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Janova paddle brings performance-tracking smarts to table tennis

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Monitoring your performance can help you improve in pretty much any sport, and that includes table tennis. The German-designed Janova paddle was created with this fact in mind, as it tracks your strokes while you play.Continue ReadingCategory: Sports, … Continue reading Janova paddle brings performance-tracking smarts to table tennis→

Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in February 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 0.369 0.007 0.030 0.043
2 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.524 0.011 0.023 0.023
3 Bigstep Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.193 0.078 0.154 0.154
4 CWCS Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.314 0.079 0.156 0.156
5 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.146 0.079 0.158 0.158
6 krystal.uk Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.197 0.090 0.177 0.177
7 Swishmail unknown 0:00:00 0.000 0.243 0.106 0.210 0.210
8 Pair Networks Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.377 0.119 0.239 0.239
9 Multacom Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.382 0.144 0.289 0.289
10 www.dinahosting.com Linux 0:00:00 0.009 0.215 0.084 0.168 0.168

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Aruba had the most reliable hosting company site in February 2022, continuing to top the table for the third consecutive month. 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 top nine hosting company sites each responded to all of Netcraft’s requests and were separated by average connection time.

Rackspace came in second place, keeping its second place podium spot for the third consecutive month and appearing in the top two for the fifth consecutive month. The company offers a variety of cloud hosting solutions from 19 data centres across five different continents in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. In third place, Bigstep provides bare metal hosting solutions from data centres in the UK and Romania with additional facilities in North America and Europe for project delivery.

Nine of the top 10 hosting company sites used Linux in February, with the operating system continuing its dominance in the table. Swishmail used an unidentified OS.

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3d Printed Circular Prototype Performance Prop Captivates Circus Spectators

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When mathematically inspired maker [Henry Segerman] conspired with circus performer and acrobat [Marcus Paoletti] to advance the craft of acrobatics in round metal objects (such as cyr wheels and German …read more Continue reading 3d Printed Circular Prototype Performance Prop Captivates Circus Spectators→

Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in January 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 0.386 0.008 0.034 0.035
2 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.529 0.012 0.025 0.025
3 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.149 0.084 0.167 0.167
4 www.dinahosting.com Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.219 0.084 0.168 0.169
5 Bigstep Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.195 0.086 0.171 0.171
6 Swishmail unknown 0:00:00 0.000 0.246 0.108 0.214 0.214
7 www.flexential.com Linux 0:00:00 0.008 0.274 0.105 0.212 0.212
8 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.008 0.230 0.107 0.213 0.214
9 Pair Networks Linux 0:00:00 0.008 0.377 0.118 0.235 0.235
10 New York Internet (NYI) FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.017 0.592 0.082 0.164 0.164

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Aruba kicked off 2022 with the most reliable hosting company site in January, continuing to top the table from December 2021. The top six hosting company sites each responded to all of Netcraft’s requests in January and were separated by average connection time. Aruba provides hosting, cloud and digital signature services, fibre optic internet, digital preservation, and much more. The company has data centres across Europe in the UK, Germany, Czechia, Poland, Italy and France.

Rackspace and Hyve Managed Hosting came in second and third in January, which means the podium places are unchanged from December 2021. Rackspace provides a wide variety of cloud services from its global network of over 50 locations across five continents. Hyve offers cloud hosting, dedicated servers and managed services from data centres in 34 locations around the world.

Eight of the top 10 hosting company sites used Linux in January, continuing the dominance of Linux. FreeBSD made an appearance in eighth place with New York Internet and Swishmail used an unidentified OS.

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Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in December 2021

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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 0.310 0.005 0.030 0.030
2 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.456 0.008 0.017 0.017
3 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.122 0.062 0.124 0.124
4 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.194 0.102 0.202 0.202
5 Pair Networks Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.342 0.113 0.227 0.227
6 CWCS Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.284 0.062 0.123 0.124
7 Bigstep Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.170 0.064 0.128 0.128
8 www.dinahosting.com Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.184 0.072 0.145 0.145
9 HN Datacenter Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.559 0.224 1.080 1.089
10 krystal.uk Linux 0:00:00 0.013 0.178 0.079 0.154 0.154

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Aruba finished 2021 as the most reliable hosting company site in December, with no failed requests and the second fastest average connection time. 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 top five hosting company sites each responded to all of Netcraft’s requests in December and so are ranked on their average connection times. The top five is completed by Rackspace, Hyve Managed Hosting, ServerStack and Pair Networks. In second place, Rackspace appeared in the top 10 every month in 2021 and offers a variety of cloud hosting solutions from 19 data centres across five different continents in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. Hyve Managed Hosting also appeared in the top 10 every month in 2021. Hyve offers cloud hosting, dedicated servers and managed services from data centres in 34 locations around the world.

ServerStack appeared 10 times in the top 10 in 2021 and provides managed and dedicated solutions from its three data centres in North America and Amsterdam. Pair Networks made seven top 10 appearances in 2021 and provides a range of managed and dedicated hosting solutions from its data centre in the US, as well as domain registration.

Linux continues to dominate the top 10, with all of the top 10 using Linux in December. Across 2021 Linux appeared 109 times in the top 10, with FreeBSD making 9 appearances and SmartOS appearing once in January 2021.

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