Rocket.net Review: 100ms Worldwide TTFB For WooCommerce/International Sites + Cloudflare Enterprise (Who I Use)

If the fastest hosting means the fastest TTFB, Rocket.net averages 100ms globally.

They’re specifically good for WooCommerce/dynamic sites since all plans use free Cloudflare Enterprise and 32 CPU cores/128GB RAM – arguably the fastest CDN with plenty of resources. You also get faster tech like NVMe SSDs, Redis (Redis Pro on higher plans), and LiteSpeed’s PHP.

When you compare them to other cloud hosts (Cloudways, SG, Kinsta, WPE), there are 3 main reasons Rocket.net wins: TTFB, more resources, better support (4.9/5 on TrustPilot). I moved from Cloudways Vultr HF in 2011 (and previously SiteGround cloud) and can vouch for this. Ben Gabler (CEO) has a crazy impressive background and he did some great video interviews below.

The main con is price from limited bandwidth. But if you’re using one of the cloud hosts I mentioned, they’re a major upgrade where people have seen a 500% faster TTFB (and 200% – 450% faster LCP). They do unlimited free migrations and $1 the 1st month so you can try them.

 

1. 100ms Global TTFB → Better Core Web Vitals

Rocket.net averages a <100ms global TTFB:

Rocket. Net 100ms global ttfb

KeyCDN measures TTFB in 10 global locations (unlike GTmetrix). You’ll want to test your site 3 times to make sure your resources are cached and served from your CDN’s closest data center.

Keycdn global ttfb

SpeedVitals measures TTFB in 40 global locations. Again, test your site 3 times.

Average ttfb speedvitals

Google says TTFB is 40% of LCP and impacts FCP + other metrics.

Importance of ttfb

Time to first byte lcp

Hosting/CDN are the 2 main ways to optimize TTFB.

Ways to optimize ttfb

So when you upgrade to both a faster host/CDN, it can improve all these:

Omm pagespeed insights

Omm gtmetrix 2023

 

2. Rocket.net’s Specs Are Faster Than [SG, CW, Kinsta, WPE, WPX]

SiteGround Cloud Jump Start Plan Kinsta Starter Plan Cloudways Vultr HF (2GB) Rocket.net Starter Plan
Type Cloud Cloud (shared containers) Cloud Private cloud
Server Apache + Nginx Apache + Nginx Apache + Nginx Apache + Nginx
Nginx reverse proxy $50/mo
CPU cores/RAM 4 cores + 8GB 12 cores + 8GB 1 core + 2GB 32 cores + 128GB
Storage 40GB SATA 10GB SATA 64GB NVMe 10GB NVMe
Object cache Memcached $100/mo Redis Redis Pro Redis (Redis Pro on Business plan)
PHP processor FastCGI FastCGI FPM LiteSpeed
PHP workers Not listed, but common CPU limits 2 No limit No limit
Memory limit Adjustable 256MB Adjustable 1GB
Database MySQL MySQL MariaDB MariaDB
Bandwidth + visits 5TB/mo 25k/mo 2TB/mo 50GB + 250k/mo
CDN $14.99/mo SiteGround CDN Cloudflare APO + firewall rules (read) $5/mo Cloudflare Enterprise Free Cloudflare Enterprise (read)
CDN locations 183 310 310 310
Full page caching
Smart routing Anycast x Argo Argo
Image optimization Limited x Mirage/Polish Mirage/Polish
DNS 2M sites blocked by Google Amazon Route 53 $5/mo DNS Made Easy Cloudflare
Cache plugin SG Optimizer Use FlyingPress Breeze Use FlyingPress
Data centers 10 35 44 Served from Cloudflare’s edge
Control panel Site Tools MyKinsta Custom (difficult) Mission Control
Email hosting x x x
Support C B C A
Migrations $30/site Unlimited free 1 free + $25/site Unlimited free
TrustPilot rating 4.6/5 4.2/5 4.5/5 4.9/5
How it starts costing more High initial price, CPU limits, CDN, price increases, internal incidents PHP workers, add-ons, monthly visits, bandwidth, price increases CPU/RAM limits, CDN, backups, price increases Bandwidth
Incidents TTFB, DNS, CPU issues, controls Facebook groups None Acquired by DigitalOcean, raised prices, removed Vultr/Linode None
Monthly price $100 + CDN $29 when paying yearly + add-ons $26 + CDN $25 when paying yearly

 
Notes:

Out of these hosts, only Rocket.net + Cloudways use NVMe SSDs, Redis Pro, and Cloudflare Enterprise. However, Cloudways’ Cloudflare Enterprise is $5/mo, low cores/RAM often leads to high CPU usage, and they use slower tech like PHP-FPM. Cloudways also has “other problems” after being acquired by DigitalOcean… like a confusing dashboard with too many settings and worse support. Rocket.net has a much easier dashboard, faster tech, and much better support.

