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.
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.