Popular BitTorrent search engine The Pirate Bay has just come back online, around a day after it was apparently forced offline by a German court injunction filed a week ago.

The Motion Picture Association subsequently made a press release [pdf] about the injunction against CB3Rob Ltd & Co KG (Cyberbunker) and its operator, Mr. Sven Olaf Kamphuis, "restraining them from connecting The Pirate Bay site to the Internet".

However, the site is already back online — hosted at the same place as before — and now presents a defiant 'lolcat' message, presumably aimed at those who are trying to get the site shut down:

The Pirate Bay publishes many of the legal threats it receives, but proudly boasts that no torrents have ever been removed from the site.

The Pirate Bay website runs Linux and uses the lighttpd webserver.

The most reliable hosting company site in April was DataPipe, once again responding to all but four of Netcraft's requests.

DataPipe provides custom managed hosting solutions for businesses with complex Internet facing infrastructures with over 1,000 customers in seven data centres across the United States, Europe and China.

The second most reliable hosting company site in April was GoDaddy, responding to all but six of Netcraft's requests.

GoDaddy is the world's largest domain name registrar, managing more than 40 million domains.

Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of around forty leading hosting providers' sites. The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from separate points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.

From a customer's point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on hosting companies' own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why we choose to rank our table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage.

Further information on the measurement process and current measurements are available.

Memset had the most reliable hosting company site in March, responding to all but three of Netcraft's requests.

Memset provides dedicated physical and virtual servers, all-inclusive managed hosting and cloud-computing services from their two data centres near Reading, UK. Memset uses Apache on Linux to run their own website.

The second most reliable hosting company site in March was DataPipe, responding to all but four of Netcraft's requests.

DataPipe provides custom managed hosting solutions for businesses with complex Internet facing infrastructures with over 1,000 customers in seven data centres across the United States, Europe and China. DataPipe use Apache on FreeBSD to run their own website.

Six of the top ten in March were identified as running Linux and three as running FreeBSD. The operating system used by one of the top ten could not be identified.

Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of around forty leading hosting providers' sites. The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from separate points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.

From a customer's point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on hosting companies' own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why we choose to rank our table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage.

Further information on the measurement process and current measurements are available.

NaviSite had the most reliable hosting company site in February, responding to all of Netcraft's requests.

NaviSite, providers of managed hosting and application management solutions, sold its Lawson/Kronos Managed Application Service business this month in order to "focus on providing Enterprise-class cloud computing for large organisations with complex environments". NaviSite uses Apache on CentOS to run its own website.

The second most reliable hosting company site in February was DataPipe, responding to all but one of Netcraft's requests.

DataPipe provides custom managed hosting solutions for businesses with complex Internet facing infrastructures with over 1,000 customers in seven data centres across the United States, Europe and China. DataPipe use Apache on FreeBSD to run their own website.

Six of the top ten in February were identified as running Linux, two as running FreeBSD and one running Windows Server 2008.

Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of around forty leading hosting providers' sites. The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from separate points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.

From a customer's point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on hosting companies' own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why we choose to rank our table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage.

Further information on the measurement process and current measurements are available.

The first month of 2010 saw The Planet and Hosting 4 Less have the most reliable hosting company sites. Both sites responded to all but one of Netcraft's requests in January.

The Planet provides dedicated servers, managed hosting and colocation services to more than 20,000 businesses. The company has more than 10 million websites in Netcraft's Hosting Provider Analysis and uses Windows Server 2003 to run its own website.

Hosting 4 Less offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee, with its own OC48 Sonet Ring connecting their secure data center to the internet. Hosting 4 Less has been running since 1998 and currently uses Apache on Linux to serve its own website.

Four of the most reliable hosting company sites in January were identified as running Linux, while three were using FreeBSD and one was using Windows Server 2003.

Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of fifty leading hosting providers' sites. The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from separate points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.

From a customer's point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on hosting companies' own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why we choose to rank our table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage.

Further information on the measurement process and current measurements are available.