Successful online business depends on website load time and availability. Website uptime and performance monitoring reveals end user experience with the websites; the later factors to the server performance (other reasons apply as well). Therefore, quality of hosting services are important while choosing an ISP.
ISP ranking based on real time http monitoring results of hosted websites and web applications was discussed early this year in Best Hosting Providers in 2007: Mon.itor.Us Statistics. Ranking criteria were uptime, performance and popularity. Among the three, popularity is considered of greater importance, since it also shows reliability and higher customer satisfaction.
Below is the table of 20 popular service providers shown in the post above. ThePlanet.com is number 2 with 979 active tests on Mon.itor.Us.
More into popularity aspect another post was published about ISP migrations, where among top 20 migrations ThePlanet.com received highest number of migrations (176 new tests moved from Everyone Internet, Net Access Corporation, PoundHost Internet Services and FortressITX to ThePlanet.com).
Mon.itor.Us October statistics brings another insight into ISP popularity. ThePlanet.com shows almost 200% growth in number of tests monitored (1838 tests now!), followed by New Dream Network (80%) and GoDaddy (65%). Eveyone Internet experienced a slight decrease (-15%), while Layered Technology, Net Access Corporation, Media Temple, HostDime.com, Hostdepartment.com are no longer in the top 20. 
Interesting to observe that popular ISPs also show reliable performance according to monitoring results from Europe and US.
Friday, November 28, 2008
ThePlanet.com Popularity Grew ~200%
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