Pressable vs FastComet
Pressable and FastComet compared on measured uptime, response time, pricing and features from our own tests. Pressable scores higher overall.
By Jennifer T. · Updated
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Verdict
PressableWins overall
Automattic's managed WordPress host: dedicated PHP workers, four origins, failover, a 100 percent SLA, from $25 a month
cPanel hosting on LiteSpeed with 30 daily offsite backups and 12 locations; small disks, now part of World Host Group
Pressable wins 5 of the six sub-scores and comes out ahead overall (7.7 vs 7.5).
How do the scores compare?
Pressable leads on 5 sub-scores, FastComet on 1. Higher is better.
Which one is faster and more reliable?
Which one costs less?
On renewal, FastComet is cheaper ($9.95/mo vs $20.83/mo). Intro prices need the listed term.
What does each include?
| Pressable | FastComet | |
|---|---|---|
| Free domain | No | No |
| Free SSL | Included; a Jetpack Security licence comes with every plan | Yes |
| Backups | Hourly database and daily full backups, restorable from the site dashboard, per the support policy | Not stated |
| Free migration | Unlimited site migrations on every plan | Website and server migrations by staff |
| Free CDN | Built-in edge cache and global CDN across more than 24 edge locations | Not stated |
| Caching | Edge cache, OPcache, page cache and query cache | Not stated |
| Staging | One staging and one sandbox site per WordPress install on every Signature plan | Not stated |
| No | Not stated | |
| Dedicated resources | 5 dedicated PHP workers (5 vCPUs) per site with 512 MB each and burst capacity; no shared memory pools | Not stated |
| Data center choice | Los Angeles, Dallas, Ashburn or Amsterdam per site at creation, with an account default; a secondary server in another region takes over on failure | Not stated |
| Uptime guarantee | 100 percent network, infrastructure and hardware SLA with a credit of 5 percent of the monthly fee per 30 minutes of downtime, up to the full month | 99.9% website availability excluding maintenance; 10% of the monthly fee credited per hour of downtime, up to 100% |
| Developer tools | SSH and WP-CLI described on the features pages, an API, an MCP server, DupliKits site templates, multisite and headless support | Not stated |
| Security | Jetpack Security, malware monitoring and threat response, Secure Hosting Alliance certification | Not stated |
| Phone support | No | 24/7, +1 855 818 9717 |
| Daily offsite backups | Not stated | Up to 30 daily backups in a separate data center, unlimited full or incremental restores from the web interface |
| Web server | Not stated | LiteSpeed Enterprise with the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress, AMD EPYC CPUs, NVMe storage |
| Malware scanner | Not stated | Yes |
| Node.js and SSH | Not stated | Yes |
| Choice of data center | Not stated | Six locations at shared checkout (Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Singapore, Sydney, Mumbai); 12 locations across all products |
| Resource policy | Not stated | No constant utilisation of 80% of plan resources for an hour; 400 emails per hour; 10 simultaneous IMAP/POP3 connections; slow queries under 1% a day |
| Windows hosting | Not stated | No |