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September 12, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting providers 1&1 Internet (1and1.com), Rackspace (rackspace.com) and New York Internet (nyi.net) ended in a three-way tie as the most reliable Web hosting company sites for August 2006, according to Web analytics firm Netcraft (netcraft.com). The home pages for all three providers were perfect for the month, experiencing no downtime and no failed requests.
This month's leader board shows that hosting customers can find good network connectivity at either end of the hosting spectrum. 1&1 is one of most affordable providers, and New York Internet and Rackspace are higher-priced managed hosting specialists.
This marks the fourth time this year that Rackspace has been ranked most reliable host, while NYI has topped the list or tied for first on three occasions. 1&1, which hosts more than 3 million active sites, previously led the rankings in May 2005. Seven of the 10 most reliable Web hosts, says Netcraft, run their sites on Linux, while two use FreeBSD, and one Windows Server 2003.
Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of fifty leading hosting providers' sites. The performance measurements are made at 15-minute intervals from separate points around the Internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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