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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Recording absolutely no failed requests, Aplus.net (www.aplus.net), New York Internet (www.nyi.net), and ZeroLag Communications (www.zerolag.com) all tied for first place as the most reliable hosting company sites in January, according to Netcraft's (www.netcraft.com) performance evaluation throughout the month.
In a trend that is becoming increasingly common, according to UK-based web analytics firm Netcraft, all three sites responded to all of its requests made at 15-minute intervals from separate points on the globe.
A single, clear winner of the survey has been becoming increasingly hard to determine in the past few months. Eight hosting companies shared the top spot in Netcraft's November survey of the most reliable hosting company sites, each showing only one failed request throughout the month. In its December survey, Netcraft named New York Internet and WestHost (www.westhost.com) the most reliable hosting company sites for the month.
Netcraft's ranking system is based on the number of failed requests, with results averaged over each day. According to Netcraft, the percentage of failed requests is more important to customers than shortest periods of outage, because it gives a pointer to the reliability of their routing.
This month, free operating systems dominated the top ten. Four sites ran FreeBSD and another four ran Linux.
Founded in 1992 as Abacus America, Aplus.net began offering Internet services in 1995, then hosting services in 1998, and has since grown to have 250 employees, more than 100,000 customers, including 6,000 dedicated server customers. They run Apache on FreeBSD, and last made the top spot in Netcraft's June 2008 survey.
New York Internet also runs Apache on FreeBSD site, and was also tied for first last month and this month marks the fourth consecutive month in which it made the top 10.
Los Angeles-based ZeroLag offers virtual private servers and fully managed dedicated servers and colocation, as well as T1 and T3 Internet connections, web development services and security consulting. Their corporate site runs lighttpd, and they were joint first in September 2008.
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