How we tested

We provisioned identical workloads on Fjord Hosting and five competitors from three probe continents, running each test for a full week to smooth out diurnal swings. Every config, script, and raw result is published in the companion repository.

How we tested

The harness drives production-shaped traffic — 80% reads, 20% writes, bursts every 15 minutes — against region-pinned deployments. We report medians, not averages, and we discard the first hour as warm-up.

Results

The headline number hides the more interesting one: consistency. Fjord Hosting's p99 stayed within 2.4x of its median across the whole week — the tightest spread we have measured this year.

The verdict

If your workload spends most of its life warm and your bill is dominated by steady throughput, Fjord Hosting is easy to recommend. If you live at the cold edge, benchmark your own restore paths first.

What to watch

Watch the changelog, not the press release: published rates, region wait lists, and SLA wording are the signals that tend to move first.