Jan, 2009 : Netcraft Posts Most Reliable Hosts for Dec.

📅 January 5, 2009 - Web analytics firm Netcraft (netcraft.com) announced on Friday that New York Internet (nyi.net) and WestHost (westhost.com 👉 Total Reviews: 16
🙌 Average Rating: 2.8 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 2
👎 Bad Reviews: 14
👈 Official Responses: 0) are the most reliable hosting company sites for December 2008.

This marks the third consecutive appearance for New York Internet in the top ten, which was the tenth most reliable host last month. Meanwhile, WestHost has held the top position for the second month in a row.

Last month, DataPipe, Aplus.net, iWeb, WestHost, Hurricane Electric, Server Intellect, Canada Web Hosting and Tiscali saw an eight-way tie for the most reliable hosting company sites for November 2008.

Located in the Wall Street area, New York Internet owns and maintains its own data centers. The company offers a range of services including dedicated servers, colocation and virtual web hosting, using Apache on FreeBSD to host its own site.

WestHost's services include shared web hosting, dedicated servers, reseller hosting and domain name registration. The company uses Linux for its main site and hosts more than 70,000 other websites.

Overall, half of December's top ten hosting providers use Linux for their main company site. Of the remaining five, three providers use FreeBSD, green.ch (green.ch/) uses the F5 BIG-IP device and Easynet (easynet.com) uses Windows Server 2003.

Netcraft measures and posts on its website the response times of fifty leading hosting providers' sites, which are made at fifteen minute intervals from separate points around the Internet.

The averages of the response times are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.

A full table of hosting providers' sites ordered by failures in December can be viewed on Netcraft's website

Last week, Netcraft released the results of its December 2008 Web Server Survey, which received responses from 186,727,854 sites.

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