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| Rank | Performance Graph | OS | Outage hh:mm:ss |
Failed Req% |
DNS | Connect | First byte |
Total |
| 1 | Swishmail | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.003 | 0.134 | 0.076 | 0.152 | 0.209 |
| 2 | ServerStack | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.003 | 0.096 | 0.078 | 0.158 | 0.158 |
| 3 | iWeb | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.003 | 0.146 | 0.083 | 0.166 | 0.166 |
| 4 | Hyve Managed Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.006 | 0.267 | 0.083 | 0.166 | 0.168 |
| 5 | XILO Communications | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.009 | 0.230 | 0.094 | 0.399 | 0.561 |
| 6 | Qube Managed Services | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.012 | 0.136 | 0.065 | 0.132 | 0.132 |
| 7 | Virtual Internet | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.015 | 0.164 | 0.089 | 0.383 | 0.594 |
| 8 | Datapipe | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.018 | 0.089 | 0.031 | 0.062 | 0.095 |
| 9 | New York Internet | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.018 | 0.142 | 0.079 | 0.159 | 0.491 |
| 10 | Bigstep | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.018 | 0.293 | 0.084 | 0.174 | 0.321 |
Swishmail had the most reliable hosting company site in July 2013. The New York based company failed to respond to only one of Netcraft’s requests during the whole month, and had an average connection time of 0.076s. Swishmail primarily operates as an email hosting provider and uses three different data centers, run by Savvis, Level3 and Globix in New York City. Upstream connectivity is provided by Level3, Savvis, Cogent, AboveNet and Globix.
In second and third place, both also with only one failed request, were ServerStack and iWeb. ServerStack had the most reliable hosting company site during the previous month, and has data centers in New Jersey, San Jose and Amsterdam. iWeb’s data centers in Montreal have a total dedicated server capacity of nearly 35,000.
For the second month in a row, none of July’s top ten hosting companies were running on Windows operating systems. The most reliable hosting company site, Swishmail, was running on FreeBSD, as were two others sites within the top ten; the remaining seven were running on Linux. In terms of web server software, Apache was used by seven of the top ten sites, while nginx was used by three sites, including Swishmail’s.
Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of around forty leading 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 customer’s point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on hosting companies’ own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why we choose to rank our table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage. In the event the number of failed requests are equal then sites are ranked by average connection times.
Information on the measurement process and current measurements is available.
The following features have been improved:
[*] Parallels Installer appearance was updated to have the common style with Panel. (139952)
[*] After creating a backup, Panel notifies users about files that were not included in the backup because of insufficient permissions. (122235)
[*] Improved the Objects To Transfer page for transfers from legacy products such as Ensim or Confixx. (139559)
[*] Security improvements. (140735)
[*] Improved the Objects To Transfer page for transfers from legacy products such as Ensim or Confixx. (139559)
[*] Security improvements. (140735)
The following issues have been fixed:
[-] (Linux only) Panel displayed confusing error messages when restoring backups created by Panel 9.5.4. (69420)
[-] After upgrading from Plesk 8.x or 9.x, mail users of a customer’s subscription could access other subscriptions of the same customer. (72902)
[-] Panel sent summary reports (Home > Tools & Settings > Summary Report) by email in plain text although they were supposed to be HTML pages. (139652)
[-] Administrators could not include domain names in the files of the default virtual host template using the @domain_name@ variable. (140092)
[-] (Linux only) Administrators could not create more user accounts after a successful creation of a large number of accounts (over 3000) because the allowed memory size was exhausted. (140167)
[-] Panel failed to save personal FTP repository settings if users specified a Directory for backup files storage that starts with ‘/’. (140209)
[-] Resellers could set resource limits of their customer’s subscriptions so that these limits would exceed the limits of resources available to the resellers. (140389)
[-] Customers could change their Preferred domain even if they did not have the Domain management permission. (140480)
[-] (Linux only) When administrator ran vzpkg update on a Parallels Virtuozzo Container with Panel, the following error occurred: “Dependencies cannot be resolved”. (140610)
