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Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in November 2021

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Rank Performance Graph OS Outage
hh:mm:ss		 Failed
Req%		 DNS Connect First
byte		 Total
1 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.463 0.008 0.020 0.020
2 Bigstep Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.190 0.063 0.126 0.126
3 CWCS Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.291 0.064 0.127 0.127
4 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.128 0.068 0.137 0.137
5 www.dinahosting.com Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.189 0.072 0.144 0.144
6 Swishmail Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.218 0.098 0.196 0.196
7 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.201 0.104 0.205 0.205
8 Aruba Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.340 0.006 0.030 0.030
9 New York Internet (NYI) FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.007 0.536 0.063 0.127 0.127
10 krystal.uk Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.176 0.084 0.159 0.159

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Rackspace had the most reliable hosting company site in November 2021, with an average connection time of just 8ms across the month and no failed requests. Rackspace has appeared in the top 10 most reliable hosting company sites every month of the past 12 months, and has taken the number one spot in five of those. Rackspace offers a wide variety of cloud hosting solutions from over 40 data centres across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Places two, three and four in November 2021 go to Bigstep, CWCS Managed Hosting and Hyve Managed Hosting respectively. All three of these hosting company sites had no failed requests and were competitive on average connection times, coming in at 63ms, 64ms and 68ms respectively.

Bigstep’s bare metal cloud hosting provides the flexibility of cloud hosting without the associated overhead and performance reductions of virtualization. The bare metal offerings are available in data centres in the UK and Romania. CWCS Managed Hosting offer dedicated servers, cloud and VPS hosting, colocation services, domain names and email services from their seven data centres across the UK, USA and Canada. Hyve Managed Hosting offer cloud hosting, dedicated servers and managed services from data centres in 34 locations around the world.

Nine of the top 10 hosting company sites used Linux in October, continuing the dominance of Linux. In ninth place, New York Internet (NYI) used FreeBSD.

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Security implications of using HTTP for service to service communication within the same host [duplicate]

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What are the security implications of using HTTP only for IPC for services within the same host?
In my case, I am using docker-compose to host two ASP.NET Core services within the same host in Azure.
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Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in October 2021

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Rank Performance Graph OS Outage
hh:mm:ss		 Failed
Req%		 DNS Connect First
byte		 Total
1 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.490 0.008 0.017 0.017
2 CWCS Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.246 0.062 0.125 0.125
3 www.choopa.com Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.256 0.003 0.020 0.020
4 Bigstep Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.203 0.063 0.127 0.127
5 Swishmail Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.229 0.098 0.194 0.194
6 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.211 0.102 0.203 0.203
7 New York Internet (NYI) FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.027 0.551 0.062 0.124 0.124
8 Hivelocity Linux 0:00:00 0.034 0.354 0.003 0.035 0.035
9 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.034 0.136 0.072 0.147 0.147
10 Multacom Linux 0:00:00 0.047 0.409 0.147 0.296 0.296

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Rackspace had the most reliable hosting company site in October 2021, with an average connection time of 8ms and no failed requests. So far in 2021, Rackspace has appeared in the top 10 every month, with four appearances in first place. Rackspace provides a wide variety of cloud services from its global network of over 50 locations across five continents.

In second place, CWCS Managed Hosting also responded to each of Netcraft’s requests in October, with an average connection time of 62ms. CWCS provides dedicated servers and cloud services with data centres across the UK and North America.

The top five is completed by Choopa.com, Bigstep and Swishmail whose sites each responded to the same number of requests and were separated by average connection time. Choopa.com had the fastest average connection time of just 3ms. Choopa.com offers a range of services including cloud hosting, dedicated hosting and colocation with its own primary facility in Piscataway, New Jersey and other facilities in Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Tokyo. Colocation from Choopa.com is available in the US, Amsterdam and London.

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. Swishmail provides business email services with hosting services from three data centre facilities in New York.

Nine of the top 10 hosting company sites used Linux in October, continuing the dominance of Linux. In seventh place, New York Internet (NYI) used FreeBSD.

