Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in February 2022
2nd March, 2022
| Rank | Performance Graph | OS | Outage hh:mm:ss |
Failed Req% |
DNS | Connect | First byte |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aruba | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.369 | 0.007 | 0.030 | 0.043 |
| 2 | Rackspace | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.524 | 0.011 | 0.023 | 0.023 |
| 3 | Bigstep | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.193 | 0.078 | 0.154 | 0.154 |
| 4 | CWCS Managed Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.314 | 0.079 | 0.156 | 0.156 |
| 5 | Hyve Managed Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.146 | 0.079 | 0.158 | 0.158 |
| 6 | krystal.uk | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.197 | 0.090 | 0.177 | 0.177 |
| 7 | Swishmail | unknown | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.243 | 0.106 | 0.210 | 0.210 |
| 8 | Pair Networks | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.377 | 0.119 | 0.239 | 0.239 |
| 9 | Multacom | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.382 | 0.144 | 0.289 | 0.289 |
| 10 | www.dinahosting.com | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.009 | 0.215 | 0.084 | 0.168 | 0.168 |
Aruba had the most reliable hosting company site in February 2022, continuing to top the table for the third consecutive month. Aruba provides hosting, cloud and digital signature services, fibre optic internet, digital preservation, and much more, with data centres across Europe in the UK, Germany, Czechia, Poland, Italy and France. The top nine hosting company sites each responded to all of Netcraft’s requests and were separated by average connection time.
Rackspace came in second place, keeping its second place podium spot for the third consecutive month and appearing in the top two for the fifth consecutive month. The company offers a variety of cloud hosting solutions from 19 data centres across five different continents in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. In third place, Bigstep provides bare metal hosting solutions from data centres in the UK and Romania with additional facilities in North America and Europe for project delivery.
Nine of the top 10 hosting company sites used Linux in February, with the operating system continuing its dominance in the table. Swishmail used an unidentified OS.
Posted in Most Reliable Hosters
Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in January 2022
1st February, 2022
| Rank | Performance Graph | OS | Outage hh:mm:ss |
Failed Req% |
DNS | Connect | First byte |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aruba | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.386 | 0.008 | 0.034 | 0.035 |
| 2 | Rackspace | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.529 | 0.012 | 0.025 | 0.025 |
| 3 | Hyve Managed Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.149 | 0.084 | 0.167 | 0.167 |
| 4 | www.dinahosting.com | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.219 | 0.084 | 0.168 | 0.169 |
| 5 | Bigstep | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.195 | 0.086 | 0.171 | 0.171 |
| 6 | Swishmail | unknown | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.246 | 0.108 | 0.214 | 0.214 |
| 7 | www.flexential.com | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.008 | 0.274 | 0.105 | 0.212 | 0.212 |
| 8 | ServerStack | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.008 | 0.230 | 0.107 | 0.213 | 0.214 |
| 9 | Pair Networks | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.008 | 0.377 | 0.118 | 0.235 | 0.235 |
| 10 | New York Internet (NYI) | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.017 | 0.592 | 0.082 | 0.164 | 0.164 |
Aruba kicked off 2022 with the most reliable hosting company site in January, continuing to top the table from December 2021. The top six hosting company sites each responded to all of Netcraft’s requests in January and were separated by average connection time. Aruba provides hosting, cloud and digital signature services, fibre optic internet, digital preservation, and much more. The company has data centres across Europe in the UK, Germany, Czechia, Poland, Italy and France.
Rackspace and Hyve Managed Hosting came in second and third in January, which means the podium places are unchanged from December 2021. Rackspace provides a wide variety of cloud services from its global network of over 50 locations across five continents. Hyve offers cloud hosting, dedicated servers and managed services from data centres in 34 locations around the world.
Eight of the top 10 hosting company sites used Linux in January, continuing the dominance of Linux. FreeBSD made an appearance in eighth place with New York Internet and Swishmail used an unidentified OS.