[-] (Linux only) Users could not delete wildcard subdomains with mail service switched on. (138504)
[-] (Linux only) Panel failed to update and upgrade if PHP from the Webtatic repository was installed on the server. (138635)
[-] Panel did not warn users that all website content will be removed when they switched their domains’ hosting type from Website hosting to Forwarding or No web hosting. (140731)
[-] Security improvements. (140797)
[-] (Linux only) The statistics utility failed to calculate statistics for additional domains and subdomains. (140746)
[-] (Linux only) Administrators could not retrieve additional Parallels Premium Antivirus license keys through the Panel GUI. (140803)
[-] (Linux only) Customers could not set the value of the max_execution_time PHP setting to 0. The following error occurred: “Template_Exception: Syntax error on line 64 of /etc/apache2/plesk.conf.d/vhosts/.conf: FcgidIOTimeout must be greater than 0”. (140849)
[-] (Windows only) Administrators were unable to create domains with international domain names by means of API RPC or command line utilities if the Panel mail server supported ‘mbox_quota’ or ‘total_mboxes_quota’ limits (for example, the IceWarp Merak mail server). (71958)
[-] (Windows only) Panel failed to migrate data from Plesk 8.x or 9.x if Apache was running on the source server. (91307)
[-] (Windows only) Panel incorrectly transferred DNS SRV records when transferring domains from Panel 10.4.4. (139162)
[-] (Windows only) Administrators could not switch on the option Always assign one application pool to each subscription on the Tools & Settings > IIS Application Pool > Global Settings page if there was at least one subscription with the Forwarding hosting type on the server. (140363)
[-] (Windows only) Panel failed to restore system users from backups if the users’ passwords contained the symbol ” (double quote). (140394)
[-] (Windows only) Additional administrators could not add mass email templates. Panel raised the error “500 – Internal server error. There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.” (140478)
[-] (Windows only) When transferring data from another server, Panel failed to transfer mail content of mailboxes that had subfolders within the Inbox folder. (140616)
[-] (Windows only) The utility web_statistics_executor.exe stopped generating web statistics for all domains if an error occurred while processing a domain. (140717)
[-] (Windows only) Panel failed to migrate FTP accounts created for subdomains from Plesk 9.5. The following error occurred: “Unable to create FTP account: There are no available resources of this type (additional FTP accounts) left. Requested: 1; available: 0.” (140725)
The August issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here! Our stories this month:
Editors Introduction
Bio Feedback, by Alice Grevet
Google Summer of Code
New Look Template Manager – Project Update, by Ram Tripathi
Feature Stories
The Telescopic CMS: Reaching New Users & Bridging Nations, by Ryan Bernstein
A Joomla Bug Squad Lesson on JLayouts, by Peter Wiseman
Ĝumla goes International, by Stella Lindblom
Designers
Rebuilding Our Site Part 1: Wireframes, Design and Our Audience, by Ryuhei Yokokawa
Colour and Its Influence on a Website, by Victoria Stone
Hello, Flat Design. 17 Joomla! Templates for Inspiration, by Scott Greenwald
Design Should Reflect Your Brand Identity, by Hannah Kaufman
Administrators
When Should You Upgrade Your Joomla 1.5 Site, by Alan Langford
How to Add Google+ Authorship to Our Joomla! Site, by Victoria Stone
Higher Rankings and Basic SEO for Your Joomla! Website, by Stephany C Jones
Sitebuilders
How to Choose an Extension? Part 3: Documentation, by Mike Veeckmans
How to Approach to Big Projects with Joomla!, by Pedro F. Vidal Lopez
Can Joomla! Help me Save Money on E-learning Projects?, by Pedro F. Vidal Lopez
Website Case Study: Polish Joomla! Magazine, by Robert Vining
Developers
Master Bootstrap – Free Template for Joomla!, by Victoria Stone
Getting Started with Composer and Joomla!, by David Hurley
Events
JoomlaDay San Francisco – A New Paradigm for Joomla!, by Jennifer Gress
Joomla! World Conference 2013, Get Your Tickets Now!, by Dianne Henning
Business Matters
How to Create a Newsletter People Actually Read, by Shannon Good
Harness The Power of Controversy to Gain More Traffic to Your Joomla! Site, by John Rampton
Project News
Leadership Highlights August 2013, by Marijke Stuivenberg
Joomla! Resources Directory – It’s Time for a Change!, by Chad Windnagle
International Stories
Browse the international articles submitted this month.
In our next issue
We want to publish your Joomla! story in the next JCM issue! So take a look at our Author Resources content to get a better idea of what we are looking for, and then register to become a JCM author and submit your Joomla! story!
(Jul 29) Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.