See full table
For the third month in a row, GoDaddy
has had the most reliable hosting company site. It responded to every
availability request made by Netcraft throughout October, with an
average connection time of just 7 milliseconds. This is the sixth time
this year that GoDaddy has featured in the top ten.
On 29 October, GoDaddy announced a new 'best-in-class' partner offer with AdAgility for customers of its GoDaddy Pro
programme. This additional feature allows web designers and developers
to take greater control over the advertising content on their sites.
Swishmail
has risen to second place for reliability this month. This is now its
third appearance in the top ten since January, with the last
appearance—in July—placing
it tenth. Like GoDaddy, Swishmail responded to all of the availability
requests made by Netcraft throughout October; however, the average
connection time sat higher at 62 milliseconds.
XILO Communications Ltd. saw a return to the top three most reliable hosting companies this month for the first time since January.
Like GoDaddy and Swishmail, 100% of the availability requests made by
Netcraft received a response. With an average connection time of 63
milliseconds, this makes it the eighth time this year that XILO
Communications Ltd. has made it into the top ten.
Yet again, the table this month is dominated by Linux, which is used by eight of the top ten sites. EveryCity uses the SmartOS
community fork of OpenSolaris, while Swishmail uses the FreeBSD
operating system. This is now the fourth month in a row where Microsoft
Windows has been completely absent from the top ten.
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.