Compared to SiteGround Cloud/Kinsta/WPE/WPX:

These use slower SATA SSDs, MySQL, have 16x less RAM, and do incomplete CDN integrations whether it’s so-called “Cloudflare Enterprise” or their own CDN’s lacking features. You’re likely to run into forced upgrades from CPU limits or PHP workers. Both Kinsta and WPE include 10x less monthly visits and get ridiculously expensive when you run into low limits, add-ons, and bandwidth overages. WPX is shared hosting who targets a 400ms international TTFB. All 4 rely on heavy marketing but the performance, TTFB, and technology aren’t reflected in their claims.

 

3. Why Their Cloudflare Enterprise Beats Cloudways/Kinsta’s

Their Cloudflare Enterprise is the closest thing to “true Enterprise” mainly because it has more features. These help with TTFB/routing, image optimization, security, and dynamic requests on WooCommerce. It’s a big reason Rocket.net averages a 100ms global TTFB and makes choosing a data center close to users pretty much irrelevant. It’s also 100% free and works automatically.

This has a lot to do with Ben’s Gabler’s experience as StackPath’s Chief Product Officer.

Most hosts do partial integrations and forget key features like full page caching, smart routing, and image optimization. Or they use their own CDN… usually with a smaller network and less features. Cloudflare’s network has 310+ PoPs with speeds of 228 Tbps (almost 3x BunnyCDN’s).

RocketCDN (WP Rocket) FlyingCDN (FlyingPress) SiteGround CDN Cloudways Cloudflare Enterprise Rocket.net Cloudflare Enterprise
CDN BunnyCDN BunnyCDN Google Cloud Cloudflare Cloudflare
Speed (Tbps) 80 80 Not listed 228 228
Locations 114 114 183 310 310
Full page cache x x APO APO
Smart routing SmartEdge SmartEdge Anycast Argo Argo
Priority routing x x x
Load balancing x
Image optimization x Bunny Optimizer Very limited Mirage/Polish Mirage/Polish
Firewall x
DDoS protection x
Bandwidth Not unlimited as advertised Unlimited Unmetered 100GB Determined by hosting plan
Price $8.99/mo $.03/GB $14.99/mo $5/mo Free

 
Cloudways copied Rocket.net’s Cloudflare Enterprise and charged $5/mo even when it didn’t support APO and served annoying challenge pages. Kinsta’sWP Engine’s integrations aren’t Cloudflare Enterprise since they only have a few Enterprise features. SiteGround discontinued Cloudflare (previously free) and partnered with Google Cloud to market it as their own CDN for $14.99/mo. Even after v.2, there are complaints it makes your site slower and has many lacking speed/security features. WPX’s CDN (XDN) only has 39 PoPs and doesn’t have full page caching.

Key Features

  • APO – caches HTML which is one of the best/easiest ways to improve TTFB.
  • Prioritized routing – traffic gets prioritized which avoids traffic congestion.
  • Argo Smart Routing + Tiered Cache – detects traffic congestion and routes traffic through faster network paths. Cloudflare says assets load 30% faster and reduces requests to your origin server. Specifically good for WooCommerce/dynamic sites.
  • Load balancing – re-routes traffic from unhealthy origin servers to healthy origins.
  • WAF – Rocket.net also has built-in WAF rules, Imunify360, and real-time malware scanning. Which unlike other hosts, protects your site at both the server/CDN level.
  • Mirage/Polish – optimizes images without adding bloat or using resources like plugins do. It supports image compression, WebP, and several viewport/network optimizations. Polish doesn’t always serve images in WebP (usually if the savings aren’t high enough) which you can check in Chrome Dev Tools. However, when I manually converted images to WebP using a free online converter, savings were often 50%+. So if this happens to you, you can either convert them manually or install a dedicated WebP plugin such as Converter For Media (or WebP Express).
  • Early Hints – sends early preload & preconnect hints to reduce server wait time.
  • Brotli – compresses pages to smaller file sizes compared to GZIP compression.
  • Smart cachingsmart caching uses less resources when purging the cache by identifying what needs purging and when, then it only purges necessary assets.
  • Less challenge pages – unlike Cloudways, Rocket.net serves 0 challenge pages to logged out users and only serves 1 challenge to wp-login, then it’s gone for 1 year.
  • 3 less plugins – you shouldn’t need image optimization, security, or CDN plugins.

