Rackspace had the most reliable hosting company site in March 2019. This is the second month in a row, and the third time in the last 12 months, that Rackspace has topped the ranking. Rackspace offers a range of managed dedicated and cloud hosting solutions.

The top five hosting company sites each responded to all of Netcraft's requests in March; to break the tie they are ranked by average connection times. This puts New York Internet in second place. NYI offers bare metal, cloud and colocation services in its US datacentres. One.com took third place, appearing in the top 10 for a second consecutive month. One.com offers a variety of internet services including a no-code website builder, 1-click WordPress installations, domain registrations and email hosting.

Linux is used by seven of the top 10 in March and remains the most popular choice of operating system, with the remaining three sites all powered by FreeBSD.

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.

Rackspace had the most reliable hosting company site in February 2019, and has now appeared in the top 10 eight times in the past 12 months. Rackspace offers a range of managed dedicated and cloud hosting solutions.

The top three hosting company sites responded to each of Netcraft's requests in February. Bigstep appears in second place, making February the third consecutive month it has appeared in the top three. Bigstep offers "bare metal" cloud hosting with the flexibility of virtual machines while also providing the isolation and efficiency of bare metal. One.com returns to the top 10 for the first time since October 2018. One.com offers a variety of internet services including a no-code website builder, 1-click WordPress installations, domain registrations and email hosting.

The next sites, placed fourth to sixth, failed to respond to one request from Netcraft. In fourth place is GoDaddy with the fastest average connection speed of 7ms. Hyve Managed Solutions appears in the top 10 for the fourth consecutive month, this time in fifth place. Pair Networks came sixth, with an average connection time of 93ms. The next four sites that made up the top 10 failed to respond to two requests from Netcraft in February 2019.

This month Linux is used by eight of the top 10, remaining the most popular choice. SmartOS makes an appearance in eighth place with EveryCity.

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.

Choopa.com had the most reliable hosting company website in January 2019, responding to all of Netcraft's requests. The company offers cloud hosting, dedicated servers, colocation and managed services from four locations across the US, Europe and Asia. Choopa.com's primary data centre is located in Piscataway, New Jersey.

EveryCity, Bigstep, Hyve Managed Hosting and CWCS Managed Hosting made up the rest of the top five, with their sites also responding to all of Netcraft's requests last month. The top five sites are separated by their average connection time. EveryCity has appeared in the top 10 hosting company sites over 35 times, maintaining 99.9994% uptime over 4 years. Bigstep has now made six consecutive appearances in the top 10 and maintained 99.97% uptime over 5 years.

Seven of the top ten most reliable hosting company websites used the Linux operating system in January. FreeBSD appears twice in the top ten, with SmartOS also making an appearance.

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.

EveryCity had the most reliable hosting company site in December 2018, with no failed requests and an average connection time of 70ms. EveryCity appeared eight times in the top 10 in 2018, and has maintained 99.9994% uptime over the last four years. The hosting company offers cloud hosting solutions and managed third-party services, with its primary data centre located in the heart of the City of London.

Four other hosting company sites also successfully responded to all of Netcraft's requests, and were ranked by their average connection times. In second place, Bigstep had an average connection time just a millisecond slower than EveryCity. Bigstep has maintained 99.97% uptime over the past five years. Webair, Hyve and CWCS complete the top five, with average connection times of 80ms, 81ms and 83ms.

Linux was the most popular operating system in December 2018, used by eight of the top 10 most reliable hosting company sites. SmartOS is used by EveryCity, which had the most reliable hosting company site. SmartOS is an open-source community fork of OpenSolaris designed specifically for cloud computing. FreeBSD also appears in the top 10 for December.

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 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.