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Windows 11 New Features, Release Date, and System Requirements

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Windows 11 is generally available this week on October 5th. But while some have dismissed it as just Windows 10 with a fresh coat of paint, there are changes that Microsoft says lead to improved performance, reliability, and security. In this article, I’m going to look at the new features in Windows 11 and how […] Continue reading Windows 11 New Features, Release Date, and System Requirements→

Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in September 2021

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Rank Performance Graph OS Outage
hh:mm:ss		 Failed
Req%		 DNS Connect First
byte		 Total
1 New York Internet (NYI) FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.000 0.554 0.061 0.121 0.122
2 Bigstep Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.201 0.063 0.125 0.125
3 CWCS Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.247 0.066 0.132 0.132
4 Dinahosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.202 0.073 0.147 0.147
5 Swishmail Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.229 0.096 0.192 0.192
6 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.213 0.100 0.200 0.200
7 Pair Networks Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.365 0.116 0.232 0.232
8 GoDaddy.com Inc Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.419 0.008 0.033 0.035
9 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.489 0.010 0.020 0.020
10 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.138 0.073 0.145 0.145

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In September 2021, New York Internet (NYI) had the most reliable hosting company site: it responded to all of Netcraft’s requests, with an average connection time of 61ms. NYI has appeared in the top 10 table seven times in 2021 so far. Customers can choose from a range of cloud, colocation, bare metal and managed solutions.

Bigstep, CWCS Managed Hosting and Dinahosting appear in second, third and fourth places. Bigstep came close to NYI in average connection time, averaging 63ms. CWCS and Dinahosting both followed, averaging 66ms and 73ms respectively.

Bigstep’s bare metal cloud hosting provides the flexibility of cloud hosting without the associated overhead and performance reductions of virtualization. The bare metal offerings are available in data centres in the UK and Romania.

CWCS provides dedicated servers along with cloud services, as well as domain registration and VPS hosting. CWCS has data centres across the UK, as well as North America.

Dinahosting provides cloud hosting and domain registration services, with data centres located at Interxion and Global Switch, in Madrid.

The top hosting company in September used FreeBSD, whilst the rest of the top 10 used Linux. This marks the first time in 2021 that a non-Linux provider has been the most reliable host, but Linux remains clearly dominant in the top 10 throughout this year.

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Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in August 2021

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Rank Performance Graph OS Outage
hh:mm:ss		 Failed
Req%		 DNS Connect First
byte		 Total
1 www.choopa.com Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.262 0.003 0.020 0.020
2 Aruba Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.412 0.005 0.026 0.026
3 Bigstep Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.200 0.062 0.125 0.125
4 CWCS Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.250 0.068 0.134 0.134
5 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.143 0.073 0.148 0.148
6 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.214 0.100 0.201 0.201
7 www.flexential.com Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.248 0.104 0.208 0.208
8 Pair Networks Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.369 0.118 0.235 0.235
9 GoDaddy.com Inc Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.415 0.005 0.025 0.027
10 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.007 0.485 0.007 0.017 0.017

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In August 2021, Choopa had the most reliable hosting company site: it responded to all of Netcraft’s requests, with an average connection time of 3ms. Choopa has appeared in the top 10 table five times in 2021 so far, also coming top in February and April of this year. Customers can choose from a range of cloud and managed solutions as well as register domain names.

Aruba, Bigstep and CWCS Managed Hosting appear in second, third and fourth places. Aruba came close to Choopa in average connection time, averaging 5ms. Bigstep and CWCS Managed Hosting were both slower, averaging 62ms and 68ms.

Aruba provides hosting, cloud and digital signature services, fiber optic internet, digital preservation, and much more, with data centers across Europe in the UK, Germany, Czechia, Poland, Italy and France.

Bigstep’s bare metal cloud hosting provides the flexibility of cloud hosting without the associated overhead and performance reductions of virtualization. The bare metal offerings are available in data centres in the UK and Romania.

CWCS provides dedicated servers along with cloud services, as well as a variety of other solutions. CWCS has data centres across the UK, as well as North America.

All of the top 10 hosting company sites used Linux in August, making Linux clearly dominant in the top 10 throughout this year.

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