Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in November 2009
| Rank |
Company site |
OS |
Outage
hh:mm:ss |
Failed
Req% |
DNS |
Connect |
First
byte |
Total |
| 1 |
Swishmail |
FreeBSD |
0:00:00 |
0.025 |
0.391 |
0.020 |
0.040 |
0.104 |
| 2 |
Verio |
Linux |
0:00:00 |
0.025 |
0.380 |
0.087 |
0.176 |
0.176 |
| 3 |
www.hosteurope.de |
Linux |
0:00:00 |
0.030 |
0.294 |
0.116 |
0.614 |
1.066 |
| 4 |
www.dinahosting.com |
Linux |
0:00:00 |
0.030 |
0.488 |
0.121 |
0.244 |
0.244 |
| 5 |
DataPipe |
unknown |
0:00:00 |
0.035 |
0.265 |
0.023 |
0.047 |
0.047 |
| 6 |
iWeb Technologies |
Linux |
0:00:00 |
0.035 |
0.164 |
0.041 |
0.084 |
0.084 |
| 7 |
www.hostway.com |
Linux |
0:00:00 |
0.040 |
0.608 |
0.006 |
0.012 |
0.037 |
| 8 |
New York Internet |
FreeBSD |
0:00:00 |
0.040 |
0.385 |
0.019 |
0.044 |
0.113 |
| 9 |
www.netcetera.co.uk |
Windows Server 2003 |
0:00:00 |
0.040 |
0.453 |
0.076 |
0.155 |
0.363 |
| 10 |
www.aplus.net |
Linux |
0:00:00 |
0.045 |
0.327 |
0.057 |
0.267 |
0.301 |
In November,
Swishmail and
Verio had the most reliable hosting company sites.
Swishmail is a New York based company that specialises in business
email hosting. The company also offers several web hosting plans, all of which include access to a webmail client and shared calendars.
Verio is an NTT Communications company, using a distributed network of OEM and
viaVerio channel partners to provide web hosting and
SaaS applications. In September, Verio was named as the winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Awards program.
Six of the most reliable hosting company sites in November were running Linux, including Verio, while both Swishmail and New York Internet were using FreeBSD. Netcetera provided the only Windows presence in November, with its site being served by Microsoft IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003.
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.
