January 6, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Datapipe (datapipe.com) had the most reliable Web site in the second half of 2004, according to research and analysis firm Netcraft (netcraft.com). Datapipe was one of six companies that did not record any downtime. The other five, in order of reliability, were Pair Networks (pair.com), New York Internet (nyi.net), Myhosting.com (myhosting.com), Rackspace Managed Hosting (rackspace.com) and iPowerWeb (ipowerweb.com). Kattare (katarre.com), Schlund (schlund.de) and Netcetera (netcetera.co.uk) were the seven to ninth most reliable sites, according to Netcraft, while Interland (interland.com), Energis (energis.com) and 1&1 Internet (oneandone.com) rounded out the top 12.
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Four of the top 12 sites run on Windows Server 2003, including Datapipe and Myhosting.com, another three run on FreeBSD and four run on Linux. Interland’s platform was unknown.
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According to Netcraft, Datapipe, Pair Networks and iPowerWeb were among last year’s list of most reliable Web hosting company Web sites.
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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 seven separate points around the Internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24-hour period.
