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  1. New York Internet most reliable hosting company site during November

    During November www.nyi.net was the most reliable hosting company site monitored by us with just one failed request from our five measurement points during the month. New York Internet is the first company to be top of the table for two months, having previously been top in June.

    Sites running on BSD operating systems occupied six out of the first seven places: Secure Dog Hosting runs OpenBSD, while New York Internet, INetU, USWest, IPowerweb, and Yahoo all use FreeBSD.

    Ranking by Failed Requests and Connection time,
    November 1st - November 30th

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    Posted by Netcraft Admin on 5th December, 2003 in Hosting, Performance Share

  2. Secure Dog Hosting most reliable hosting company site during October

    Secure hosting specialist, DITSCAP certified Secure Dog Hosting became the first hosting company to have its site run a complete calander month without a single request from any of our five performance monitoring machines failing. This speaks strongly for its routing providers, and the generally benign conditions on the Internet over the last month as well as for the stability and responsiveness of its own infrastructure.

    Sites running on BSD operating systems occupied the first four places: Secure Dog Hosting runs OpenBSD, Pair Networks, INetU, and IPowerweb all use FreeBSD. The top placed European company site was Energis, who provide the connectivity for Netcraft's own web sites. None of the performance measurement points is on Energis' network.

    Ranking by Failed Requests and Connection time,
    October 1st - October 31st

    Top Performing Hosting Company Sites

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    Posted by Mike Prettejohn on 2nd November, 2003 in Hosting, Performance Share

  3. Most reliable and fastest hosting company sites during August

    Many events that could adversely affect performance and reliability hit the hosting industry during August including Distributed Denial of Service Attacks, the Power Outage in the North East US and Canada, a much shorter outage in London, the Blaster Worm, the SoBig Virus, and a deluge of related mail from poorly written anti-virus programs.

    Ranking by Failed Requests and Connection time,
    August 1st - August 31st

    Top Performing Hosting Company Sites

    Remarkably the numbers of failed requests to hosting company sites did not rise significantly during the month; a testament to the durability of the Internet. However this hid some big variations: (more...)

    Posted by Mike Prettejohn on 1st September, 2003 in Hosting, Performance Share

  4. Further DDoS Attack on Rackspace?

    Rackspace's site was down for around two and a half hours early this morning [BST], in what may likely have been a repeat of Tuesday's distributed denial of service attack.

    The response times to our own performance collector on Rackspace's network indicate that the attack did not adversely affect response times to other machines at Rackspace.

    Posted by Mike Prettejohn on 30th August, 2003 in Hosting, Performance, Security Share

  5. Hosting Companies under Attack

    The recent spate of distributed denial of service attacks has diversified, with some attackers apparently now targetting hosting companies.

    On Tuesday rackspace.com was attacked just one day after issuing a press release launching a service to mitigate the effects of DDoS attacks, while early this morning[BST] Rackshack appeared to suffer a similar attack. (more...)

    Posted by Mike Prettejohn on 29th August, 2003 in Hosting, Performance, Security Share

  6. SCO site down for well over 2 days

    Nick Marsh points out that the www.sco.com site has been down for a long time - now over two days so far according to our performance measurements.

    failed requests at www.sco.com

    At the moment, it is not known whether the SCO site has been successfully attacked, intentionally taken down, has lost connectivity or has simply broken. (more...)

    Posted by Mike Prettejohn on 24th August, 2003 in Around the Net, Performance Share

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