Netcraft Announces the Most Reliable Web Hosting Companies in September

Tiscali Italia, Rackspace and Seeweb are the most reliable hosting company sites for September 2007, followed closely by Pair Networks, Go Daddy and Affinity, Netcraft announced.

Tiscali is a European telecommunications company based in Italy and markets its offerings predominantly in Italy, the UK, Germany, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. Tiscali's core business is providing internet access and has 2 million ADSL users in the UK and Italy. Tiscali has appeared within the top ten most reliable hosting companies four times this year. Conversely, Rackspace specialises in managed hosting and is well known for its promise of Fanatical Support. This is Rackspace's third appearance within the top ten this year, notably making first place for two consecutive months in April and May. Seeweb is an Italian company, which offers both shared and dedicated hosting and last appeared within the top ten in April.

Datapipe is the only hosting company to have made it into the top ten every month so far this year. Datapipe was the most reliable hosting company in March and also took second place in June and July.

Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of fifty 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.

Further information on the measurement process and current measurements are available.

Source: Netcraft