Rocket. Net cloudflare enterprise vs apo
Ben explains a few key differences between Cloudflare Enterprise vs. APO
Keycdn performance test cloudflare 1
Cloudflare free (no full page caching)
Rocket. Net keycdn performance test 1
Cloudflare Enterprise + full page caching
Rocket. Net analytics
Cloudflare analytics from Rocket.net’s dashboard (about 90% of bandwidth is served from Cloudflare)

 

4. Highly Optimized For WooCommerce

Rocket.net is especially fast for WooCommerce sites. A few key reasons are APO, Argo Smart Routing with Tiered Cache, NVMe SSDs, no PHP worker limits, Redis Object Cache Pro’s relay integration, and Rocket.net also strategically built their data centers right next to Cloudflare’s.

Rocket. Net woocommerce elementor

NVMe SSDs

These have about 6x faster read-write speeds than SATA SSDs which are used on most shared/cloud hosts. If you’re paying $100/mo and not using NVMe storage, what are ya doin’?

These tests were done by Rocket.net using WP Hosting Benchmark. The plugin runs tests on CPU/memory, filesystem, database, object cache, and network tests (try it out)!

Rocket. Net ssds
Rocket.net with SSD hard drives
Rocket. Net nvme
Rocket.net switches to NVMe

APO

Full page caching is even faster when you’re using Cloudflare’s 285+ PoPs. And if you look at their post launch report, you’ll notice it improves “phone” more than “desktop.” So if you’re struggling with mobile scores, you can either pay $5/mo for APO or get it for free Rocket.net.

Apo impact on ttfb

Apo impact on lcp

Apo impact on fcp

Argo Smart Routing

Cloudflare says “enabling Argo Smart Routing shaves an average of 33% off HTTP time to first byte (TTFB).” Argo is specifically good for speeding up dynamic sites like WooCommerce and membership sites, but it benefits static files as well. Rocket.net also uses Argo’s Tiered Cache.

Argo latency reduction

Redis (Redis Object Cache Pro On Business Plan And Up)

Redis is more powerful than Memcached, especially when using Redis Pro’s Relay integration. It’s good for speed, admin speed, and resource usage on WooCommerce/dynamic sites. Most hosts don’t support object cache, use Memcached instead, and Kinsta charges $100/month for it. Rocket.net uses the Redis Object Cache plugin (you’ll need to ask support to install it for you).

This table is found on objectcache.pro.

W3 Total Cache LiteSpeed Cache WP Redis Redis Object Cache Object Cache Pro
Performance
Batch Prefetching x x x x
Data compression x x x x
Cache priming x x x x
Asynchronous flushing x x x
Features
Cache Analytics x x x
Secure connections x x x
Highly customizable x x x x
Logging support x x x x
Cluster support x x x
Replication support x x x
Reliability
Mitigates race conditions x x x x
Extensively unit tested x x x x
Integrations
WooCommerce optimized x x x x
Query Monitor integration x x x Basic Advanced
WP CLI integration Basic x Basic Basic Advanced
Site Health checks x x x x
Batcache compatible x x x
Relay integration x x x x

 

5. More Resources, Less Limits

They list these in this post.

  • 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2667 v2 @ 3.30GHz (32 Cores)
  • 128GB RAM
  • RAIDED NVMe SSDs (they switched in 2022 after the post was written)

Kinsta/SiteGround cloud have 16x less RAM and Kinsta limits staging sites to just 1 CPU core (Rocket.net doesn’t). Cloudways/WPX only give you a very small amount of cores/RAM. And while these don’t directly mean a faster site, adding more (upgrading) is often a host’s go-to suggestion for fixing CPU limits. Rather than constantly upgrading, maybe upgrade your host?

