October 13, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web analytics firm Netcraft (netcraft.com) announced last week that Rackspace (rackspace.com) is the most reliable hosting company for September 2006, followed closely by managed hosting provider Datapipe (datapipe.com) and colocation and dedicated hosting provider Kattare (kattare.com).
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The San Antonio, Texas Web host has ranked consistently in Netcraft's standings since the firm began tracking Web performance in 2003. This marks the fifth time this year that Rackspace has been the most reliable Web host, and achieved this recognition six times in 2005.
Eight of the 10 most reliable Web hosting provides run their sites on a Linux platform, while the remaining two use an unknown OS. Netcraft measures and publishes the response times of fifty leading Web 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 customers' point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more significant than outages on the Web hosts' own sites, since this indicates reliability of routing, and is the reason why Netcraft ranks its table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage.
