ScalaHosting
Company Profile & Results
Disclaimer: Descriptions are provided by the company.
Historical Performance Summary
| Year | <$25 | $25-50 | $51-100 | $101-200 | $201-500 | Enterprise ($500+) | Woo Commerce |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |
2026 WordPress Results
$25-50/Month Summary
ScalaHosting had a clean uptime year (above 99.9% on all three monitors), an A+ SSL, and the third fastest PHP Bench. Unfortunately the LoadStorm test slowed down starting around 350 VUsers with errors arriving around 600 VUsers (2,896 errors). The Static test averaged 8.9 seconds with no static cache configured by default — that's not a hardware story, it's an origin-load story. Both test results keep ScalaHosting out of award contention this year.
LoadStorm
Load Storm is designed to simulate real users visiting the site, logging in and browsing. It tests uncached performance.
K6
K6 is designed to test cached performance by repeatedly requesting the homepage.
GTmetrix
GTmetrix loads the homepage and records how long it takes from 12 different locations around the world. (We switched from WebPageTest to GTmetrix in 2026.)
Uptime
Uptime is monitored by three sources: HetrixTools and StatusCake as third-party services, plus a self-hosted UptimeKuma instance for cross-reference in case of major discrepancy between the third-party monitors.
WPPerformanceTester
WPPerformanceTester performs two benchmarks. One is a WordPress (WP Bench) and the other a PHP benchmark. WP Bench measures how many WP queries per second and higher tends to be better (varies considerably by architecture). PHP Bench performs a lot of computational and some database operations which are measured in seconds to complete. Lower PHP Bench is better. WP Bench is red in the chart, PHP Bench is blue.
WPBenchmark
WPBenchmark is a hosting performance benchmark that produces a single composite score per server. Higher is better.
| Company | WPBenchmark Score |
|---|---|
| ScalaHosting 2026 50 | 8.2 |
SSL
The tool is available at https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/
| Company | Qualsys SSL Grade |
|---|---|
| ScalaHosting 2026 50 | A+ |