  • CPU/RAM: with 32 CPU cores + 128GB RAM, it’s highly unlikely you’ll need to upgrade from this. I had to go from SiteGround’s GoGeek plan to their $180/mo cloud hosting because of this. Can also happen on other hosts who don’t give you enough resources (and if they don’t list cores/RAM, it’s probably not a good thing).
  • PHP workers: Rocket.net doesn’t limit PHP workers like Kinsta/WPE/WPX. Read this case study for a site with 1M+ visitors per 60 minutes where the need to scale PHP workers was eliminated. Kinsta only has 2 PHP workers on their lowest plan and recommends WooCommerce sites start at $115/mo because of workers/visits.
  • Monthly visits: with 10-25 more monthly visits than Kinsta/WPE, it’s also unlikely you’ll need to upgrade from this. Rocket, Kinsta, and WP Engine all count visits which include unknown bots and users with ad blockers (about 42.7% of people). Rocket.net’s starter plan has 250k/mo which means it’s about 106,750 visitors/mo.
  • Memory limit: it’s 256MB on Kinsta, 512MB on WP Engine, and 1GB on Rocket.net.

 

6. It’s Easy

Rocket.net is super simple:

  • Free migrations.
  • Easy to learn dashboard.
  • No launching servers (like Cloudways).
  • No configuring CDNs (their Cloudflare Enterprise is automatic).
  • Support goes out of the way and will help you improve core web vitals.

The whole point of “managed cloud hosting” is to be hands-off. So when you have to launch servers, configure CDNs, and migrate sites yourself, it’s not that managed. After requesting a migration, the only thing I did initially was upgrade PHP versions + ask support to install Redis.

 

7. Top Performer In Kevin Ohashi’s 2023 Hosting Benchmarks

Rocket.net was a top performer in Kevin Ohashi’s WP Hosting Benchmarks.

Anyone who’s been around the block knows Kevin’s tests are some of the most reliable out there. Most YouTubers and “fastest WordPress hosting speed tests” are garbage and ranked based on commissions, while Kevin’s methodology and non-affiliated results are more accurate.

Rocket. Net 2023 wordpress hosting benchmarks
Credit: wphostingbenchmarks.com

 

8. Ben Gabler’s Background + Interviews

Ben’s background is one of the main reasons I tried Rocket.net in the first place. Previously COO at HostGator, Chief Product Officer at StackPath, Senior Product Manager at GoDaddy, and now CEO of Rocket.net. Ben and Patrick Gallagher (from GridPane) did an interview together at Admin Bar which is completely non-promotional and 100% informative. Totally worth watching.

Rocket. Net ben gabler testimonial

Rocket. Net is amazing

 

9. Pricing, Bandwidth, No Hidden Upgrades/Add-Ons

Rocket.net’s pricing is essentially by bandwidth usage.

Once you learn how much bandwidth you need, choose a plan. Then subtract the costs of add-ons, CDNs, unexpected upgrades, time dealing with bad support, and lower conversions from a slower site. I’m not here to sell you on paying more for hosting, but it’s definitely worth it for me.

If you exceed the limit, Rocket.net uses soft limits and aren’t going to take down your site and lock you out like some hosts do, but you will eventually need to upgrade or reduce bandwidth usage. Monthly visits usually aren’t a problem considering you get 10x more than Kinsta/WPE.

Of course, I run a blog about WordPress speed and hosting reviews. And I’m guessing you’ll run it through speed tests and click through it. Think I’m gonna let your site load faster than mine?

Rocket. Net plans pricing

 

10. Support Is Night And Day

Ben, Chad, and their team take support to a new level.

I already know they went outside a typical host’s scope of work several times for me. And I normally can’t always trust hosts to touch (let alone migrate) my site, but their work has been timely and flawless every time with many staff having 20+ years experience. Ben even hops on chats/calls sometimes so if you get the chance, grab a notepad because he’s ahead of his time.

I usually use live chat which typically responds in seconds and feels like you’re actually talking to an actual person who clearly knows what they’re doing. Other than asking about specs, I’ve probably reached out 5 times in 1 year since my site runs smoothly. Fast, nice, knowledgeable.

 

11. Getting Popular In Facebook Groups

As of writing this, Rocket.net has all perfect 5/5 reviews on their TrustPilot profile. You can search keywords like “TTFB” or “Cloudways” to see specific reviews. If you do this, you’ll see several people are moving away from other hosts to Rocket.net, but not the other way around. Even if you search SiteGround’s 11,000 TrustPilot reviews, not 1 person came from Rocket.net.

