January 12, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting providers INetU (inetu.net), Datapipe (datapipe.com) and iPowerweb (ipowerweb.com) have the three most reliable Web sites, according to a reliability study conducted by UK-based Internet research and analysis firm Netcraft (news.netcraft.com).
According to Netcraft's research, which covered the last six months of 2003, only three hosting company sites incurred as much as a single day's downtime and five hosting providers went through the entire six-month period having experienced no power outages at all.
Netcraft compiled a list of the top performing hosting company Web sites based on percentage of failed requests, which the firm argues is better than measuring outages as an indicator of reliability.
According to Netcraft, INetU, Datapipe and iPowerweb were followed in the top three positions by pair, webhosting.yahoo.com and complex.net. Positions seven through ten were taken by about.com, terranet.com, above.net and jumpline.com.
Seven of the top the sites run FREEBSD, while Datapipe runs Windows Server 2003 and komplex.net runs Linux.
Netcraft said that over the six month period studied, August, which saw the Northeast power outage, Blaster worm, Sobig virus and a spate of distributed denial of service attacks, essentially decided the rankings.
