Hosting Providers sites ordered by average connect time over the last 1 day, updated every 15 mins. 41 sites
Click on a column heading to sort by that column, click twice to reverse order. Click the site name to see graphs of site performance. FAQ Rank Performance graph Company site OS Outage hh:mm:ss Failed Req% DNS Connect First byte Total Kb/s size(K) 1 www.powweb.com www.powweb.com Linux  0:06:22  11.234  0.282 0.010 1.812 1.823 1645 20 2 www.hostway.com www.hostway.com Linux    0.000  0.655 0.015 0.032 0.036 443 19 3 www.datapipe.net DataPipe FreeBSD    0.000  0.352 0.037 0.076 0.077 2530 2 4 www.netcetera.co.uk www.netcetera.co.uk Windows Server 2003    0.000  0.267 0.062 0.126 0.313 80 17 5 www.uk2.net www.uk2.net Linux  0:10:38  12.000  0.374 0.063 0.130 0.260 47 15 6 www.vi.net Virtual Internet Linux    0.000  0.339 0.063 0.188 0.382 75 17 7 www.34sp.com 34SP.com Ltd. Linux  0:00:00  0.299  1.115 0.065 0.518 0.530 264 11 8 www.memset.com www.memset.com Linux    0.000  0.153 0.066 0.252 0.252 - 0 9 www.green.ch www.green.ch F5 Big-IP    0.000  0.411 0.068 0.870 1.076 108 31 10 www.seeweb.it www.seeweb.it Linux    0.000  0.233 0.073 0.151 0.156 160 9 11 www.hosteurope.de www.hosteurope.de Linux    0.000  0.202 0.073 0.329 0.625 126 47 12 www.hostbasket.com Hostbasket Windows Server 2008    0.000  0.474 0.082 0.179 0.179 - 0 13 www.aruba.it www.aruba.it Windows Server 2003    0.000  1.159 0.082 0.170 0.754 106 57 14 www.reliableservers.com ReliableServers.com FreeBSD    0.000  0.223 0.082 0.173 0.256 89 5 15 www.iomarthosting.com Iomart plc. Linux  0:00:00  0.598  0.164 0.083 0.172 0.281 55 24 16 www.swishmail.com Swishmail FreeBSD    0.000  0.155 0.086 0.173 0.487 109 17 17 www.iWeb8.com iWeb Technologies Linux    0.000  0.379 0.087 0.175 0.175 - 0 18 www.nyi.net New York Internet FreeBSD    0.000  0.358 0.088 0.182 0.508 109 18 19 www.aplus.net www.aplus.net Linux    0.000  2.522 0.088 1.553 1.655 145 19 20 www.webair.com www.webair.com FreeBSD    0.000  0.144 0.089 0.194 0.836 38 30 21 www.acens.com www.acens.com Linux  0:00:00  1.783  2.286 0.089 0.430 0.758 66 22 22 one.com One.com Linux    0.000  0.178 0.089 0.178 0.178 - 0 23 www.inetu.net INetU unknown    0.000  0.589 0.090 0.187 0.291 159 12 24 www.servint.net ServInt Linux    0.000  0.463 0.091 0.196 0.452 110 16 25 www.pair.com Pair Networks FreeBSD    0.000  0.218 0.093 0.190 1.201 89 20 26 www.rackspace.com Rackspace Linux  0:00:00  1.780  0.138 0.095 0.191 0.191 - 0 27 www.navisite.com www.navisite.com Linux    0.000  0.306 0.095 0.622 0.902 94 15 28 www.dinahosting.com www.dinahosting.com Linux    0.000  1.157 0.096 0.193 0.193 - 0 29 www.singlehop.com www.singlehop.com Linux    0.000  0.305 0.099 0.201 0.625 89 32 30 www.ipowerweb.com www.ipowerweb.com F5 Big-IP    0.000  0.284 0.100 0.388 0.589 113 15 31 www.hostdime.com www.hostdime.com Linux    0.000  0.265 0.107 0.264 0.607 99 26 32 www.web.com www.web.com Windows 2000    0.000  0.557 0.109 0.448 1.331 77 41 33 www.softlayer.com Softlayer Technologies Inc unknown  0:00:00  0.299  0.238 0.112 0.227 0.686 192 66 34 www.serverintellect.com Server Intellect Windows Server 2008    0.000  0.265 0.113 0.225 0.448 116 18 35 www.theplanet.com www.theplanet.com Windows Server 2003    0.000  0.415 0.114 0.353 1.181 71 37 36 www.hosting4less.com Hosting 4 Less Linux  0:00:00  0.299  0.217 0.118 0.240 0.601 87 25 37 www.verio.net Verio Linux  0:00:00  0.597  0.483 0.122 0.244 0.244 - 0 38 www.westhost.com www.westhost.com Linux    0.000  0.359 0.127 0.258 0.620 68 16 39 www.godaddy.com GoDaddy.com Inc Windows Server 2003  0:00:00  0.448  0.226 0.127 0.327 1.352 250 187 40 www.kattare.com Kattare Internet Services Linux    0.000  0.159 0.168 0.324 0.851 76 28 41 www.xinnet.com www.xinnet.com F5 Big-IP  0:00:00  6.867  0.591 0.288 0.578 0.578 - - Report from 20-Nov-2009 20:45 till 21-Nov-2009 20:37 Generated on 21-Nov-2009 20:49

Note: Outage times display the minimum outage time which may understate each outage by up to 15 minutes, which is the sampling frequency.

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Interpreting the Tables

Using the performance of a hosting provider's own site to determine the performance of the hosting companies network, is only indicative. By default the sites are ranked in order of failed requests and time to connect, shortest first, in order to give the clearest indication of network capacity and congestion, with the least impact from the performance of the companies' own web servers, though it is possible to sort by any column by clicking on the column heading.

Presently our performance collectors are located at London/DXI Networks, New York/New York Internet, Pennsylvania/INetU-2, Virginia/Rackspace, San Jose/Datapipe, Phoenix/GoDaddy and Italy/Aruba. These companies have an advantage over the other companies listed in the table, as each of them have a collector in their own datacenter.

Companies located in the US have an advantage over companies in the rest of the world as more of the collectors are located there, and companies in the Far East are at a disadvantage as we do not currently have a performance collector in the region.

Companies using a caching system such as Akamai would have a particular advantage as the response to our request would come from the Akamai server closest to each performance collector. However at the present time none of the monitored sites seem to be using one of these caching/content distribution networks.

If you are using the table as a guide when choosing where to locate a dedicated or collocated server, remember that connection times fluctuate continually, and only hundredths of a second separate the top companies. Avoiding companies showing prolonged outages is likely to be a better strategy than necessarily going for the company with the fastest connection time.

Other factors including availability and quality of support, and price will also be important. If you are considering shared hosting then the load on the shared hosting system will likely be a greater constraint on the performance of your site than network connection time.

More information can be found in the FAQ.