Rocket. Net trustpilot

Ben also did an AMA in a Facebook group, or here’s more feedback.

Move to rocket. Net from sitegroundKinsta to rocket. Net resultsRocket. Net vs cloudways cpu usageRocket. Net no competitionRocket. Net trustpilot review
Siteground to cloudways to rocket. Net 2Rocket. Net vs siteground commentMoved to rocket. Net vs sitegroundKinsta to rocket. Net ttfb redisRocket. Net vs kinstaRocket. Net vs kinsta priceRocket. Net faster than cloudwaysRocket. Net vs. Cloudways comparisonBluehost to cloudways to rocket. NetSiteground to rocket. Net post 2Rocket. Net vs cloudways vultr hf trustpilot review

 

12. $1 Your 1st Month + Unlimited Free Migrations

Getting started:

  • Sign up for $1 your 1st month.
  • Talk to Ben or request a Zoom demo if you need an intro.
  • Benchmark your TTFB in KeyCDN and your LCP/FCP in PSI or GTmetrix.
  • Update DNS or TXT records, or request a free migration from their team.
  • Upgrade to the latest compatible PHP version, then ask support to install Redis.
  • Remove image optimization, security, CDN plugins (CF Enterprise handles these).
  • Configure FlyingPress , then retest your core web vitals (specifically TTFB, LCP, FCP).
Rocket. Net hosting go live
Add your site and update TXT records, or point your DNS to Rocket.net (they use Cloudflare’s DNS)
Rocket. Net dashboard 2
Update PHP version and configure advanced settings

Submit your site to Chrome’s HSTS Preload list. Use that site to see if yours supports it and if not, try this plugin. Rocket.net’s support will probably do it for you, but try to do it yourself first.

Hsts preload

 

13. Configure FlyingPress On Rocket.net (My Setup)

This is the same setup I use and I’ve confirmed several settings with Ben/Gijo.

FlyingPress

If you’re not using FlyingPress yet, it does a better job with core web vitals and real world browsing compared to WP Rocket and other optimization plugins with new features added regularly. Configure everything normally. Page caching will remain on to serve as a fallback cache in case it misses Cloudflare. Do not add Rocket.net’s CDN URL to the FlyingPress CDN settings, and there’s no need to use FlyingCDN with Cloudflare Enterprise. You can read my FlyingPress tutorial or click the thumbnails to see screenshots of the settings, but you should read the tutorial since lazy render, delay JS, and preloading fonts require manual configuration.

Screenshots (click to enlarge):

Perfmatters

The only feature you really need Perfmatters for is the script manager to disable plugins on pages/posts they’re not being used (this helps remove unused CSS/JavaScript) and possibly preloading Gutenberg’s CSS or other CSS/JS files. You could also use a free plugin like Asset CleanUp if the script manager is all you need it for. You’ll enable test mode to prevent it from breaking your site (by only showing changes to logged in admins), then start disabling plugins where they don’t need to load. Disable test mode when you’re done. Leave all other settings off (including CDN settings which like FlyingPress, you don’t need to add Rocket.net’s CDN URL to).

Disable social sharing plugins perfmatters

Conclusion

I don’t write glowing reviews for everyone (just read some of my other hosting reviews). But Rocket.net has been a game changer and I’ve been steering people to them since I switched.

Rocket. Net hosting poll short

Cheers to a faster TTFB/LCP/FCP.
Tom

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131 Comments...

  1. Hey Tom,

    just wanna confirm that I wouldn’t need an additional security plugin like Wordfence or Sucuri with Rocket.net hosting?

    Thanks, appreciate it!

    Reply
    • No security plugin either!

      But I would go through a security checklist like this one and make sure you’ve completed those. You shouldn’t need a bloated security plugin like Wordfence for these, maybe Limit Login Attempts then the rest should be able to be done manually or through various plugins. I believe Rocket.net disables XML-RPC but maybe check with them (I use Perfmatters for this).

      Reply
      • Cool, about to setup a new website, and your site has been phenomenal in helping with my decisions. Thank you. Will be utilizing your affiliate links happily! To summarize, would you say Rocket.net FlyingPress Perfmatters is great setup? Not sure if flyingpress and perfmatters will overlap each other or they work great together.

