Thee months after the last ISP ranking report Mon.itor.Us, a leading free website monitoring service, publishes new uptime statistics based on over 65,000 http tests and over 160 million checks for http performed during reporting period.
Uptime Statistics
The results are presented in the tables show: ISPs provided higher uptime from the US than Europe. 20 ISPs from Europe provided 99% + uptime and only one reached 99.5%, while 10 ISPs provided 99.5% + uptime according to the test results from the US location.
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Mon.itor.Us performs over 18 million checks per day between http, ping, https, ftp, pop, smtp,
dns, tcp, udp, imap, sip tests. Chart below shows allocation of the tests performed during the reporting period.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Mon.itor.Us and ISP Uptime Ranking for March - July 2008
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Hosting Companies' Uptime according to Mon.itor.Us in February 2008
The previous month Mon.itor.Us reported figures on Best Hosting Providers in 2007. It was quite a unique approach to measure the hosting company SLA based on aggregated performance of all http checks per each provider.
In February 2008 the monitoring results are as follows:
The following providers', iPowerweb, LiquidWeb, Hosteurope GmbH, Akamai Technologies, uptime went down compared to the 2007 results. Since there are 2 monitoring locations in Europe, Mon.itor. the data weighs is higher than those of the USA.
ISPs with 99.5%+ uptime from USA in February 2008 as shown in the table below are Akamai International B.V., Google, AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, 1&1 Internet, Rackspace.com, CrystalTech Web Hosting, ADDD2NET COM INC DBA LUNARPAGES, Hosteurope GmbH, GoDaddy.com, Peer 1 Dedicated Hosting, FastServers, Liquid Web and Bluehost.
High uptime providers' number increased compared to 2007 report, but iPowerweb again does not apprear among the top.Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Ranking ISPs According to their Performance on Internet
Nowadays when internet businesses are trying to grow, finding reliable hosting companies is a tedious process. There are many ISP companies all claiming high performance and uptime. How would you evaluate all the information provided in many blogs and forums to be able to choose an ISP that would best fit company business goals? Answering such a question could be relatively easy if performance measurements such as uptime, speed and popularity of ISPs could be accurately compared.
Mon.itor.Us published a study called Best Hosting Providers in 2007: Mon.itor.Us statistics that suggests another unique angle of comparing ISPs as being a reliable, high performance hosting company.
In the report Mon.itor.Us ranked ISPs based on aggregated statistics of uptime and performance of all servers that belong to a particular ISP, from the end-users' perspective. They utilized the real time external monitoring data from all the HTTP checks performed for the Web sites hosted on a particular ISP. Hosts with at least 100 sites being monitored by Mon.itor.Us were considered. Mon.itor.Us evaluated the ISPs from three conditions: Popularity, Availability and Response time. The aggregated data was then summerized in 7 tables:
1-Most Popular 20 ISPs in Mon.itor.Us Network 2007
2-ISPs in Mon.itor.Us Network Provided 99.5%+ Uptime in 2007
3-ISPs in Mon.itor.Us Network Provided 99.5%+ Uptime from USA in 2007
4-ISPs in Mon.itor.Us Network Provided 99.5%+ Uptime from Europe in 2007
5-ISPs in Mon.itor.Us Network Provided High Speed Connection in 2007
6-ISPs in Mon.itor.Us Network Provided High Speed Connection from USA in 2007
7-ISPs in Mon.itor.Us Network Provided High Speed Connection from Europe in 2007
It is also mentioned that the study isn't intended to evaluate the providers' hosting service, since there are more important criteria such as price and available features. But the study provides a unique approach to rank ISPs assessing their actual performance on the Internet.
Here's the link to the report: http://blog.mon.itor.us/?p=382
