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 first byte 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.datapipe.net Datapipe FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.000  0.065 0.016 0.034 0.052 476 9 2 www.qubenet.net Qube Managed Services Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.103 0.044 0.091 0.091 - 0 3 www.swishmail.com Swishmail FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.475  0.106 0.061 0.122 0.162 416 17 4 www.nyi.net New York Internet FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.380  0.114 0.064 0.129 0.393 131 35 5 www.serverstack.com ServerStack Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.072 0.065 0.134 0.134 - 0 6 www.bigstep.com Bigstep Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.263 0.069 0.140 0.140 - 0 7 www.webair.com Webair Internet Development FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.380  0.186 0.065 0.141 0.320 203 36 8 www.choopa.com www.choopa.com unknown  0:00:00  0.000  0.162 0.066 0.143 0.196 234 13 9 www.hyve.co.uk Hyve Managed Hosting Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.220 0.073 0.144 0.145 2703 3 10 www.iWeb8.com iWeb Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.120 0.072 0.144 0.144 - 0 11 www.netcetera.co.uk Netcetera Windows Server 2012  0:00:00  0.000  0.056 0.072 0.146 0.292 148 22 12 www.pair.com Pair Networks FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.000  0.195 0.074 0.148 0.465 81 26 13 www.reliableservers.com ReliableServers.com Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.180 0.078 0.151 0.198 231 11 14 www.memset.com Memset Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.118 0.078 0.152 0.301 220 33 15 www.rackspace.com Rackspace F5 BIG-IP  0:00:00  0.000  0.185 0.065 0.152 1.205 50 52 16 www.uk2.net www.uk2.net Linux  0:00:00  0.474  0.134 0.076 0.154 0.241 288 25 17 www.datacenterscanada.com Data Centers Canada Linux  0:00:00  0.285  0.066 0.074 0.165 0.364 93 18 18 www.iomarthosting.com Iomart plc. Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.103 0.082 0.177 0.324 158 23 19 client.yesuphost.com YesUpHost Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.136 0.084 0.179 0.179 - - 20 www.serverintellect.com Server Intellect Windows Server 2008  0:00:00  0.000  0.095 0.089 0.181 0.451 99 27 21 one.com One.com Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.250 0.088 0.192 0.192 - 0 22 www.dinahosting.com www.dinahosting.com Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.178 0.099 0.197 0.197 - 0 23 www.multacom.com Multacom FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.000  0.145 0.102 0.206 0.532 50 16 24 www.aruba.it www.aruba.it Windows Server 2003  0:00:00  0.758  0.138 0.098 0.214 1.270 54 57 25 www.hosting4less.com Hosting 4 Less Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.145 0.112 0.214 0.378 156 26 26 www.poundhost.com PoundHost Linux  0:00:00  0.380  0.186 0.076 0.219 0.445 157 35 27 www.kattare.com Kattare Internet Services Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.186 0.110 0.220 0.458 98 23 28 www.midphase.com Midphase Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.208 0.115 0.226 0.343 186 22 29 www.inetu.net INetU Windows Server 2008  0:00:00  0.000  0.109 0.071 0.231 0.452 127 28 30 www.cwcs.co.uk www.cwcs.co.uk Linux  0:00:00  0.570  0.225 0.148 0.235 0.522 140 40 31 www.codero.com Codero Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.208 0.080 0.261 0.513 329 83 32 www.vi.net Virtual Internet Linux  0:00:00  0.380  0.160 0.073 0.307 0.434 210 27 33 www.xilo.net XILO Communications Ltd. Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.210 0.075 0.369 0.526 120 19 34 www.godaddy.com GoDaddy.com Inc Windows Server 2008  0:00:00  0.475  0.276 0.106 0.382 0.801 175 73 35 www.leaseweb.com LeaseWeb Linux  0:00:00  0.285  0.179 0.074 0.418 0.418 - 0 36 krystal.co.uk krystal.co.uk Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.118 0.079 0.536 0.747 156 33 37 www.logicworks.net Logicworks Linux  0:00:00  0.285  0.159 0.073 0.641 0.781 212 30 38 www.superb.net Superb Internet FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.380  0.111 0.107 0.672 1.196 105 55 39 www.serverbeach.com www.serverbeach.com Linux  0:00:00  12.816  0.117 0.012 0.706 0.742 1378 49 40 www.singlehop.com www.singlehop.com Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.222 0.087 0.825 1.191 227 83 41 www.colocationamerica.com Colocation America Linux  0:00:00  0.000  0.148 0.101 0.835 1.219 109 42 42 www.peer1.com www.peer1.com Linux  0:00:00  16.094  0.165 0.016 1.689 1.789 1065 107 Report from 23-May-2013 13:40 till 24-May-2013 13:34 Generated on 24-May-2013 13:42

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.