HiValidity REVIEWS AND EXPERT OPINION
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We have recently reviewed one of the most prominent managed WordPress host over 90 days, and share the results on this review.
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About HiValidity Hosting
HiValidity was founded in 2017 by a small team of WordPress developers and system admins. They have offices in Dehradun, Jalpaiguri and started offering hosting to the public in early 2018. Shortly, they become a choice for self-hosted WordPress users who care about fast loading websites, high-end security and award-winning help.
HiValidity’s rich features, high performance and excellent support is really what set them apart from other managed WordPress hosting companies out there.
HiValidity Features
Below are some of the primary features that make HiValidity different from the other WordPress hosting companies.
Built on Google Cloud Platform
HiValidity is one of the first managed WordPress host, to be powered exclusively by the Google Cloud. Their infrastructure is maintained by Certified Google Cloud Architects & WordPress developers.
Their infrastructure features the Compute-Optimized VMs (C2) which offer a greater than 40% performance improvement compared to other Google Cloud VMs.
HiValidity uses CloudLinux account isolation technology, so each account will be isolated from another account. Got a surge of traffic? No problem, they use Google Cloud Load Balancer which automatically distributes the overload to other VMs.
By adopting Google Cloud Infrastructure, HiValidity offering premium tier network (not standard) which ensures low latency all over the planet.
HiValidity using best architecture for WordPress hosting which includes, but not limited to:
All websites hosted with EverCloud Plus and EverCloud Pro Plan includes the ability to use HiValidity’s application performance monitoring (PHP X-Ray). Which was developed specifically to troubleshoot performance issues in PHP-based web sites, such as: Slow plugins, Slow database queries, Slow functions, Slow external calls.
I do not know of any other top web hosting company offering this.
Automatic Server-Side Cache
HiValidity uses LSCache to provide the fastest possible loading speed for web pages hosted on their platform. LiteSpeed Cache plugin will be automatically installed when you install WordPress.
Unlike other providers, they offer object caching such as Memcached, OPcache and Redis absolutely free with all plans. No upsell, no premium add-on required!
Managed Server & Website Security
HiValidity’s managed security provides a worry-free secure website environment, where their security suites automatically patch plugin, theme and other software vulnerabilities before it’s publicly well-known. Below are some highlighted security sets:
HiValidity Account Management Dashboard
When it comes to managing your account, HiValidity has an easy to navigate dashboard, and allows you to upgrade your current plan, pay hosting bills, create support tickets, managing email accounts, databases, accessing website files etc.
You can see very simple and easy to use Quick Shortcuts which includes Email Accounts, File Manager, Backups, MySQL Database and Awstats without logging into cPanel.
Installing WordPress
Once you’ve signed up with HiValidity, you can log in to the cPanel control panel and create a WordPress website. The process is very easy, and in just a few clicks you’ll have a brand new WordPress installation setup and ready to go.
- Login to HiValidity Dashboard
- Click on Manage Services
- Softaculous Auto Install
- Then click on the “Install” button, a configuration page will open and will ask for some basic details. Once you fill-up the details, you are good to go with Installation.
Once you’ve logged in to your HiValidity account dashboard, you can also contact the support staff via support tickets, in our case they replied within 10 minutes on every support ticket.
HiValidity Hosting Performance
To check the performance of HiValidity Hosting, we have run some experiments with our website hosted on their platform. We’ve covered loading speed, TTFB and uptime performance. The results are based on real-time tests with some open-source tools mentioned in this review.
HiValidity Loading Time Test Results
To receive the wide range of performance results with different types of websites; we have tested the speed of the site with a lightweight theme installed, as well as a site using a feature-rich multipurpose theme. The loading times were recorded using the GTmatrix and Google PageSpeed Insights.
LightWeight Theme Results
For lightweight theme, we have used the default Twenty Twenty-One WordPress theme which comes with WordPress installation. To give you an idea of what sort of loading times you might experience using this theme or a similar theme. Here are the results recorded by GTmatrix and Google PageSpeed Insights:
According to PageSpeed Insights, the First Contentful Paint is 0.3 seconds. It’s clear from the results that the test site using the lightweight Twenty Twenty-One theme loaded very quickly.