Posted in Most Reliable Hosters
Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in December 2021
4th January, 2022
| Rank | Performance Graph | OS | Outage hh:mm:ss |
Failed Req% |
DNS | Connect | First byte |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aruba | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.310 | 0.005 | 0.030 | 0.030 |
| 2 | Rackspace | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.456 | 0.008 | 0.017 | 0.017 |
| 3 | Hyve Managed Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.122 | 0.062 | 0.124 | 0.124 |
| 4 | ServerStack | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.194 | 0.102 | 0.202 | 0.202 |
| 5 | Pair Networks | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.342 | 0.113 | 0.227 | 0.227 |
| 6 | CWCS Managed Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.284 | 0.062 | 0.123 | 0.124 |
| 7 | Bigstep | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.170 | 0.064 | 0.128 | 0.128 |
| 8 | www.dinahosting.com | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.184 | 0.072 | 0.145 | 0.145 |
| 9 | HN Datacenter | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.559 | 0.224 | 1.080 | 1.089 |
| 10 | krystal.uk | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.013 | 0.178 | 0.079 | 0.154 | 0.154 |
Aruba finished 2021 as the most reliable hosting company site in December, with no failed requests and the second fastest average connection time. Aruba provides hosting, cloud and digital signature services, fibre optic internet, digital preservation, and much more, with data centres across Europe in the UK, Germany, Czechia, Poland, Italy and France.
The top five hosting company sites each responded to all of Netcraft’s requests in December and so are ranked on their average connection times. The top five is completed by Rackspace, Hyve Managed Hosting, ServerStack and Pair Networks. In second place, Rackspace appeared in the top 10 every month in 2021 and offers a variety of cloud hosting solutions from 19 data centres across five different continents in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. Hyve Managed Hosting also appeared in the top 10 every month in 2021. Hyve offers cloud hosting, dedicated servers and managed services from data centres in 34 locations around the world.
ServerStack appeared 10 times in the top 10 in 2021 and provides managed and dedicated solutions from its three data centres in North America and Amsterdam. Pair Networks made seven top 10 appearances in 2021 and provides a range of managed and dedicated hosting solutions from its data centre in the US, as well as domain registration.
Linux continues to dominate the top 10, with all of the top 10 using Linux in December. Across 2021 Linux appeared 109 times in the top 10, with FreeBSD making 9 appearances and SmartOS appearing once in January 2021.
Posted in Most Reliable Hosters
Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in November 2021
1st December, 2021
| Rank | Performance Graph | OS | Outage hh:mm:ss |
Failed Req% |
DNS | Connect | First byte |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rackspace | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.463 | 0.008 | 0.020 | 0.020 |
| 2 | Bigstep | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.190 | 0.063 | 0.126 | 0.126 |
| 3 | CWCS Managed Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.291 | 0.064 | 0.127 | 0.127 |
| 4 | Hyve Managed Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.128 | 0.068 | 0.137 | 0.137 |
| 5 | www.dinahosting.com | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.189 | 0.072 | 0.144 | 0.144 |
| 6 | Swishmail | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.218 | 0.098 | 0.196 | 0.196 |
| 7 | ServerStack | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.201 | 0.104 | 0.205 | 0.205 |
| 8 | Aruba | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.340 | 0.006 | 0.030 | 0.030 |
| 9 | New York Internet (NYI) | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.536 | 0.063 | 0.127 | 0.127 |
| 10 | krystal.uk | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.176 | 0.084 | 0.159 | 0.159 |
Rackspace had the most reliable hosting company site in November 2021, with an average connection time of just 8ms across the month and no failed requests. Rackspace has appeared in the top 10 most reliable hosting company sites every month of the past 12 months, and has taken the number one spot in five of those. Rackspace offers a wide variety of cloud hosting solutions from over 40 data centres across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Places two, three and four in November 2021 go to Bigstep, CWCS Managed Hosting and Hyve Managed Hosting respectively. All three of these hosting company sites had no failed requests and were competitive on average connection times, coming in at 63ms, 64ms and 68ms respectively.
Bigstep’s bare metal cloud hosting provides the flexibility of cloud hosting without the associated overhead and performance reductions of virtualization. The bare metal offerings are available in data centres in the UK and Romania. CWCS Managed Hosting offer dedicated servers, cloud and VPS hosting, colocation services, domain names and email services from their seven data centres across the UK, USA and Canada. Hyve Managed Hosting offer cloud hosting, dedicated servers and managed services from data centres in 34 locations around the world.
Nine of the top 10 hosting company sites used Linux in October, continuing the dominance of Linux. In ninth place, New York Internet (NYI) used FreeBSD.
