Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in September 2015
5th October, 2015
| Rank | Performance Graph | OS | Outage hh:mm:ss |
Failed Req% |
DNS | Connect | First byte |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GoDaddy.com Inc | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.256 | 0.008 | 0.019 | 0.019 |
| 2 | Datapipe | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.004 | 0.164 | 0.012 | 0.025 | 0.032 |
| 3 | Qube Managed Services | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.004 | 0.150 | 0.044 | 0.089 | 0.089 |
| 4 | XILO Communications Ltd. | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.009 | 0.224 | 0.064 | 0.128 | 0.129 |
| 5 | Memset | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.013 | 0.159 | 0.065 | 0.158 | 0.248 |
| 6 | EveryCity | SmartOS | 0:00:00 | 0.018 | 0.100 | 0.067 | 0.133 | 0.134 |
| 7 | Anexia | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.018 | 0.191 | 0.086 | 0.174 | 0.174 |
| 8 | Pickaweb | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.026 | 0.305 | 0.010 | 0.168 | 0.169 |
| 9 | Hyve Managed Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.031 | 0.110 | 0.063 | 0.127 | 0.128 |
| 10 | Pair Networks | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.031 | 0.241 | 0.070 | 0.141 | 0.141 |
For the second month in a row, GoDaddy had the most reliable hosting company website. Throughout September, it was the only company to respond to all of Netcraft's requests, with an average connection time of only 8 milliseconds. This is the fifth time this year that GoDaddy has been in the top ten.
GoDaddy recently added new features to its GoDaddy Pro programme, which has grown to more than 50,000 members since its launch in June. Aimed at web designers and developers, it allows members to manage clients and clients' products, offering discounts of at least 30%.
Datapipe had the second most reliable hosting company website in September, with just a single failed request. Datapipe came first in July, and August was the only month so far this year when it was absent from the top ten.
On 9 September 2015, Datapipe announced that it had acquired DualSpark – an Amazon Web Services assessment, automation and migration company, which was founded by former AWS managers. Datapipe hopes to use DualSpark's DevOps and automation expertise to bring increased levels of support to its cloud clients.
Qube Managed Services ranked third in September, also with only one failed request, but with a marginally longer average connection time than Datapipe. Qube's site has appeared in the top ten for all but two months so far in 2015, making this its seventh appearance.
Linux dominates the chart this month, being used by eight of the top ten sites, and all of the top five. EveryCity uses the SmartOS community fork of OpenSolaris, while Pair Networks uses the FreeBSD operating system. This is the third month in a row where Microsoft Windows has been completely absent from the top ten.
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. In the event the number of failed requests are equal then sites are ranked by average connection times.
Information on the measurement process and current measurements is available.