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  11.219  0.713 0.003 1.809 1.814 1640 20 2 www.hostway.com www.hostway.com Linux    0.000  0.696 0.020 0.037 0.045 447 19 3 www.datapipe.net DataPipe FreeBSD    0.000  1.166 0.037 0.076 0.076 2541 2 4 www.verio.net Verio Linux  0:00:00  0.595  0.370 0.059 0.118 0.118 - 0 5 www.swishmail.com Swishmail FreeBSD    0.000  0.249 0.062 0.126 0.321 110 17 6 www.pair.com Pair Networks FreeBSD    0.000  0.350 0.063 0.129 0.318 91 20 7 www.nyi.net New York Internet FreeBSD    0.000  0.247 0.063 0.132 0.327 110 18 8 www.serverintellect.com Server Intellect Windows Server 2008    0.000  0.125 0.063 0.129 0.263 116 18 9 www.softlayer.com Softlayer Technologies Inc unknown  0:00:00  0.299  0.198 0.063 0.130 0.388 195 66 10 www.reliableservers.com ReliableServers.com FreeBSD    0.000  0.368 0.063 0.135 0.199 89 5 11 www.webair.com www.webair.com FreeBSD    0.000  0.093 0.064 0.142 0.924 38 30 12 www.34sp.com 34SP.com Ltd. Linux  0:00:00  0.297  1.214 0.066 0.573 0.586 263 11 13 www.singlehop.com www.singlehop.com Linux    0.000  0.242 0.067 0.138 0.463 90 32 14 www.hosteurope.de www.hosteurope.de Linux    0.000  0.188 0.067 0.281 0.554 126 47 15 www.green.ch www.green.ch F5 Big-IP    0.000  0.291 0.068 0.937 1.153 108 31 16 www.westhost.com www.westhost.com Linux    0.000  0.161 0.070 0.144 0.316 68 16 17 www.theplanet.com www.theplanet.com Windows Server 2003    0.000  0.413 0.070 0.308 0.872 71 37 18 www.navisite.com www.navisite.com Linux    0.000  0.159 0.070 0.565 0.757 95 15 19 www.servint.net ServInt Linux    0.000  0.278 0.072 0.153 0.342 111 16 20 www.web.com www.web.com Windows 2000    0.000  0.339 0.075 0.428 1.066 77 41 21 www.rackspace.com Rackspace Linux  0:00:00  1.775  0.221 0.075 0.152 0.152 - 0 22 www.aruba.it www.aruba.it Windows Server 2003    0.000  2.481 0.082 0.169 0.638 105 57 23 www.iomarthosting.com Iomart plc. Linux  0:00:00  0.298  0.491 0.082 0.172 0.345 52 24 24 one.com One.com Linux    0.000  0.278 0.084 0.168 0.168 - 0 25 www.hostbasket.com Hostbasket Windows Server 2008    0.000  0.548 0.084 0.176 0.176 - 0 26 www.aplus.net www.aplus.net Linux    0.000  1.362 0.085 1.433 1.541 145 19 27 www.iWeb8.com iWeb Technologies Linux    0.000  0.437 0.088 0.177 0.177 - 0 28 www.acens.com www.acens.com Linux  0:00:00  1.770  2.208 0.089 0.396 0.735 66 22 29 www.uk2.net www.uk2.net Linux  0:10:38  11.586  0.454 0.090 0.185 0.499 46 15 30 www.inetu.net INetU unknown    0.000  0.315 0.090 0.188 0.290 159 12 31 www.netcetera.co.uk www.netcetera.co.uk Windows Server 2003    0.000  0.198 0.091 0.184 0.458 80 17 32 www.vi.net Virtual Internet Linux    0.000  0.248 0.093 0.243 0.525 75 17 33 www.ipowerweb.com www.ipowerweb.com F5 Big-IP    0.000  0.560 0.097 0.407 0.602 113 15 34 www.memset.com www.memset.com Linux    0.000  0.094 0.097 0.196 0.196 - 0 35 www.dinahosting.com www.dinahosting.com Linux    0.000  1.152 0.101 0.204 0.204 - 0 36 www.hostdime.com www.hostdime.com Linux    0.000  0.575 0.116 0.284 0.707 99 26 37 www.hosting4less.com Hosting 4 Less Linux  0:00:00  0.298  0.279 0.118 0.242 0.603 88 25 38 www.seeweb.it www.seeweb.it Linux    0.000  0.275 0.131 0.264 0.269 160 9 39 www.godaddy.com GoDaddy.com Inc Windows Server 2003  0:00:00  0.446  0.299 0.132 0.280 1.373 248 187 40 www.kattare.com Kattare Internet Services Linux    0.000  0.158 0.155 0.312 0.846 76 28 41 www.xinnet.com www.xinnet.com F5 Big-IP  0:00:00  7.660  0.588 0.231 0.465 0.465 - - Report from 20-Nov-2009 21:25 till 21-Nov-2009 21:22 Generated on 21-Nov-2009 21:33

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.