| Rank | Performance Graph | OS | Outage hh:mm:ss |
Failed Req% |
DNS | Connect | First byte |
Total |
| 1 | Datapipe | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.090 | 0.020 | 0.039 | 0.059 |
| 2 | Qube Managed Services | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.109 | 0.041 | 0.083 | 0.083 |
| 3 | Hyve Managed Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.257 | 0.064 | 0.126 | 0.127 |
| 4 | Netcetera | Windows Server 2012 | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.056 | 0.070 | 0.156 | 0.292 |
| 5 | Swishmail | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.133 | 0.073 | 0.144 | 0.189 |
| 6 | Bigstep | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.011 | 0.314 | 0.065 | 0.137 | 0.228 |
| 7 | www.uk2.net | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.011 | 0.152 | 0.069 | 0.142 | 0.224 |
| 8 | Server Intellect | Windows Server 2012 | 0:00:00 | 0.011 | 0.089 | 0.099 | 0.635 | 0.984 |
| 9 | Midphase | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.015 | 0.262 | 0.120 | 0.243 | 0.444 |
| 10 | Anexia | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.019 | 0.127 | 0.093 | 0.436 | 0.717 |
All of the top five hosting company sites started the year with only two failed requests each. The average connection times were used to break the tie for first place.
Managed services provider Datapipe had January’s most reliable hosting company site, with two failed requests and an average connection time of 20ms. Datapipe was the fastest within the top 10, and second overall. Datapipe provides managed enterprise cloud services via its Stratosphere cloud computing platform; delivered from Datapipe’s global network of data centres in conjunction with Amazon Web Services. Datapipe acquired Newvem in September which has combined its managed AWS with a cloud optimisation platform. Datapipe has not had a single outage since 2006, and is only two months away from having 8 years of 100% continuous uptime.
In second place is last month’s number one — Qube Managed Services, followed by UK based Hyve Managed Hosting in third place with average connection times of 41ms and 64ms respectively. Qube’s hosting services are delivered from data centre facilities in London, New York and Zurich. This month is Qube’s fifth consecutive month in the top 10.
Hyve Managed Hosting, in third place, offers a 100% network uptime guarantee by utilising multiple Tier 1 backbone providers and peering with multiple networks in multiple global locations. In December Hyve launched SecureShare which allows its customers to host their own encrypted file sharing servers which are protected behind its hardware firewalls, IPS systems and DDoS defense devices provided as part of its SecureCloud services.
Elsewhere in the full table this month Codero received $8M in financing from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Farnam Street Financial. Codero is planning to deploy new data centres across the U.S. and Europe and expand its hosting portfolio to serve more customers.
FreeBSD powered Datapipe‘s site, at the top of the table, and also corporate email services provider Swishmail in 5th place. The remaining hosting company sites ran Linux except for two running Windows Server — Netcetera in 4th place and Server Intellect in 8th place.
Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of around forty 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.
From a customer’s point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on hosting companies’ own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why we choose to rank our table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage. In the event the number of failed requests are equal then sites are ranked by average connection times.
Information on the measurement process and current measurements is available.