Pressable vs NameHero
Pressable and NameHero 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 host since 2015 with NVMe, LiteSpeed and stated cores and RAM: cheap for three years, four times the price after
Pressable wins 5 of the six sub-scores and comes out ahead overall (7.7 vs 7.3).
How do the scores compare?
Pressable leads on 5 sub-scores, NameHero on 1. Higher is better.
Which one is faster and more reliable?
Which one costs less?
On renewal, NameHero is cheaper ($11.64/mo vs $20.83/mo). Intro prices need the listed term.
What does each include?
| Pressable | NameHero | |
|---|---|---|
| Free domain | No | Turbo Cloud and Business Cloud on a 24 or 36-month term; not on Starter or Plus |
| Free SSL | Included; a Jetpack Security licence comes with every plan | Free and auto-renewing SSL on every plan |
| Backups | Hourly database and daily full backups, restorable from the site dashboard, per the support policy | Nightly and weekly backups listed in the comparison table; HeroVault offsite backups with 30 days of retention cost $6.99 a month in the cart |
| Free migration | Unlimited site migrations on every plan | Complimentary migrations by the Level III team |
| Free CDN | Built-in edge cache and global CDN across more than 24 edge locations | QUIC.cloud CDN listed in the comparison table |
| Caching | Edge cache, OPcache, page cache and query cache | LiteSpeed web server with LiteSpeed Cache; the Turbo tier on the two upper plans |
| Staging | One staging and one sandbox site per WordPress install on every Signature plan | No |
| No | Unlimited accounts; mailbox quota 1 GB on Starter, 2 GB on Plus, unlimited above; 50 or 350 emails an hour | |
| 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 | US (Lenexa, Kansas), London and Canada on the plan cards; the comparison table lists US for every plan |
| 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 | No |
| 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 | Security Shield on every plan; HeroGuard with premium SSL, malware scanning and monitoring costs $9.99 a month in the cart |
| Phone support | No | 1-855-984-6263, 9 AM to 5 PM Central per the about page; chat and tickets around the clock |
| Guaranteed resources | Not stated | Cores and RAM printed per plan, 1 and 1 GB up to 4 and 4 GB, on a partitioned cloud environment |
| SSH | Not stated | Jailed SSH access listed in the comparison table |