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.datapipe.net DataPipe FreeBSD    0.000  0.068 0.037 0.075 0.075 2453 2 2 www.swishmail.com Swishmail FreeBSD    0.000  0.087 0.063 0.126 0.321 110 17 3 www.rackspace.com Rackspace Linux  0:00:00  1.775  0.089 0.081 0.163 0.163 - 0 4 www.westhost.com www.westhost.com Linux    0.000  0.114 0.070 0.144 0.316 68 16 5 www.hostdime.com www.hostdime.com Linux    0.000  0.186 0.106 0.263 0.652 99 26 6 www.memset.com www.memset.com Linux    0.000  0.186 0.067 0.135 0.135 - 0 7 www.hosting4less.com Hosting 4 Less Linux  0:00:00  0.298  0.190 0.121 0.245 0.610 88 25 8 www.kattare.com Kattare Internet Services Linux    0.000  0.198 0.155 0.311 0.904 76 28 9 www.powweb.com www.powweb.com Linux  0:06:22  11.219  0.203 0.003 1.880 1.885 1639 20 10 www.verio.net Verio Linux  0:00:00  0.595  0.211 0.060 0.121 0.121 - 0 11 www.serverintellect.com Server Intellect Windows Server 2008    0.000  0.212 0.063 0.129 0.259 116 18 12 www.nyi.net New York Internet FreeBSD    0.000  0.263 0.063 0.132 0.331 110 18 13 www.theplanet.com www.theplanet.com Windows Server 2003    0.000  0.264 0.075 0.322 0.913 72 37 14 www.softlayer.com Softlayer Technologies Inc unknown  0:00:00  0.299  0.274 0.064 0.129 0.385 197 66 15 www.pair.com Pair Networks FreeBSD    0.000  0.279 0.063 0.316 0.517 89 20 16 www.ipowerweb.com www.ipowerweb.com F5 Big-IP    0.000  0.281 0.100 0.382 0.584 115 15 17 www.servint.net ServInt Linux    0.000  0.283 0.076 0.163 0.360 111 16 18 www.green.ch www.green.ch F5 Big-IP    0.000  0.298 0.068 0.852 1.057 108 31 19 www.reliableservers.com ReliableServers.com FreeBSD  0:00:00  0.747  0.309 0.069 0.146 0.216 89 5 20 www.seeweb.it www.seeweb.it Linux    0.000  0.322 0.129 0.262 0.267 160 9 21 www.inetu.net INetU unknown    0.000  0.333 0.090 0.187 0.290 159 12 22 www.webair.com www.webair.com FreeBSD    0.000  0.349 0.063 0.141 0.906 38 30 23 www.iomarthosting.com Iomart plc. Linux  0:00:00  0.298  0.350 0.085 0.176 0.328 51 24 24 www.singlehop.com www.singlehop.com Linux    0.000  0.357 0.067 0.138 0.466 90 32 25 www.vi.net Virtual Internet Linux    0.000  0.363 0.094 0.249 0.533 75 17 26 www.hostbasket.com Hostbasket Windows Server 2008    0.000  0.371 0.082 0.171 0.171 - 0 27 one.com One.com Linux    0.000  0.372 0.087 0.175 0.175 - 0 28 www.uk2.net www.uk2.net Linux  0:10:38  11.586  0.418 0.090 0.185 0.373 49 15 29 www.navisite.com www.navisite.com Linux    0.000  0.464 0.071 0.570 0.763 95 15 30 www.web.com www.web.com Windows 2000    0.000  0.502 0.075 0.401 1.109 77 41 31 www.netcetera.co.uk www.netcetera.co.uk Windows Server 2003    0.000  0.527 0.092 0.218 0.496 80 17 32 www.iWeb8.com iWeb Technologies Linux    0.000  0.577 0.090 0.179 0.179 - 0 33 www.hosteurope.de www.hosteurope.de Linux    0.000  0.708 0.075 0.315 0.614 126 47 34 www.hostway.com www.hostway.com Linux    0.000  0.790 0.067 0.084 0.090 491 19 35 www.xinnet.com www.xinnet.com F5 Big-IP  0:00:00  7.660  0.914 0.236 0.468 0.468 - - 36 www.34sp.com 34SP.com Ltd. Linux  0:00:00  0.297  1.154 0.065 0.741 0.754 263 11 37 www.acens.com www.acens.com Linux  0:00:00  1.770  1.155 0.097 0.390 0.717 66 22 38 www.dinahosting.com www.dinahosting.com Linux    0.000  1.212 0.096 0.193 0.193 - 0 39 www.aruba.it www.aruba.it Windows Server 2003    0.000  2.214 0.084 0.168 0.630 105 57 40 www.godaddy.com GoDaddy.com Inc Windows Server 2003  0:00:00  0.446  2.245 0.099 0.210 1.078 248 187 41 www.aplus.net www.aplus.net Linux    0.000  4.447 0.083 1.423 1.526 145 19 Report from 20-Nov-2009 22:26 till 21-Nov-2009 22:23 Generated on 21-Nov-2009 22:26

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.