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Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in April 2022

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Rank Performance Graph OS Outage
hh:mm:ss		 Failed
Req%		 DNS Connect First
byte		 Total
1 Aruba unknown 0:00:00 0.000 0.355 0.007 0.028 0.072
2 CWCS Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.338 0.063 0.128 0.128
3 krystal.uk Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.183 0.070 0.138 0.138
4 New York Internet (NYI) FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.000 0.565 0.076 0.151 0.152
5 Bigstep Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.185 0.078 0.154 0.154
6 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.222 0.108 0.216 0.216
7 Swishmail unknown 0:00:00 0.000 0.182 0.109 0.216 0.217
8 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.009 0.141 0.076 0.153 0.153
9 Pair Networks Linux 0:00:00 0.009 0.365 0.118 0.235 0.235
10 Multacom Linux 0:00:00 0.009 0.346 0.144 0.288 0.288

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Aruba had the most reliable hosting company site in April, its fifth month in a row at the top. The top seven hosting company sites each responded to all of Netcraft’s requests in April and were separated by average connection time. Aruba had the fastest average connection time of 7ms. Aruba provides hosting, cloud and digital signature services, fibre optic internet, digital preservation, and much more, with data centres across Europe in the UK, Germany, Czechia, Poland, Italy and France.

The podium places were completed by CWCS Managed Hosting in second and Krystal Hosting in third place. CWCS offers dedicated servers, cloud and VPS hosting, colocation services, domain names and email services from their seven data centres across the UK, USA and Canada. Krystal is based in the UK and offers a variety of cloud hosting solutions, including VPS and managed hosting, dedicated servers and domain names from four data centres across London and the US, with in-house support. Both CWCS and Krystal are powered by 100% renewable energy.

In April, seven of the top 10 hosting company sites were identified to be using Linux. FreeBSD made an appearance in fourth place with New York Internet (NYI). Aruba and Swishmail had unidentified operating systems.

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Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in March 2022

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Rank Performance Graph OS Outage
hh:mm:ss		 Failed
Req%		 DNS Connect First
byte		 Total
1 Aruba Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.356 0.007 0.029 0.031
2 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.513 0.009 0.019 0.019
3 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.140 0.069 0.138 0.138
4 Bigstep Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.188 0.080 0.159 0.159
5 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.224 0.108 0.216 0.216
6 Pair Networks Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.371 0.119 0.237 0.237
7 Multacom Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.297 0.143 0.288 0.288
8 New York Internet (NYI) FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.008 0.575 0.085 0.170 0.170
9 www.flexential.com Linux 0:00:00 0.008 0.266 0.109 0.216 0.216
10 Swishmail unknown 0:08:51 0.034 0.215 0.105 0.209 0.209

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The most reliable hosting company site in March 2022 was Aruba, which has now topped the table for four months in a row. Aruba provides hosting, cloud and digital signature services, fibre optic internet, digital preservation, and more. The company has data centres across Europe, in the UK, Germany, Czechia, Poland, Italy and France.

Rackspace appeared in second place once more, also appearing in this position for the fourth consecutive month. Rackspace provides a wide variety of cloud services from its global network of over 50 locations across five continents. Hyve Managed Hosting came in third place and has also appeared in the top 10 every month so far in 2022. Hyve offers cloud hosting, dedicated servers and managed services from data centres in 34 locations around the world.

Bigstep, ServerStack, Pair Networks and Multacom also responded to all of Netcraft’s requests in March and appeared in fourth place to seventh place.

Whilst Linux continued to dominate the top 10, being used by eight of the top 10, FreeBSD made an appearance in eighth place with New York Internet (NYI). Flexential was the remaining site in the top 10 that used Linux, appearing in ninth place. Swishmail used an unidentified OS.

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