Crucial

Name: Crucial Hosting
Brand: Crucial
Rating: 214.4 (6 reviews)

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Global

#765

#14

WPTR Score™

4289ms

Grade A+

1/10/2026

1MB Load

900ms

TTFB

2129ms

Quick Facts

Verified technical data.

Founded

2000

Last Tested

1/10/2026

Server

Cloudflare

Location

Australia

Features

HTTPS

Crucial

Est. 2000

Target

Australian businesses and data sovereignty focused entities

Sydney, Australia (Owned by Newfold Digital US)

WPTR Verified Provider

Quality & Security Audit

HSTS (Strict Security)

Brotli Compression

HTTP/3 (QUIC) Protocol

Overview

What is Crucial?

Formerly a sovereign favorite, now a Newfold Digital brand. Known for high-performance VPS and shared hosting for Australian SMBs.

Advantages

Strong VPS offering

Established brand

Good uptime

Disadvantages

Price increases post-acquisition

Not fully sovereign

Performance History

Performance Trends

TTFB Trend

Score Trend

Our Verdict

Based on our independent testing using the WPTR methodology, Crucial achieved a Real-Load Score of 4289ms (TTFB: 2129ms), placing it at #765 in our global hosting rankings.

Recent Benchmarks

Date	Server	TTFB	Score
January 9, 2026	-	2317ms	4427
January 9, 2026	-	721ms	4909
January 9, 2026	-	2734ms	4899
January 10, 2026	-	1125ms	4807
January 10, 2026	-	2225ms	4445

Capabilities

Key Features

High Performance VPS

cPanel Hosting

24/7 Support

99.9% Uptime

Carbon Neutral

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