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.rackspace.com Rackspace Linux  0:00:00  1.778  0.563 0.025 0.052 0.052 - 0 2 www.datapipe.net DataPipe FreeBSD    0.000  0.436 0.027 0.056 0.056 2523 2 3 www.hostway.com www.hostway.com Linux    0.000  0.814 0.014 0.030 0.059 579 19 4 www.reliableservers.com ReliableServers.com FreeBSD  0:08:26  1.198  0.715 0.028 0.064 0.092 90 5 5 www.inetu.net INetU unknown    0.000  0.609 0.027 0.061 0.094 159 12 6 www.iWeb8.com iWeb Technologies Linux    0.000  0.315 0.065 0.130 0.130 - 0 7 www.servint.net ServInt Linux    0.000  1.195 0.029 0.064 0.140 111 16 8 www.swishmail.com Swishmail FreeBSD    0.000  0.083 0.027 0.056 0.142 109 17 9 www.memset.com www.memset.com Linux    0.000  1.111 0.083 0.167 0.167 - 0 10 www.nyi.net New York Internet FreeBSD    0.000  0.619 0.028 0.063 0.172 109 18 11 www.verio.net Verio Linux  0:00:00  0.596  0.686 0.091 0.183 0.183 - 0 12 www.seeweb.it www.seeweb.it Linux    0.000  0.688 0.104 0.214 0.222 161 9 13 www.pair.com Pair Networks FreeBSD    0.000  0.100 0.045 0.108 0.234 87 20 14 www.serverintellect.com Server Intellect Windows Server 2008    0.000  0.564 0.054 0.111 0.239 116 18 15 one.com One.com Linux    0.000  0.200 0.119 0.239 0.239 - 0 16 www.dinahosting.com www.dinahosting.com Linux    0.000  0.368 0.125 0.250 0.250 - 0 17 www.hostbasket.com Hostbasket Windows Server 2008    0.000  0.272 0.127 0.261 0.261 - 0 18 www.hosting4less.com Hosting 4 Less Linux  0:00:00  0.299  0.099 0.051 0.105 0.265 90 25 19 www.iomarthosting.com Iomart plc. Linux  0:00:00  0.300  0.323 0.091 0.188 0.298 49 24 20 www.uk2.net www.uk2.net Linux  0:10:38  11.602  0.722 0.073 0.152 0.328 53 15 21 www.ipowerweb.com www.ipowerweb.com F5 Big-IP    0.000  0.721 0.037 0.255 0.331 115 15 22 www.softlayer.com Softlayer Technologies Inc unknown  0:00:00  0.299  1.180 0.055 0.113 0.339 196 66 23 www.singlehop.com www.singlehop.com Linux    0.000  0.626 0.050 0.103 0.381 90 32 24 www.westhost.com www.westhost.com Linux    0.000  1.200 0.078 0.160 0.395 67 16 25 www.netcetera.co.uk www.netcetera.co.uk Windows Server 2003    0.000  0.169 0.076 0.165 0.396 80 17 26 www.godaddy.com GoDaddy.com Inc Windows Server 2003  0:00:00  0.447  0.562 0.050 0.123 0.492 247 188 27 www.hostdime.com www.hostdime.com Linux    0.000  0.193 0.087 0.224 0.496 99 26 28 www.vi.net Virtual Internet Linux    0.000  0.151 0.088 0.255 0.519 75 17 29 www.xinnet.com www.xinnet.com F5 Big-IP  0:00:00  8.475  1.357 0.266 0.538 0.538 - - 30 www.theplanet.com www.theplanet.com Windows Server 2003    0.000  0.704 0.054 0.231 0.612 72 37 31 www.34sp.com 34SP.com Ltd. Linux  0:00:00  0.299  0.264 0.101 0.550 0.629 261 11 32 www.navisite.com www.navisite.com Linux    0.000  1.237 0.035 0.530 0.632 95 15 33 www.kattare.com Kattare Internet Services Linux    0.000  0.124 0.116 0.235 0.640 77 28 34 www.web.com www.web.com Windows 2000    0.000  1.145 0.036 0.338 0.673 77 41 35 www.webair.com www.webair.com FreeBSD    0.000  1.128 0.030 0.074 0.817 39 30 36 www.hosteurope.de www.hosteurope.de Linux    0.000  0.452 0.126 0.454 0.883 125 47 37 www.aruba.it www.aruba.it Windows Server 2003    0.000  0.420 0.144 0.290 0.915 105 57 38 www.green.ch www.green.ch F5 Big-IP    0.000  0.668 0.121 0.981 1.346 107 31 39 www.aplus.net www.aplus.net Linux    0.000  0.561 0.056 1.385 1.513 145 19 40 www.powweb.com www.powweb.com Linux    0.000  0.177 0.004 1.799 1.808 1632 20 41 www.acens.com www.acens.com Linux  0:00:00  2.074  0.497 0.449 1.067 2.374 58 23 Report from 21-Nov-2009 00:50 till 22-Nov-2009 00:46 Generated on 22-Nov-2009 00:55

Note: Outage times display the minimum outage time which may understate each outage by up to 15 minutes, which is the sampling frequency.

If you represent a hosting company and would like to be included in the table, we charge 1200 GBP per annum for inclusion. Please mail us at sales@netcraft.com if you would like to be included.

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, 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.