Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in October 2015
9th November, 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 | 0.255 | 0.007 | 0.019 | 0.019 |
| 2 | Swishmail | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.153 | 0.062 | 0.123 | 0.166 |
| 3 | XILO Communications Ltd. | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.224 | 0.063 | 0.126 | 0.126 |
| 4 | Datapipe | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.004 | 0.156 | 0.012 | 0.025 | 0.032 |
| 5 | Qube Managed Services | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.004 | 0.148 | 0.043 | 0.088 | 0.088 |
| 6 | EveryCity | SmartOS | 0:00:00 | 0.004 | 0.092 | 0.066 | 0.133 | 0.133 |
| 7 | Anexia | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.004 | 0.187 | 0.085 | 0.171 | 0.172 |
| 8 | Hivelocity Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.004 | 0.185 | 0.091 | 0.181 | 0.181 |
| 9 | Bigstep | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.013 | 0.160 | 0.060 | 0.122 | 0.122 |
| 10 | Memset | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.013 | 0.157 | 0.063 | 0.160 | 0.246 |
For the third month in a row, GoDaddy has had the most reliable hosting company site. It responded to every availability request made by Netcraft throughout October, with an average connection time of just 7 milliseconds. This is the sixth time this year that GoDaddy has featured in the top ten.
On 29 October, GoDaddy announced a new 'best-in-class' partner offer with AdAgility for customers of its GoDaddy Pro programme. This additional feature allows web designers and developers to take greater control over the advertising content on their sites.
Swishmail has risen to second place for reliability this month. This is now its third appearance in the top ten since January, with the last appearance—in July—placing it tenth. Like GoDaddy, Swishmail responded to all of the availability requests made by Netcraft throughout October; however, the average connection time sat higher at 62 milliseconds.
XILO Communications Ltd. saw a return to the top three most reliable hosting companies this month for the first time since January. Like GoDaddy and Swishmail, 100% of the availability requests made by Netcraft received a response. With an average connection time of 63 milliseconds, this makes it the eighth time this year that XILO Communications Ltd. has made it into the top ten.
Yet again, the table this month is dominated by Linux, which is used by eight of the top ten sites. EveryCity uses the SmartOS community fork of OpenSolaris, while Swishmail uses the FreeBSD operating system. This is now the fourth 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.