Netcraft Hosting Provider Performance Monitoring

Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of 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.

Hosting Providers sites ordered by average DNS time over the last 1 day, updated every 15 mins. 42 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.netcetera.co.uk Netcetera Windows Server 2012  0:00:00  0.000  0.054 0.073 0.147 0.293 148 22 2 www.datapipe.net Datapipe FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.000  0.072 0.016 0.034 0.052 478 9 3 www.datacenterscanada.com Data Centers Canada Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.078 0.074 0.163 0.350 99 18 4 www.serverintellect.com Server Intellect Windows Server 2008  0:00:00  0.000  0.083 0.092 0.184 0.465 95 27 5 www.serverstack.com ServerStack Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.084 0.065 0.134 0.134 - 0 6 www.iomarthosting.com Iomart plc. Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.100 0.082 0.175 0.325 155 23 7 www.qubenet.net Qube Managed Services Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.107 0.045 0.090 0.090 - 0 8 www.memset.com Memset Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.108 0.078 0.152 0.297 225 33 9 www.swishmail.com Swishmail FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.000  0.110 0.061 0.122 0.162 415 17 10 www.superb.net Superb Internet FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.380  0.110 0.106 0.670 1.165 111 55 11 www.serverbeach.com www.serverbeach.com Linux  0:23:11  6.307  0.112 0.019 0.665 0.715 973 49 12 www.peer1.com www.peer1.com Linux  0:09:04  8.571  0.115 0.024 0.836 0.951 929 107 13 www.nyi.net New York Internet FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.000  0.125 0.064 0.126 0.393 130 35 14 www.inetu.net INetU Windows Server 2008  0:00:00  0.000  0.125 0.069 0.230 0.444 131 28 15 krystal.co.uk krystal.co.uk Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.126 0.081 0.483 0.712 144 33 16 www.aruba.it www.aruba.it Windows Server 2003  0:00:00  0.380  0.128 0.100 0.202 1.218 56 57 17 www.iWeb8.com iWeb Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.130 0.072 0.143 0.143 - 0 18 www.hosting4less.com Hosting 4 Less Linux  0:00:00  0.381  0.144 0.099 0.201 0.358 163 26 19 www.uk2.net www.uk2.net Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.146 0.076 0.154 0.241 287 25 20 www.multacom.com Multacom FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.000  0.148 0.101 0.203 0.529 50 16 21 client.yesuphost.com YesUpHost Linux  0:00:00  0.190  0.148 0.074 0.169 0.169 - - 22 www.logicworks.net Logicworks Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.151 0.082 0.628 0.774 205 30 23 www.colocationamerica.com Colocation America Linux  0:00:00  0.285  0.153 0.101 0.831 1.214 109 42 24 www.poundhost.com PoundHost Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.158 0.076 0.186 0.414 156 35 25 www.vi.net Virtual Internet Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.159 0.073 0.318 0.446 209 27 26 www.leaseweb.com LeaseWeb Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.159 0.075 0.400 0.400 - 0 27 www.kattare.com Kattare Internet Services Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.168 0.110 0.220 0.458 97 23 28 www.reliableservers.com ReliableServers.com Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.175 0.088 0.162 0.211 219 11 29 www.dinahosting.com www.dinahosting.com Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.178 0.096 0.194 0.194 - 0 30 www.choopa.com www.choopa.com unknown  0:00:00  0.000  0.181 0.081 0.157 0.206 258 13 31 www.rackspace.com Rackspace F5 BIG-IP  0:00:00  0.000  0.183 0.066 0.149 1.158 52 52 32 www.midphase.com Midphase Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.193 0.106 0.216 0.331 190 22 33 www.webair.com Webair Internet Development FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.381  0.199 0.077 0.150 0.327 206 36 34 www.cwcs.co.uk www.cwcs.co.uk Linux  0:00:00  0.285  0.203 0.157 0.244 0.527 142 40 35 www.codero.com Codero Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.215 0.080 0.262 0.515 329 83 36 www.pair.com Pair Networks FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.000  0.217 0.074 0.150 0.467 81 26 37 www.singlehop.com www.singlehop.com Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.219 0.084 0.819 1.191 227 84 38 www.hyve.co.uk Hyve Managed Hosting Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.226 0.073 0.144 0.145 2767 3 39 www.xilo.net XILO Communications Ltd. Linux  0:00:00  0.191  0.226 0.074 0.333 0.489 120 19 40 one.com One.com Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.245 0.087 0.187 0.187 - 0 41 www.godaddy.com GoDaddy.com Inc Windows Server 2008  0:00:00  0.475  0.247 0.105 0.373 0.797 173 73 42 www.bigstep.com Bigstep Linux  0:00:00  0.380  0.265 0.070 0.141 0.141 - 0 Report from 24-May-2013 10:00 till 25-May-2013 09:55 Generated on 25-May-2013 10:03

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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If you are reseaching prospective hosting locations, or performing competitor analysis and would like to buy bespoke performance monitoring of sites of your choice, or access to historical data, please mail us at sales@netcraft.com

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, Vancouver/Peer1, Phoenix/GoDaddy, Italy/Aruba, Romania/Hostway, Zurich/Qube and Amsterdam/Webair. 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 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.

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.