Hosting Providers sites ordered by average DNS 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.memset.com www.memset.com Linux    0.000  0.118 0.077 0.155 0.155 - 0 2 www.ipowerweb.com www.ipowerweb.com F5 Big-IP    0.000  0.138 0.061 0.282 0.406 115 15 3 www.hosting4less.com Hosting 4 Less Linux  0:00:00  0.300  0.141 0.112 0.234 0.652 89 25 4 one.com One.com Linux    0.000  0.142 0.093 0.191 0.191 - 0 5 www.powweb.com www.powweb.com Linux  0:00:00  1.339  0.154 0.005 1.771 1.783 1637 20 6 www.theplanet.com www.theplanet.com Windows Server 2003    0.000  0.183 0.074 0.277 0.796 71 37 7 www.netcetera.co.uk www.netcetera.co.uk Windows Server 2003    0.000  0.184 0.075 0.153 0.381 80 17 8 www.kattare.com Kattare Internet Services Linux    0.000  0.187 0.129 0.259 0.717 76 28 9 www.singlehop.com www.singlehop.com Linux    0.000  0.225 0.068 0.142 0.473 90 32 10 www.hostdime.com www.hostdime.com Linux    0.000  0.309 0.127 0.304 0.797 99 26 11 www.iomarthosting.com Iomart plc. Linux  0:00:00  0.301  0.555 0.084 0.174 0.284 49 24 12 www.34sp.com 34SP.com Ltd. Linux  0:00:00  0.300  0.584 0.076 0.608 0.660 262 11 13 www.hostbasket.com Hostbasket Windows Server 2008    0.000  0.652 0.082 0.171 0.171 - 0 14 www.iWeb8.com iWeb Technologies Linux    0.000  0.822 0.087 0.174 0.174 - 0 15 www.datapipe.net DataPipe FreeBSD    0.000  1.074 0.037 0.075 0.076 2517 2 16 www.serverintellect.com Server Intellect Windows Server 2008    0.000  1.101 0.075 0.167 0.356 116 18 17 www.nyi.net New York Internet FreeBSD    0.000  1.106 0.049 0.104 0.263 109 18 18 www.inetu.net INetU unknown    0.000  1.110 0.046 0.099 0.155 159 12 19 www.vi.net Virtual Internet Linux    0.000  1.120 0.074 0.233 0.462 75 17 20 www.swishmail.com Swishmail FreeBSD    0.000  1.126 0.048 0.098 0.250 109 17 21 www.seeweb.it www.seeweb.it Linux    0.000  1.131 0.095 0.202 0.211 162 9 22 www.dinahosting.com www.dinahosting.com Linux    0.000  1.138 0.095 0.197 0.197 - 0 23 www.rackspace.com Rackspace Linux  0:00:00  1.783  1.168 0.048 0.103 0.103 - 0 24 www.uk2.net www.uk2.net Linux  0:10:38  11.634  1.174 0.072 0.150 0.343 53 15 25 www.hosteurope.de www.hosteurope.de Linux    0.000  1.186 0.090 0.409 0.781 126 47 26 www.acens.com www.acens.com Linux  0:00:00  2.080  1.195 0.234 0.645 1.384 61 22 27 www.godaddy.com GoDaddy.com Inc Windows Server 2003  0:00:00  0.448  1.231 0.107 0.219 1.065 248 187 28 www.verio.net Verio Linux  0:00:00  0.598  1.272 0.102 0.205 0.205 - 0 29 www.webair.com www.webair.com FreeBSD    0.000  1.281 0.051 0.122 0.923 39 30 30 www.green.ch www.green.ch F5 Big-IP    0.000  1.302 0.086 0.845 1.108 107 31 31 www.hostway.com www.hostway.com Linux    0.000  1.381 0.013 0.027 0.049 549 19 32 www.reliableservers.com ReliableServers.com FreeBSD  0:08:26  1.201  1.501 0.048 0.105 0.154 89 5 33 www.xinnet.com www.xinnet.com F5 Big-IP  0:00:00  8.097  1.764 0.268 0.539 0.539 - - 34 www.softlayer.com Softlayer Technologies Inc unknown  0:00:00  0.300  2.177 0.076 0.155 0.473 196 66 35 www.navisite.com www.navisite.com Linux    0.000  2.203 0.056 0.551 0.719 95 15 36 www.westhost.com www.westhost.com Linux    0.000  2.205 0.102 0.208 0.508 67 16 37 www.pair.com Pair Networks FreeBSD    0.000  2.212 0.057 0.119 0.299 88 20 38 www.aruba.it www.aruba.it Windows Server 2003    0.000  2.231 0.082 0.166 0.630 105 57 39 www.servint.net ServInt Linux    0.000  2.257 0.047 0.105 0.246 111 16 40 www.aplus.net www.aplus.net Linux    0.000  2.328 0.084 1.421 1.527 145 19 41 www.web.com www.web.com Windows 2000    0.000  3.221 0.064 0.885 1.458 77 41 Report from 21-Nov-2009 00:05 till 21-Nov-2009 23:57 Generated on 22-Nov-2009 00:09

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.