In November 2018, GoDaddy had the most reliable hosting company site, with zero failed requests and the fastest average connection time of 6ms. This is the second consecutive month and the fourth time in 2018 that GoDaddy has taken the top spot. GoDaddy provides a wide range of hosting and domain registration services, including its widely used website builder software, which provides customers with a simple way to create a web presence.

Also achieving zero failed requests this month were EveryCity, Hyve Managed Hosting and Webair, with the tie between them broken by their average connection times of 74ms, 76ms and 80ms respectively. EveryCity offers its own cloud hosting solutions, as well as managed third-party cloud hosting services, including AWS and Azure. Hyve offers fully managed colocation services in 35 worldwide locations and has appeared in the top ten for 20 of the past 24 months.

Linux is the most popular choice of operating system in the top 10 this month, used by seven of the ten sites. Among the remaining sites, FreeBSD appears twice and SmartOS once.

Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of around thirty 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.

In October 2018, GoDaddy had the most reliable hosting company site, with a single failed request and the fastest average connection time of 5ms. GoDaddy's site has now appeared in the top 10 six times so far in 2018, and has topped the rankings three times in 2018. The Website Builder tool offered by GoDaddy is widely used, as seen in Netcraft's September Web Server Survey, and provides customers with a simple way to create a web presence.

Swishmail, Netcetera and dinahosting ranked second, third and fourth place, with their sites also only experiencing a single failed request. The tie is broken by their average connection times: 84ms, 85ms and 91ms. Swishmail is a provider of a range of email and web hosting services and returns to the top 10 for the 7th time in 2018.

Following in fifth and sixth place are vXtream Ltd and One.com, whose sites both failed to respond to two requests. Rackspace had the second fastest average connection time of 6ms but appears 7th in October due to 3 failed requests. Like GoDaddy, Rackspace has appeared in Netcraft's top 10 most reliable hosting company sites six times in 2018.

Linux continues to dominate the web server market as the most popular operating system and this is reflected in 9 of the top 10 hosting company sites being served by web-servers running Linux. FreeBSD also makes an appearance in second place.

Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of around thirty 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.

In September 2018 Rackspace had the most reliable hosting company website, with zero failed requests and the second fastest average connection time of 7ms. This is the second time in 2018 that Rackspace has had the most reliable hosting company website, and the fifth time Rackspace has been in the top 10 in the same period. Rackspace provides a diverse range of managed cloud hosting solutions to customers around the globe, with data centres and offices in the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Six other hosting companies' websites also responded to all of Netcraft's requests in September. EveryCity and Bigstep were ranked second and third with an average connection times of 71.8ms and 72.0ms respectively. EveryCity offers both its own cloud hosting solutions as well as managed third-party solutions. Fourth place was close behind, with vXtream achieving an average connection time of 75 ms.

GoDaddy, in eighth place, had the fastest average connection time of 6ms. krystal.co.uk returned to the top 10 for the first time since March 2017. Krystal is an independent UK-based hosting company and has the highest average Trustpilot score of any UK hosting company.

Linux is the most popular operating system among the top 10 this month, accounting for eight of the 10 sites. SmartOS makes an appearance in second place with EveryCity, and Pair Networks use FreeBSD.

Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of around thirty 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.

Bigstep had the most reliable hosting company website in August 2018, with zero failed requests and an average connection time of 72ms. This is the third time Bigstep has been in the top 10 in 2018 so far. Bigstep offers "bare metal" cloud hosting from datacentres in the UK, USA and Romania; the service aims to provide the flexibility of cloud hosting but without the associated overhead and performance reductions of virtualization.

Taking second place, August marks the sixth time CWCS has appeared in the top 10 in 2018. CWCS advertises a 100% uptime guarantee and responded to all of our requests this month. The UK-based company offers a variety of web and managed hosting services from data centres in Nottingham.

Also making its sixth appearance in the top 10 this year, Swishmail placed as the third most reliable website. Swishmail offers both managed email & web hosting plans using FreeBSD servers running Qmail SMTP & Apache web-server software.

All of the top 5 hosting company websites had no failed requests this month, and so were ranked on average connection time, with ServerStack and Pair Networks taking 4th and 5th positions.

Linux was the most popular operating system, being used by 8 out of the top 10 most reliable hosting company sites in August, with FreeBSD appearing twice.

Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of around twenty 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.

In July 2018 GoDaddy had the most reliable hosting company website, with zero failed requests and the fastest average connection time of 5ms. This is the second time GoDaddy has been top in 2018. GoDaddy provides a wide range of hosting and domain registration services, including its website builder software which is designed to give small businesses a web presence.

As well as GoDaddy, four of the other most reliable hosting company websites for July also achieved 100% uptime with no failed requests, and so have been ranked based on their average connection times.

Rackspace returned to the top 10, making a fifth appearance so far in 2018. Rackspace offers a range of managed dedicated & cloud hosting solutions from datacentres located on four continents as well as management services for customers using other cloud platforms such as OpenStack, Azure, or AWS.

Hyve Managed Hosting maintained its place as the third most reliable website, closely followed by Swishmail and Pair Networks. Multacom makes an appearance in the top 10 for the first time in 2018.

Of the sites we monitor, all three served by FreeBSD made the top 10. The other seven of the top 10 hosting sites were served by web-servers running Linux.

Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of around twenty-five 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.

The most reliable hosting company website in June 2018 belonged to choopa.com, it was the only site to respond to all of Netcraft's requests. Choopa.com offers cloud hosting, dedicated hosting and colocation in its own primary facility in Piscataway, New Jersey as well as smaller facilities in Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Tokyo. The website has achieved an uptime of 100% over the past 21 months, and a 99.98% uptime since Netcraft began monitoring the website in December 2009.

The next four hosting company websites only failed to respond to a single request each during June. The lower average connect time for BigStep's website, taking an average of 74ms, grants it second place above Hyve Managed Hosting, CWCS and dinahosting.com. Bigstep offers "bare metal" cloud hosting from datacentres in the UK, USA and Romania. The service claims to provide the flexibility of cloud hosting but without the associated overhead and performance reductions of virtualization.

Third placed Hyve Managed Hosting's website has appeared in the top ten 11 times in the past 12 months, the most of any monitored website. Netcraft has never observed an outage for www.hyve.com, giving it a 100% uptime record since Netcraft began monitoring it in June 2016.

Eight of the top ten most reliable hosting company websites used the Linux operating system in June. FreeBSD and SmartOS both make a single appearance to complete the top ten.

Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of around thirty 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.