Hurricane Electric is the Most Reliable Hosting Company in August 2008
8th September, 2008
Ranking by Failed Requests and Connection time,
August 1st – 31st 2008
| Rank | Company site | OS | Outage hh:mm:ss |
Failed Req% |
DNS | Connect | First byte |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | www.he.net | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.00 | 0.001 | 0.053 | 0.111 | 0.164 |
| 2 | DataPipe | unknown | 0:00:00 | 0.01 | 0.002 | 0.014 | 0.029 | 0.045 |
| 3 | www.godaddy.com | Windows Server 2003 | 0:00:00 | 0.01 | 0.054 | 0.041 | 0.264 | 0.264 |
| 4 | INetU | unknown | 0:00:00 | 0.01 | 0.038 | 0.044 | 0.237 | 0.383 |
| 5 | New York Internet | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.01 | 0.002 | 0.047 | 0.096 | 0.245 |
| 6 | www.swishmail.com | unknown | 0:00:00 | 0.01 | 0.001 | 0.061 | 0.123 | 0.340 |
| 7 | www.web.com | Windows 2000 | 0:00:00 | 0.01 | 0.110 | 0.074 | 0.185 | 0.621 |
| 8 | Hosting 4 Less | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.01 | 0.067 | 0.080 | 0.164 | 0.365 |
| 9 | www.datasync.com | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.02 | 0.001 | 0.050 | 0.116 | 0.167 |
| 10 | Verio | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.02 | 0.067 | 0.076 | 0.152 | 0.152 |
Hurricane Electric is the most reliable hosting company site for August 2008.
Hurricane Electric is an internet backbone and colocation provider based in Fremont, CA. The company specializes in colocation, dedicated servers, direct internet connections and web hosting using its own network, which uses multiple OC192s, OC48s and gigabit ethernet. Starting off in a garage in 1994, the company now owns serveral datacenters, including a 200,000 square foot facility in Fremont. Hurricane Electric was previously the most reliable hosting company in November 2007
Four of this month's top hosting companies run Linux on their main sites, including Hurricane Electric.
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.