James Whitfield

James Whitfield

Editor-in-Chief

AWS Solutions Architect, former hosting company CTO, 15+ years in server infrastructure

About

James was a sysadmin managing 200+ bare-metal servers at a mid-tier hosting company when he realized that every hosting review he read online was benchmarking the wrong things. He spent two years building a monitoring stack that tests real-world WordPress performance — time to first byte under concurrent load, database query latency during traffic spikes, and the actual support response time at 2am on a Saturday when your site is down. He's migrated over 300 sites across providers and has a spreadsheet tracking every hosting company's actual uptime versus their SLA claims going back to 2018. The spreadsheet has tabs. The tabs have subtabs.

10 years of experience in web hosting.

Expertise

  • Server performance benchmarking
  • WordPress hosting
  • Cloud infrastructure
  • Migration testing

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