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| Rank | Company site | OS | Outage hh:mm:ss |
Failed Req% |
DNS | Connect | First byte |
Total |
| 1 | Hyve Managed Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.164 | 0.084 | 0.172 | 0.174 |
| 2 | Kattare Internet Services | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.007 | 0.111 | 0.103 | 0.207 | 0.455 |
| 3 | Netcetera | Windows Server 2012 | 0:00:00 | 0.010 | 0.025 | 0.071 | 0.143 | 0.286 |
| 4 | Pair Networks | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.017 | 0.144 | 0.038 | 0.078 | 0.253 |
| 5 | Datapipe | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.024 | 0.071 | 0.016 | 0.032 | 0.049 |
| 6 | Hosting 4 Less | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.024 | 0.064 | 0.059 | 0.120 | 0.170 |
| 7 | XILO Communications Ltd. | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.024 | 0.154 | 0.071 | 0.451 | 0.619 |
| 8 | www.hostway.ro | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.024 | 0.524 | 0.154 | 0.473 | 0.795 |
| 9 | New York Internet | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.027 | 0.091 | 0.031 | 0.691 | 0.835 |
| 10 | iWeb | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.027 | 0.062 | 0.055 | 0.111 | 0.111 |
In its third month being publicly monitored by Netcraft, Hyve Managed Hosting had an almost perfect record: only two requests failed out of the 30,000 requests we made in February. www.hyve.co.uk is served by nginx, a web server well-known for its performance. Hyve’s primary data centre is in Global Switch London 2, a well-located modern facility in London’s Docklands, close to key business centres. Hyve specialise in Cloud, Dedicated, and Secure FTP hosting, with clients including British Airways, Tesco, and American Express.
Kattare Internet Services also had just two failed requests in February, but was ranked in second place by using the average connect time as the tie-breaker. Kattare — a Java specialist based in Oregon — is celebrating their 70th month in the top 10 having been monitored since October 2003. Kattare, named for Kättare (Swedish for "heretic"), is a keen advocate of open-source solutions including FreeBSD and Linux: more than 97% of the web-facing computers found at the hosting company are powered by Linux.
Netcetera, up from 8th place in January to 3rd in February, is the only hosting company with a site hosted on Windows in the top 10: the remainder, where known, are all powered by Linux or FreeBSD. Netcetera has data centres in London and the Isle of Man, a jurisdiction which welcomes online gambling, linked by a comprehensive network.
Datapipe, Hosting 4 Less, XILO, and Hostway Romania all had seven failed requests, split only by average connect time: Datapipe’s impressive connect time, 16ms, is evidence of the benefits of their globally disperse hosting platform. February was only the second month where Hostway.ro has been in the top 10, only three months after their first appearance in the top 10 in November 2012.
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.
In the March 2013 survey we received responses from 631,521,198 sites.
Microsoft showed a noticeable gain of 9M sites this month, increasing its market share by 1.42 percentage points to 18.01%. Much of this growth was seen at
Go Daddy, which alone gained 2.6M sites powered by Microsoft web servers. Microsoft also fared well amongst the top million busiest sites, where its market share grew by 0.74 percentage points
to 13.60%, increasing its narrow lead over its closest rival, nginx.
More than 130,000 of the sites in Netcraft’s survey are hosted on Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform, but not all are running Microsoft web servers: Since Microsoft Open Technologies launched its VM Depot preview in January, more than 100 ready-to-use images have been added to the community-driven catalogue of virtual machines. This makes it easier for customers to deploy Linux-based images running preconfigured applications and frameworks such as WordPress,
Joomla!, Drupal,
Django and
MongoDB. The majority of these images are based on Ubuntu Linux, and many of them use
Apache and PHP to serve their content.
nginx also saw a reasonable gain in market share this month, with an additional 4.4M sites taking its share up by 0.68 percentage points to 13.53%. The most recent development release of nginx (1.3.13) introduced support for proxying
WebSocket connections – an HTML5 technology which provides full-duplex communications between a browser and a web application over a single TCP connection. WebSockets are supported by all modern desktop browser software, for which the
protocol specification defines two URI schemes: ws: for unencrypted connections, and wss: for secure ones. The development of WebSocket support in nginx was sponsored by
CloudBees and
Apcera, who will both be making use of the new feature in their own services.
nginx performed less well amongst the top million sites, where it had looked set to overtake Microsoft this month. Instead, a net loss of 910 nginx sites resulted in its share falling to 12.72%.
| Developer | February 2013 | Percent | March 2013 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 344,915,105 | 54.68% | 341,021,574 | 54.00% | -0.68 |
| Microsoft | 104,647,425 | 16.59% | 113,712,293 | 18.01% | 1.42 |
| nginx | 81,074,694 | 12.85% | 85,467,555 | 13.53% | 0.68 |
| 22,717,984 | 3.60% | 22,605,646 | 3.58% | -0.02 |
| Developer | February 2013 | Percent | March 2013 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 101,558,682 | 54.92% | 101,960,513 | 54.98% | 0.06 |
| Microsoft | 21,484,151 | 11.62% | 22,962,575 | 12.38% | 0.76 |
| nginx | 21,970,144 | 11.88% | 22,224,423 | 11.98% | 0.10 |
| 14,976,221 | 8.10% | 15,016,785 | 8.10% | -0.00 |
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| Developer | February 2013 | Percent | March 2013 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 587,306 | 58.73% | 583,521 | 58.35% | -0.38 |
| Microsoft | 128,592 | 12.86% | 136,037 | 13.60% | 0.74 |
| nginx | 128,132 | 12.81% | 127,222 | 12.72% | -0.09 |
| 19,102 | 1.91% | 18,307 | 1.83% | -0.08 |