Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in November 2015
3rd December, 2015
| Rank | Performance Graph | OS | Outage hh:mm:ss |
Failed Req% |
DNS | Connect | First byte |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One.com | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.211g | 0.035 | 0.100 | 0.100 |
| 2 | GoDaddy.com Inc | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.009 | 0.258 | 0.008 | 0.019 | 0.020 |
| 3 | Datapipe | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.009 | 0.145 | 0.012 | 0.025 | 0.031 |
| 4 | XILO Communications Ltd. | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.009 | 0.213 | 0.063 | 0.126 | 0.126 |
| 5 | EveryCity | SmartOS | 0:00:00 | 0.009 | 0.094 | 0.065 | 0.131 | 0.131 |
| 6 | Anexia | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.009 | 0.191 | 0.083 | 0.169 | 0.169 |
| 7 | Hivelocity | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.009 | 0.174 | 0.087 | 0.174 | 0.174 |
| 8 | Lightcrest | unknown | 0:00:00 | 0.013 | 0.278 | 0.007 | 0.019 | 0.023 |
| 9 | INetU | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.013 | 0.146 | 0.066 | 0.131 | 0.131 |
| 10 | ServerStack | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.013 | 0.130 | 0.066 | 0.132 | 0.132 |
One.com topped the table after successfully responding to all of Netcraft's requests in November. It last appeared in the top 10 in June 2015 when it placed ninth. The Denmark-based company offers shared hosting packages — all of which include unlimited traffic — from data centres operated by Interxion.
After having the most reliable hosting company site for the past three months, GoDaddy narrowly missed the top spot in November. Although five other sites also had two failed requests, GoDaddy's site is placed second based on its faster average connection time of 8ms.
Also with just two failed requests, Datapipe placed third in November. Datapipe has appeared in all but one of the top 10 lists in 2015 and has maintained a 100% uptime record for more than nine years. For the seventh time, Datapipe was recognised as one of New Jersey's 50 fastest growing companies, after a year that included the acquistion of GoGrid and DualSpark.
The top 10 is once again dominated by websites using Linux, which is used by eight of the top 10 sites. EveryCity, the only site that has been in the top 10 for every month of this year so far, uses SmartOS. Microsoft Windows is absent from the list for the fifth consecutive month.
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.