Now let’s see how it performs with a heavyweight theme.
Multi Purpose Theme
Astra, one of the most popular multi purpose WordPress themes available today. This theme comes with many widgets & features.
We installed Astra on our WordPress site and imported one of its pre-built website demos (Online Health Coach). As before, the load times were recorded by GTmatrix and Google PageSpeed Insights, but this time, as the Astra theme was being used, the file size of the page being tested was much larger.
The Astra Online Health Coach full demo website First Contentful Paint time is 0.7 seconds as the file size was much larger than the Twenty Twenty-One theme.
HiValidity are definitely fast web hosts according to our results. As you can see from the test results, your choice of theme will determine how fast your site actually loads - with the lightweight Twenty Twenty-One theme loading much faster than the feature-rich Astra theme.
For testing purpose, the HiValidity data center in Oregon was selected, along with the nearest GTmatrix server location, which was in San Antonio (Texas). These two data center locations are partially close to each other, therefore online users accessing your website from further away may face longer page loading times.
No caching technology or optimization plugin has been used during the tests.
So, you may be able to improve the speed of your WordPress website with image and database optimization, compressing CSS, JavaScript and carrying out other tasks to deliver faster loading times.
Time to First Byte Results
Time to first byte (in short - TTFB) is a measurement used as an indication of the responsiveness of a web server or other network resource. TTFB measures the time from the site visitor or client making an HTTP request to the first byte of the web page being received by the client's web browser. For this test, we have used the GeekFlare TTFB checker tool. The results are below:
The tool recorded an average TTFB of 120 milliseconds. From London it’s 0.256, from New York it’s 0.120 (nearest to the origin server), and from India it’s 0.406. HiValidity has a better TTFB than many top hosting companies out there.
HiValidity Uptime Results
HiValidity has a 99.99% uptime guarantee, with money off your bill if the uptime drops below this level. However, during our tests, Uptime Robot recorded an impressive uptime of 100% over a 90-day period.
We did not experience any downtime till now with our test website. Which is definitely a good sign for selecting a web host.
Now, let’s take a look at how much you have to pay to host your website with HiValidity.
HiValidity Hosting Pricing Details
HiValidity has three plans, EverCloud, EverCloud Plus and EverCloud Pro. Here are their key details:
Paying for a longer billing cycle gets you maximum benefits in case of promotional offers, and all plans include a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate, as well as CDN access. There’s also a 45-day money-back guarantee (highest in the industry) on all plans, so you can try HiValidity without any risk.
HiValidity Shared Hosting Plans
| Space/Bandwidth | Websites | Cost | |
|---|---|---|---|
| EverCloud | 15GB/Unlimited | 1 | $2.99/Mo. |
| EverCloud Plus | 25GB/Unlimited | Unlimited | $4.49/Mo. |
| EverCloud Pro | 35GB/Unlimited | Unlimited | $ 5.99/Mo. |
Every hosting plan has access to the similar infrastructure, powered by the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This implies upgrading to higher end package just increases the number of WordPress installations permitted, and the monthly visits and storage space allowances.
Support by WordPress Developers
Although, we did not require to contact the support, but for this review purpose, we have made some corruptions with our website hosted on their server, and you can see below the quality of support which we have received from their WordPress developers.
What we like about their customer support team is their dedication to finding a resolution. Instead of guessing and assuming, the kinds of suggestions and solutions we receive are top-notch and are obviously from WordPress experts who eat and drink codes in daily manner.
Conclusion
As you can see from our experiments, HiValidity offers fast & secure managed WordPress hosting with impressive levels of uptime, speed and support.
We can say it’s a complete value for the money. With HiValidity Hosting, you never have to worry about website downtime or other hosting related technical issues.
You also get access to some genuinely worthwhile features, such as automatic website backups, plugin performance checker and an easy-to-use staging environment.
So, if you’re looking for a faster and more reliable host for your WordPress website, or if you want to launch your new site on managed WordPress hosting, then HiValidity comes into highly recommended web host.
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