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.

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DataPipe appears in third place in December, marking its 11th appearance in the top ten during 2007 – an impressive feat. November was the only month where DataPipe did not reach the top ten. 3FN makes a forth place appearance in December, falling from 3rd place in November, while Go Daddy appears in 5th place. Only two of December’s top ten hosters run Linux, including iWeb, while four run FreeBSD. Two of the hosters run Windows Server 2003, while another uses Windows 2000.

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. Netcraft has a cosmopolitan client list, spread through the UK, the USA, mainland Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Clients include Aegon, British Telecom, Capita, John Lewis, Lloyds of London, Microsoft, Rackspace, and Securicor.

Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, and co-founder of 3com, pronounced Netcraft ”cool”, while Tim O’Reilly called www.netcraft.com the best known example of a site devoted to tracking technology on the Internet.

Netcraft is company number 02161164 registered in England and Wales, whose registered office is 2 Belmont, Bath, BA1 5DZ, UK The company services include:

• Providing internet security services, including anti-fraud and anti-phishing services, application testing, code reviews, and automated penetration testing.
• Providing research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet. Netcraft has explored the Internet since 1995 and is a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, encrypted transactions, electronic commerce, scripting languages and content technologies on the internet.
• Accepting advertising on the Netcraft web sites.

To learn more, please visit: http://news.netcraft.com.

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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.

Included in the new report are: DataPipe, Navisite, MyHosting.com and iWeb8, followed closely by New York Internet and Webfusion. According to Netcraft, this marks the first time in the top spot of our monthly rankings for NaviSite and My Hosting.com, although each have been among the top 10 a number of times. DataPipe has been the most reliable host fives times previously, while iWeb8 was the top performer in January.

NaviSite is a managed hosting company in Andover, Mass., that also provides content distribution services. Navisite is publicly held, and was among the best performing U.S. stocks in the infrastructure sector in 2006, when its shares rose 457 percent. It has 950 customers in 14 data centers in the US, UK and India.

MyHosting.com is the hosting arm of SoftCom Technology Consulting, which also operates the mail2web email service. MyHosting.com is based in Toronto, Canada and was founded in 1997. The company specializes in hosting on the Microsoft platform, but added Linux hosting in 2004.

From a customers’ point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on the 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.

For more information about the measurement process and current measurements, please visit: http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/reports/Hosters.