Pressable vs KnownHost
Pressable and KnownHost 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
Managed cPanel hosting since 2006 on LiteSpeed and NVMe with stated cores and RAM, daily backups and three locations
Pressable wins 5 of the six sub-scores and comes out ahead overall (7.7 vs 7.4).
How do the scores compare?
Pressable leads on 5 sub-scores, KnownHost on 1. Higher is better.
Which one is faster and more reliable?
Which one costs less?
On renewal, KnownHost is cheaper ($7.16/mo vs $20.83/mo). Intro prices need the listed term.
What does each include?
| Pressable | KnownHost | |
|---|---|---|
| Free domain | No | No |
| Free SSL | Included; a Jetpack Security licence comes with every plan | Every plan, every domain |
| Backups | Hourly database and daily full backups, restorable from the site dashboard, per the support policy | Daily JetBackup with 2-day and 1-week retention on every plan; extended retention sold as an add-on |
| Free migration | Unlimited site migrations on every plan | Migration team copies files, databases and email and tests the site |
| Free CDN | Built-in edge cache and global CDN across more than 24 edge locations | No |
| Caching | Edge cache, OPcache, page cache and query cache | LiteSpeed Web Server with LSCache on every plan; Redis and Memcached optional |
| Staging | One staging and one sandbox site per WordPress install on every Signature plan | No |
| No | 5, 25 or unlimited mailboxes by plan, with webmail | |
| 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 | Atlanta, Seattle or Amsterdam at checkout |
| 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 | The network page claims a 99.999% availability SLA and 99.99+% uptimes; the terms of service contain no uptime clause or credit schedule |
| 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 | Imunify360 with real-time malware scanning and a web application firewall; Patchman optional on Basic and Standard, included above |
| Phone support | No | A US toll-free number on every page, with 24/7 ticket support |
| SSH, Git and cron | Not stated | Every plan, with current PHP versions |
| Resource limits | Not stated | CloudLinux isolation with 1, 2, 4 and 6 cores and 1, 2, 4 and 6 GB memory limits by plan |
| Windows hosting | Not stated | No |