        Reply
        • I’m a big fan of that setup and yes, it’s what I use. Some features overlap do… Perfmatters is mainly for the general settings, script manager, preloading (since FlyingPress can only preload fonts and doesnt have prefetch/preconnect), and local analytics settings.

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  2. I was very excited to use Rocket.net, but after I saw the low bandwidth limit, it ends up getting 3x more expensive than the hosting I use on DO Runcloud Cloudflare PRO. Sad… I use about 2TB on Cloudflare on my main site that receives only 1 million monthly visits, for a limit of 300GB, very low.

    Reply
    • Yours sounds like a good setup already so it might not make sense. Might be slightly faster with better support but maybe not enough to justify the extra costs. Don’t know until you try them though (obviously).

      Reply
  3. Hey Tom,
    moved from Siteground to Rocket. (TTFB 764ms to 69ms on the Rocket-Temp-Url !!)
    But I do my final tests after my Domain is moved and finally connected to the new hosting.

    I must move my Domain away from Siteground. Is Cloudflare good for it or Godaddy? I think you mentioned Cloudflare in a different article based on the “dnsperf” Toplist… or does it not matter which domain provider I use because I have now Rocket.net as Hosting Provider?

    Reply
    • You can still use SiteGround for your domain, but I think you’re referring to DNS in which case yes, I would move it to Cloudflare.

      Reply
  4. Using Rocket.net since 2 months after reading this review article. Initially I was worried on bandwidth but later with helpful team support we managed it. Ben always read the support tickets and attend it if required. which is great. Tony and Ben make me convinced. thank you both

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  5. Hi, thanks for all the tips and advice as usual. I ‘was’ using Cloudways Vultr HF FlyingPress.
    I am now on Rocket.net and kept FlyingPress going.
    I had no CDN before and Rocket set everything up for me on such an easy and quick migration. The speed difference was immediate to see! Thanks for the tip.

    The only issue I have right now is since migration my sitemap cannot be fetched in GSC. Host blames Rankmath, Rankmath blames htaccess. FlyingPress says nothing changed. A vicious circle so far.

    Reply
    • I would assume that’s a problem with Rank Math since they generate the sitemap. If it’s a problem with .htaccess, Rank Math should be able to point you in the right direction IF it’s actually the problem.

      Reply
  6. Hi Tom,

    Honeslty speaking i alwasy follow your reviews and find the best soultion for my self,

    here are few thing please discuss with ben,

    1:- THe storage of website is very epxnesive after 10GB, i think they should increase the limit atleast 40GB for basic plan.

    2: Bandwidth 50GB, noway bro

    3: Monthly Visits 250,000

    ater all this it i will cost a lot. i think this is not well regarding price, as i caclute for my it will cost 130S a month.

    Please Be Honest as always you are, dont earn few buck in affliate to promote shitty service

    Reply
    • Calling them shitty because your hosting budget will be $130/mo is fine, they’re probably not for you then. Have you actually tested them or are you just saying this?

      1. Storage – they use NVMe (you’re paying more for better hardware). I’ll agree it’s low compared to a few other hosts using NVMe.
      2. Bandwidth – you’re getting higher quality bandwidth from Cloudflare. Hosts like Cloudways who include 5TB only serve it from 1 location (Ben explains this in the YouTube interview).
      3. Monthly visit – how can you have 250,000 monthly visits but not a $25/mo (or even $130/mo) hosting budget? Have you looked at Kinsta/WP Engine’s monthly visits? “Unlimited whatever” hosting is a joke because at some point you’re limited by things like PHP workers and are forced to upgrade.

      If you’re coming from an actually cheap/shitty host, yeah you’ll pay more at Rocket.net. They’re not targeting people coming from Hostinger, SiteGround, control panels, etc.

      About the affiliate stuff… the “main host” I recommend has always offered me the same commission for the last 7 years or so. I also recommend BunnyCDN over WP Rocket’s RocketCDN even though I get BunnyCDN credits when I could be getting cash payouts. LiteSpeed Cache over WP Rocket even though I earn nothing. GeneratePress over Astra even though commissions are way lower. I get the affiliate industry is tainted, but “earning a few bucks to promote a shitty service” is straight up not what I’m doing. There are also 0 aff links on my site to Hostinger, SiteGround, Bluehost, and the actual “shitty services.”

