New York Internet most reliable hosting company site during November
5th December, 2003
Sites running on BSD operating systems occupied six out of the first seven places: Secure Dog Hosting runs OpenBSD, while New York Internet, INetU, USWest, IPowerweb, and Yahoo all use FreeBSD.
November 1st - November 30th
Secure Dog Hosting most reliable hosting company site during October
2nd November, 2003
Sites running on BSD operating systems occupied the first four places: Secure Dog Hosting runs OpenBSD, Pair Networks, INetU, and IPowerweb all use FreeBSD. The top placed European company site was Energis, who provide the connectivity for Netcraft's own web sites. None of the performance measurement points is on Energis' network.
October 1st - October 31st
British Telecom and DellHost most reliable hosting company sites during September
3rd October, 2003
September 1st - September 30th
After August, which contained the Blaster Worm, the SoBig Virus, and the North East US/Canada power outage, September was a much more benign month for the internet, with the top two sites showing remarkable reliability.
Just one of the 2976 requests made from our five performance measurement points to the British Telecom site failed, and only two out of 2976 requests failed to the Dell Host site.
These are the most reliable statistics that have been posted to date on a calendar month basis, and also the first time that a site running Windows has been placed top.
Most reliable and fastest hosting company sites during August
1st September, 2003
Many events that could adversely affect performance and reliability hit the hosting industry during August including Distributed Denial of Service Attacks, the Power Outage in the North East US and Canada, a much shorter outage in London, the Blaster Worm, the SoBig Virus, and a deluge of related mail from poorly written anti-virus programs.
August 1st - August 31st
Remarkably the numbers of failed requests to hosting company sites did not rise significantly during the month; a testament to the durability of the Internet. However this hid some big variations:
Most reliable and fastest hosting company sites during July
7th August, 2003
Netcraft measure and makes available the response times of fifty two leading hosting providers' sites The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from four separate points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.
A summary showing the ten providers whose sites experienced the fewest failed requests and the fasest connection times during July is shown above.
Most reliable and fastest hosting company sites during June
8th July, 2003
Netcraft measure and makes available the response times of fifty leading hosting providers' sites The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from four separate points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.
A summary showing the ten providers whose sites experienced the fewest failed requests and the fasest connection times during June is shown above. 31 of the 50 providers went through the month without suffering an outage.