Posted in Most Reliable Hosters
Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in October 2021
4th November, 2021
| Rank | Performance Graph | OS | Outage hh:mm:ss |
Failed Req% |
DNS | Connect | First byte |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rackspace | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.490 | 0.008 | 0.017 | 0.017 |
| 2 | CWCS Managed Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.246 | 0.062 | 0.125 | 0.125 |
| 3 | www.choopa.com | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.256 | 0.003 | 0.020 | 0.020 |
| 4 | Bigstep | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.203 | 0.063 | 0.127 | 0.127 |
| 5 | Swishmail | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.229 | 0.098 | 0.194 | 0.194 |
| 6 | ServerStack | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.211 | 0.102 | 0.203 | 0.203 |
| 7 | New York Internet (NYI) | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.027 | 0.551 | 0.062 | 0.124 | 0.124 |
| 8 | Hivelocity | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.034 | 0.354 | 0.003 | 0.035 | 0.035 |
| 9 | Hyve Managed Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.034 | 0.136 | 0.072 | 0.147 | 0.147 |
| 10 | Multacom | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.047 | 0.409 | 0.147 | 0.296 | 0.296 |
Rackspace had the most reliable hosting company site in October 2021, with an average connection time of 8ms and no failed requests. So far in 2021, Rackspace has appeared in the top 10 every month, with four appearances in first place. Rackspace provides a wide variety of cloud services from its global network of over 50 locations across five continents.
In second place, CWCS Managed Hosting also responded to each of Netcraft’s requests in October, with an average connection time of 62ms. CWCS provides dedicated servers and cloud services with data centres across the UK and North America.
The top five is completed by Choopa.com, Bigstep and Swishmail whose sites each responded to the same number of requests and were separated by average connection time. Choopa.com had the fastest average connection time of just 3ms. Choopa.com offers a range of services including cloud hosting, dedicated hosting and colocation with its own primary facility in Piscataway, New Jersey and other facilities in Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Tokyo. Colocation from Choopa.com is available in the US, Amsterdam and London.
Bigstep provides bare metal hosting solutions from data centres in the UK and Romania with additional facilities in North America and Europe for project delivery. Swishmail provides business email services with hosting services from three data centre facilities in New York.
Nine of the top 10 hosting company sites used Linux in October, continuing the dominance of Linux. In seventh place, New York Internet (NYI) used FreeBSD.
Posted in Most Reliable Hosters
Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in September 2021
4th October, 2021
| Rank | Performance Graph | OS | Outage hh:mm:ss |
Failed Req% |
DNS | Connect | First byte |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York Internet (NYI) | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.554 | 0.061 | 0.121 | 0.122 |
| 2 | Bigstep | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.201 | 0.063 | 0.125 | 0.125 |
| 3 | CWCS Managed Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.247 | 0.066 | 0.132 | 0.132 |
| 4 | Dinahosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.202 | 0.073 | 0.147 | 0.147 |
| 5 | Swishmail | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.229 | 0.096 | 0.192 | 0.192 |
| 6 | ServerStack | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.213 | 0.100 | 0.200 | 0.200 |
| 7 | Pair Networks | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.365 | 0.116 | 0.232 | 0.232 |
| 8 | GoDaddy.com Inc | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.419 | 0.008 | 0.033 | 0.035 |
| 9 | Rackspace | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.489 | 0.010 | 0.020 | 0.020 |
| 10 | Hyve Managed Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.138 | 0.073 | 0.145 | 0.145 |
In September 2021, New York Internet (NYI) had the most reliable hosting company site: it responded to all of Netcraft’s requests, with an average connection time of 61ms. NYI has appeared in the top 10 table seven times in 2021 so far. Customers can choose from a range of cloud, colocation, bare metal and managed solutions.
Bigstep, CWCS Managed Hosting and Dinahosting appear in second, third and fourth places. Bigstep came close to NYI in average connection time, averaging 63ms. CWCS and Dinahosting both followed, averaging 66ms and 73ms respectively.
Bigstep’s bare metal cloud hosting provides the flexibility of cloud hosting without the associated overhead and performance reductions of virtualization. The bare metal offerings are available in data centres in the UK and Romania.
CWCS provides dedicated servers along with cloud services, as well as domain registration and VPS hosting. CWCS has data centres across the UK, as well as North America.
Dinahosting provides cloud hosting and domain registration services, with data centres located at Interxion and Global Switch, in Madrid.
The top hosting company in September used FreeBSD, whilst the rest of the top 10 used Linux. This marks the first time in 2021 that a non-Linux provider has been the most reliable host, but Linux remains clearly dominant in the top 10 throughout this year.