      I mainly choose the host with the best balance of of speed/support/price and a few other things. As they say, pick 2. Depending on who you’re moving from, Rocket.net can hit all 3. It just depends on your site/budget. If I’m being honest then yes, sometimes it will cost more to get a better service.

      What’s with the fake profile pic?

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      • Lets Comapre with Cloudways with Rockets.net what do you think?

        Not everyone have affliate site or ecommrece website where they can earn $$$$ from 100K vistors, i have google adsense base website and mostly users are coming from T3 countires where montly users 500k but earning 200$. So you can clculate the expenses it will goes more then that.

        there is not dout hosting is good but very expensive compare with cloudways, almost they have same features. but more NvM storage, more bandwidht, more users, (Yeah of course sometime you cpu limit is crossing when huge trrafic but its worht overall, 50GB bandwidth you know in 2 day my site already use 15GB imgine how much it will consume everymonth. users are also couting bots hahaha this is joke. again i said there is no dout about speed of the website but very expensive. showing and reality both are different.

        and i am not coming from cheap/shitty host. Using Clousways and A2 hosting, both are recommended by you and i am very happy with that. But this review is not reality.

        Kind regard,s

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        • You’re right, Cloudways has more storage/bandwidth. They also have about 10x less cores/RAM (depending on the Cloudways plan), no full paging caching (yet), and PHP-FPM (vs. LiteSpeed’s PHP). I listed this in the table. I’m sure there are other things I missed about each one’s Cloudflare Enterprise integration like firewall rules and whatnot, but as I said in the review, I also trust Ben’s experience with CDNs more.

          Trust me, I love Cloudways, and the speed/support at Rocket.net are just better. I even added a section in this review basically saying “they’re not for everyone.” It’s also why in most my articles, I list 3 options options mainly depending on speed/support/budget: NameHero, Cloudways Vultr HF, and Rocket.net (sometimes A2 is fine too). I think that’s fair.

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  7. Hey Tom,
    I took your advice and just switched from Siteground to Rocket and can already see a huge speed increase already. Thanks!

    I had a question about FlyingPress. Should I disable cache in FlyingPress since Rocket.net already incorporates Cloudflare Enterprise?

    Darren

    Reply
    • I’m going to ask Ben next time I talk with him because someone else just had to same question and I want to make sure I answer it right.

      Glad you had nice results! I’ve also been talking with someone who moved from SiteGround to Rocket (then SG Optimizer to FlyingPress) and said they noticed a huge difference. But I’ll update this review regarding FlyingPress’ caching and Rocket.net’s image optimization as soon as I talk to Ben since quite a few people have already asked about them.

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      • Looking forward to an update regarding this Tom after you have talked to Ben, if its still recommended to still use FlyingPress cache or if its better to have it disabled and only using the optimizations regarding js and css in the plugin.

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        • He recommended to keep in enabled in case the cache gets stale on the edge. I’m sure he can explain it better than I can, just relaying the message.

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        • Hi Ken, glad to hear you’re seeing great results! When it comes to that FlyingPress cache, go ahead and leave it on. That way if something ever falls out of cache, it can read from the page cache on disk instead of hitting PHP :)

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  8. Hello Tom,

    I am running an ecommerce site with Bluehost since 2019 since I started my business. That time I payed 250$ for the woocommerce starter plan for 3 years. now its time to renew but I have to pay 538$ in total for 3 years for the same plan. I gave managed to low my TTFB to an average of 236ms using plugins like wp-rocket, super page cache for cloudflare, perfmatters and shortpixel adaptive images.

    Right now I am using 39GB of disk space and 30GB of bandwith. I dont know wether to renew with Bluehost or migrate to a better hosting, but also I am not looking for something too expensive.

    It seems I will be short in Disk Space with Rocket.net, so I dont know what to do. What do you recommend me?

    Reply
    • Have you checked out NameHero? Think they might be a good option for you. Since you’re using LiteSpeed you can use LiteSpeed Cache and cancel WP Rocket since LSC is better anyway.

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      • Thank you for your fast response Tom

        Unfortunately I get access denied when I go to NameHero. Maybe because I am from Venezuela? I will try to use a vpn and contact them. I am checking Scala Hosting, is it a good option in case I cant use NameHero?

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