Hosting Providers sites ordered by average total http 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.hostway.com www.hostway.com Linux    0.000  0.479 0.012 0.026 0.050 440 19 2 www.datapipe.net DataPipe FreeBSD    0.000  1.233 0.037 0.074 0.075 2482 2 3 www.rackspace.com Rackspace Linux  0:00:00  1.783  0.064 0.050 0.100 0.101 - 0 4 www.memset.com www.memset.com Linux    0.000  0.105 0.075 0.152 0.152 - 0 5 www.inetu.net INetU unknown    0.000  1.084 0.045 0.098 0.154 159 12 6 www.reliableservers.com ReliableServers.com FreeBSD    0.000  0.256 0.048 0.105 0.155 89 5 7 www.iWeb8.com iWeb Technologies Linux    0.000  0.490 0.085 0.172 0.172 - 0 8 www.hostbasket.com Hostbasket Windows Server 2008    0.000  0.350 0.084 0.175 0.175 - 0 9 www.dinahosting.com www.dinahosting.com Linux    0.000  1.106 0.096 0.192 0.192 - 0 10 one.com One.com Linux    0.000  0.098 0.096 0.194 0.194 - 0 11 www.verio.net Verio Linux  0:00:00  0.598  1.313 0.103 0.206 0.206 - 0 12 www.seeweb.it www.seeweb.it Linux    0.000  1.185 0.096 0.202 0.212 159 9 13 www.servint.net ServInt Linux    0.000  4.221 0.050 0.108 0.251 110 16 14 www.swishmail.com Swishmail FreeBSD    0.000  0.106 0.049 0.098 0.252 110 17 15 www.nyi.net New York Internet FreeBSD    0.000  3.112 0.049 0.105 0.293 110 18 16 www.pair.com Pair Networks FreeBSD    0.000  0.232 0.057 0.118 0.297 91 20 17 www.iomarthosting.com Iomart plc. Linux  0:00:00  0.601  0.353 0.083 0.173 0.307 55 24 18 www.serverintellect.com Server Intellect Windows Server 2008    0.000  2.145 0.080 0.163 0.333 115 18 19 www.uk2.net www.uk2.net Linux  0:10:38  12.017  1.301 0.071 0.147 0.334 46 15 20 www.ipowerweb.com www.ipowerweb.com F5 Big-IP    0.000  0.141 0.060 0.246 0.370 113 15 21 www.netcetera.co.uk www.netcetera.co.uk Windows Server 2003    0.000  1.209 0.074 0.151 0.378 80 17 22 www.vi.net Virtual Internet Linux    0.000  1.216 0.073 0.204 0.433 75 17 23 www.singlehop.com www.singlehop.com Linux    0.000  1.298 0.068 0.139 0.474 89 32 24 www.softlayer.com Softlayer Technologies Inc unknown  0:00:00  0.300  0.189 0.079 0.163 0.503 192 66 25 www.westhost.com www.westhost.com Linux    0.000  2.632 0.103 0.212 0.516 67 16 26 www.xinnet.com www.xinnet.com F5 Big-IP  0:00:00  6.877  2.387 0.274 0.551 0.551 - - 27 www.hosting4less.com Hosting 4 Less Linux  0:00:00  0.300  0.198 0.100 0.205 0.557 87 25 28 www.34sp.com 34SP.com Ltd. Linux  0:00:00  0.300  0.545 0.077 0.518 0.570 263 11 29 www.navisite.com www.navisite.com Linux    0.000  2.228 0.056 0.537 0.704 95 15 30 www.acens.com www.acens.com Linux  0:00:00  1.786  1.145 0.097 0.382 0.711 66 22 31 www.hostdime.com www.hostdime.com Linux    0.000  0.338 0.113 0.276 0.712 100 26 32 www.kattare.com Kattare Internet Services Linux    0.000  0.201 0.134 0.271 0.715 76 28 33 www.hosteurope.de www.hosteurope.de Linux    0.000  1.224 0.085 0.419 0.794 126 47 34 www.theplanet.com www.theplanet.com Windows Server 2003    0.000  2.320 0.074 0.275 0.820 71 37 35 www.webair.com www.webair.com FreeBSD    0.000  0.117 0.052 0.119 0.830 38 30 36 www.aruba.it www.aruba.it Windows Server 2003    0.000  1.171 0.082 0.355 0.910 106 57 37 www.web.com www.web.com Windows 2000    0.000  0.156 0.063 0.398 0.971 77 41 38 www.godaddy.com GoDaddy.com Inc Windows Server 2003  0:00:00  0.448  2.102 0.104 0.215 1.058 250 187 39 www.green.ch www.green.ch F5 Big-IP    0.000  1.448 0.086 0.952 1.215 107 31 40 www.aplus.net www.aplus.net Linux    0.000  3.475 0.090 1.455 1.559 145 19 41 www.powweb.com www.powweb.com Linux  0:06:22  11.250  1.162 0.008 1.802 1.817 1632 20 Report from 20-Nov-2009 20:35 till 21-Nov-2009 20:27 Generated on 21-Nov-2009 20:39

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.