Interland, Rackspace and Hostway Share Most Reliable Hosting Company Site during April
4th May, 2005
April 1st - 30th April 2005
Interland, Rackspace and Hostway share the top slot as as the most reliable hosting companies site this month, followed by New York Internet and Hurricane Electric. Rackspace was also the top performer in February and in March, but this is the first time that Interland and Hostway have managed to reach this spot. The three co-leaders are leading players in the U.S. business hosting market, with each hosting more than 500,000 hostnames.
This month's top 10 includes four sites running on Linux, two on Windows 2000, one on Windows Server 2003 and three on FreeBSD.
This marks the eighth consecutive month in the top 10 for INetU, a managed hosting provider in Allentown, Pa. Since the start of 2004, INetU has been among the reliability leaders for 15 out of 17 months.
Rackspace Most Reliable Hosting Company Site during March
12th April, 2005
March 1st - 31st March 2005
Rackspace, is once again ranked as the most reliable hosting company site this month, followed by OLM and INetU. Rackspace was also the top performer in February. This month's top 10 includes five sites running on Linux, two on Windows 2000, one on Windows Server 2003 and two on FreeBSD.
This marks the seventh consecutive month in the top 10 for INetU, a managed hosting provider in Allentown, Pa. Since the start of 2004, INetU has been among the reliability leaders for 14 out of 16 months. Other consistent top 10 performers in recent months include Datapipe (eight of the last 10 months) and New York Internet (five of the last seven months).
Rackspace Most Reliable Hosting Company Site during February
7th March, 2005
February 1st - 28th 2005
Rackspace, New York Internet, Verio and Pair Networks ranked as the most reliable hosters during February 2005. Rackspace, a managed hosting specialist, has made numerous appearances in the monthly top 10, but this is the first time it has been the top performer. Making its first appearance is domain registrar Go Daddy, which was highly reliable during a period of heavy site traffic related to a Super Bowl advertisement.
This month's top 10 includes four sites running on Linux, two on Windows Server 2003, three on FreeBSD and one on Solaris 8. A Linux site was the most reliable for the first time since June 2004, ending a string of months in which either FreeBSD or Windows Server 2003 powered the top performing site.
Most Reliable Hosting Providers during January
1st February, 2005
January 1st - 31st 2005
Datapipe, which was the most reliable hosting provider for the second half of 2004, got the new year off to a strong start with a faultless performance in January, with no failed requests from any of our measurement points. It was the first flawless month for a hosting provider since last March, when German hoster Komplex had zero failures.
Datapipe's web site is powered by Windows Server 2003. This month's top 10 includes four sites running on Linux, two on Windows Server 2003, two on FreeBSD, one on Solaris 9, and one site (Interland) on Windows 2000.
Datapipe most reliable hosting company site during second half of 2004
3rd January, 2005
From a customers’ point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on the 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. Six hosting companies went through the period with 0.2% or less of requests failing from our seven measurement points.
Four companies in the top 10 were also in the corresponding top 10 a year ago, with Datapipe moving from second place last year to top the chart. Other companies in last years list include Pair Networks and iPowerWeb.
The distribution of operating systems commonly used by hosting companies amongst the sites is quite even with three of the top ten sites running on each of Windows, FreeBSD and Linux.
July 1st - December 31st 2004
Most Reliable Hosting Providers during November
2nd December, 2004
November 1st - 30th 2004
During November all of the sites monitored experienced some failed requests, with New York Internet the most reliable site during the period, followed by Pair Networks.
Half of the top ten sites were running BSD based operating systems, with four running Linux, and hosting.com nee Express Technologies running Windows.