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  "name": "Liquid Web hosting test results",
  "description": "Uptime, response time, load test and support results for Liquid Web: HostIdea's own monitoring windows under tests[], and published third-party measurements under thirdParty[], each attributed to its source.",
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  "creator": {
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    "name": "HostIdea",
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  "url": "https://hostidea.com/reviews/liquidweb",
  "dateModified": "2026-10-14",
  "host": {
    "id": "liquidweb",
    "name": "Liquid Web",
    "website": "https://www.liquidweb.com/"
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  "overallScore": 7.7,
  "scores": {
    "performance": 7.5,
    "uptime": 8,
    "support": 8,
    "features": 8.5,
    "value": 7,
    "easeOfUse": 7.5
  },
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  "pricing": {
    "lastVerified": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
    "source": "https://www.liquidweb.com/wordpress-hosting/managed-wordpress/"
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      "name": "Essentials WordPress",
      "type": "managed-wordpress",
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        "currency": "USD"
      },
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        "amount": 9,
        "currency": "USD"
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      "term": "monthly",
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      "websites": 1,
      "storageGb": 15,
      "bandwidth": "2 TB a month, shared across the account, with a guidance of 50,000 visitors",
      "freeDomain": false,
      "freeSsl": true,
      "backups": "Daily backups kept 7 days",
      "moneyBackDays": 0,
      "highlights": [
        "Edge CDN powered by Cloudflare, WAF, DDoS protection, Object Cache Pro and Kadence Security Pro included",
        "Automatic WordPress updates, migration tool and migration by a person",
        "No staging on this tier",
        "Annual billing saves 10 percent per the page's toggle"
      ],
      "mailboxes": "Email hosting listed as included by HostingStep; not on the plan card",
      "terms": [
        {
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    {
      "id": "pro-wordpress",
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        "amount": 19,
        "currency": "USD"
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      "bandwidth": "2 TB a month, shared across the account, with a guidance of 50,000 visitors",
      "freeDomain": false,
      "freeSsl": true,
      "backups": "Daily backups kept 14 days",
      "moneyBackDays": 0,
      "highlights": [
        "Everything in Essentials plus staging sites and visual comparison of updates",
        "Edge CDN, WAF, DDoS protection, Object Cache Pro and Kadence Security Pro included",
        "Automatic WordPress updates, migration tool and migration by a person",
        "Annual billing saves 10 percent per the page's toggle"
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      "mailboxes": "Email hosting listed as included by HostingStep; not on the plan card",
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            "amount": 19,
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        }
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    {
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        "amount": 29,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
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        "amount": 29,
        "currency": "USD"
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      "bandwidth": "2 TB a month, shared across the account, with a guidance of 50,000 visitors",
      "freeDomain": false,
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      "backups": "Daily backups kept 30 days",
      "moneyBackDays": 0,
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        "Everything in Pro plus stencils and virtual patching with Patchstack",
        "Edge CDN, WAF, DDoS protection, Object Cache Pro and Kadence Security Pro included",
        "Staging sites and visual comparison of updates",
        "Annual billing saves 10 percent per the page's toggle"
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          "months": 1,
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    {
      "publication": "HostingStep",
      "author": "Mohan Raj",
      "url": "https://hostingstep.com/hosting-reviews/liquid-web/",
      "title": "HostingStep, Liquid Web review",
      "kind": "independent",
      "updated": "2026-07-22T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "plan": "Spark Thrive (managed WordPress, $10 a month as the page prices it)",
      "tool": "Pingdom",
      "checkIntervalSeconds": 60,
      "uptime": [
        {
          "pct": 99.96,
          "windowDays": 243,
          "window": "1 October 2025 to 31 May 2026",
          "outages": 3
        },
        {
          "pct": 99.99,
          "windowDays": 365,
          "window": "calendar year 2025",
          "outages": 5
        }
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      "responseMs": 496,
      "responseNote": "average TTFB from US locations over the eight-month window; 413 ms in 2022, 497 ms over 2025",
      "loadTest": {
        "concurrentUsers": 100,
        "avgResponseMs": 60,
        "errorRatePct": 0
      },
      "notes": "Monitored since 2021 with the demo hostname and Pingdom check ID published. 1 hour 56 minutes of downtime in the window; 63 minutes in 2025, down from 406 minutes in 2021. Cached global TTFB 349 ms across 40 locations; WPBench hardware 7.2. Server location not stated."
