resolve (20%) and transparency (20%) combine into one score out of 100.
How often are these rankings updated?
Continuously. Status pages and uptime checks run every five minutes and scores are recalculated several times an hour.
Can vendors pay to rank higher?
No. Sponsored placements are clearly labelled, shown separately from the rankings and never change a vendor's score.