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Mohan Raj

Mohan Raj is the founder of Hostingstep.com. He reviews web hosting providers by purchasing hosting accounts with his own funds and testing them 24/7, 365 days a year. He runs 525,600 performance tests a year, covering TTFB speed, uptime, load handling, Core Web Vitals and hardware benchmarks. With that data, he writes transparent hosting reviews with publicly verifiable performance data, giving the utmost confidence for Hostingstep.com visitors to find their ideal hosting choices.

How to Self Host n8n?

The best way to self host n8n is to use Hostinger n8n VPS hosting. We’ve tried multiple other options, both free and premium, but you need to install n8n manually through the terminal. However, Hostinger offers a pre-tuned n8n setup…

Cloudways Vs Kinsta: 3-Years Performance Compared

Cloudways Vs Kinsta

If you are trying to decide between Cloudways and Kinsta, welcome to our data-driven comparison, which includes three years of data. We bought hosting accounts on Cloudways and Kinsta, installed a WordPress site with the same setup, and started monitoring…

Cloudways vs SiteGround – Bought, Tested and Compared

The short answer Cloudways is faster and steadier than SiteGround on everyday performance. Over 304 days, Cloudways DigitalOcean Standard averaged 442ms against SiteGround’s 751ms, went down 7 minutes against SiteGround’s 1 hour 59 minutes, and returned 386ms global TTFB against…

Cloudways Vs WP Engine: Bought & Tested

Cloudways Vs WP Engine

Summary: WP Engine records 361ms TTFB speed, 99.9933% uptime, 27ms load handling response time, 65ms cached global TTFB and a 6.5/10 WPBench score. score. The performance data was collected between November 1, 2025 and August 29, 2026. In the same…

Kinsta Vs WP Engine: Bought and Tested

Summary: WP Engine outperforms Kinsta in most performance tests like response time, uptime, load handling and Global TTFB. Meanwhile, Kinsta is rock solid with server hardware score outperforming WP Engine by a big margin. The performance data discussed here is…