    },
    {
      "publication": "Cybernews",
      "author": "Meda Arce",
      "url": "https://cybernews.com/best-web-hosting/liquid-web-review/",
      "title": "Cybernews, Liquid Web review",
      "kind": "independent",
      "updated": "2026-01-12T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "plan": "Standard VPS plan, a bare server without optimisations",
      "location": "Amsterdam, Netherlands",
      "uptime": [
        {
          "pct": 100,
          "windowDays": 14,
          "window": "two weeks of monitoring",
          "outages": 0
        }
      ],
      "responseMs": 83.77,
      "responseNote": "average response during the window",
      "loadTest": {
        "concurrentUsers": 50,
        "p95Ms": 506,
        "errorRatePct": 0,
        "requests": 4733
      },
      "lcpMs": 1541,
      "notes": "A VPS rather than a WordPress plan, with no caching or CDN configured. The five-minute stress test averaged 15 requests a second, peaking at 34."
    },
    {
      "publication": "WPBeginner",
      "url": "https://www.wpbeginner.com/hosting/liquid-web/",
      "title": "WPBeginner, Liquid Web review",
      "kind": "independent",
      "updated": "2025-05-26T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "uptime": [
        {
          "pct": 100,
          "window": "the test period (length not stated)",
          "outages": 0
        }
      ],
      "loadTest": {
        "concurrentUsers": 50,
        "tool": "k6"
      },
      "lcpMs": 702,
      "notes": "GTmetrix full load 1.7 s. PageSpeedPlus response times described as under 600 ms in the US and Europe without a figure. The k6 run is described as smooth without a response figure. Plan, data center and window not stated. By the editorial staff."
    },
    {
      "publication": "HostScore",
      "url": "https://hostscore.net/review/liquidweb/",
      "title": "HostScore, Liquid Web review",
      "kind": "aggregate",
      "updated": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "uptime": [],
      "notes": "Overall HostScore 79.5 percent. Describes reliable speed and uptime without publishing figures. Dates the founding to 1997 by Matthew Hill in Lansing. User submissions on the page: 57 positive, 13 negative."
    }
  ],
  "supportTests": [],
  "changelog": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "change": "First version built from verified sources: the managed WordPress page (Essentials, Pro and Elite at one site and 50,000 visitors with the monthly price as the page renders it in a browser, the backup retention per tier, the inclusions and the annual toggle's 10 percent saving), the managed VPS page (four fully managed sizes with vCPU, RAM, SSD and bandwidth, control panel choices, the 99.9 percent server uptime line), the terms of service effective 8 May 2024 (non-refundable fees, 30 days' notice, early termination charges, price increases on notice), the SLA page (100 percent network uptime, hardware replacement, credit claims), the about page (180,000 customers, 22 data centers across the group) and the data centers page (Lansing, Phoenix, Ashburn, Amsterdam). The 1997 founding date is HostScore's account, which the review says. Published measurements by HostingStep (eight-month window and yearly history since 2021), Cybernews (January 2026, a VPS) and WPBeginner (May 2025) are stored in thirdParty[]; HostScore is kept as an aggregate; no Kripesh Adwani review exists. No HostIdea monitoring window is open, so the scores are provisional: uptime rests on HostingStep's window and yearly history plus two short windows, performance on a 496 ms US TTFB against strong load handling and a 349 ms global figure, support on three channels and reviewer accounts, features on the CDN, WAF, caching, backups and migration included at $9, value on the entry price against non-refundable terms and the step up to $72 VPS plans.",
      "source": "https://www.liquidweb.com/wordpress-hosting/managed-wordpress/"
    }
  ]
}