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Bath, United Kindom - (Website Hosting Directory) Hosting and managed services firm, Rackspace, has been named by Netcraft, as one of the most reliable hosting companies for September 2008.
Closely followed by ZeroLag Communications, they were the only two sites that responded to every request made by Netcraft's performance collectors throughout the month.
Rackspace specializes in managed hosting and is well known for its promise of Fanatical Support. This is Rackspace's first appearance at the top spot this year, but the company also featured within the top ten for three months in a row between April and June.
ZeroLag Communications states that it uses high-performance technology to deliver hosting solutions for businesses who don't want to wait. The company derives its name from this aspect - the lack of lag, or delay, when users download email or web pages. Besides offering virtual hosting, dedicated servers and colocation, ZeroLag also provides T1 and T3 internet connections, web development services and security consulting. This is also ZeroLag's first appearance at the top spot this year, having made it into the top 10 in both June and July.
Last month's most reliable hosting company site, Hurricane Electric, and appears in 7th place this month.
Both Rackspace and ZeroLag Communications run Linux on their main sites. Two other companies within the top ten also use Linux, while green.ch uses F5 BIG IP and pair Networks uses FreeBSD.
Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of fifty leading hosting providers' sites. The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from separate points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.
From a customer's point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on hosting companies' own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why we choose to rank our table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage.
A recognized leader in the global managed hosting market, Rackspace Managed Hosting is a world-class service organization delivering enterprise-level web infrastructure and managed services to businesses of all sizes. Serving more than 10,000 customers across seven data centers worldwide, Rackspace integrates the industry's best technologies for each customer need and delivers it as a service via the company's award-winning Fanatical Support. Through trusted partnerships with its customers, Rackspace serves as an extension of their IT department, enabling customers to focus on their core business. Founded in 1998, Rackspace has grown more than 50 percent a year since the company's inception.
Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England, funded through retained profit and derives its revenue in the following ways: Providing internet security services, including anti-fraud and anti-phishing services, application testing, code reviews, and automated penetration testing. Providing research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet. Netcraft has explored the Internet since 1995 and is a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, encrypted transactions, electronic commerce, scripting languages and content technologies on the internet. Accepting advertising on the Netcraft web sites. Netcraft has a cosmopolitan client list, spread through the UK, the USA, mainland Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Clients include Aegon, British Telecom, Capita, John Lewis, Lloyds of London, Microsoft, Rackspace, and Securicor.
For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.
To learn more about Netcraft, please visit: http://news.netcraft.com.
Select a new dedicated server host here.
Closely followed by ZeroLag Communications, they were the only two sites that responded to every request made by Netcraft's performance collectors throughout the month.
Rackspace specializes in managed hosting and is well known for its promise of Fanatical Support. This is Rackspace's first appearance at the top spot this year, but the company also featured within the top ten for three months in a row between April and June.
ZeroLag Communications states that it uses high-performance technology to deliver hosting solutions for businesses who don't want to wait. The company derives its name from this aspect - the lack of lag, or delay, when users download email or web pages. Besides offering virtual hosting, dedicated servers and colocation, ZeroLag also provides T1 and T3 internet connections, web development services and security consulting. This is also ZeroLag's first appearance at the top spot this year, having made it into the top 10 in both June and July.
Last month's most reliable hosting company site, Hurricane Electric, and appears in 7th place this month.
Both Rackspace and ZeroLag Communications run Linux on their main sites. Two other companies within the top ten also use Linux, while green.ch uses F5 BIG IP and pair Networks uses FreeBSD.
Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of fifty leading hosting providers' sites. The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from separate points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.
From a customer's point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on hosting companies' own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why we choose to rank our table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage.
A recognized leader in the global managed hosting market, Rackspace Managed Hosting is a world-class service organization delivering enterprise-level web infrastructure and managed services to businesses of all sizes. Serving more than 10,000 customers across seven data centers worldwide, Rackspace integrates the industry's best technologies for each customer need and delivers it as a service via the company's award-winning Fanatical Support. Through trusted partnerships with its customers, Rackspace serves as an extension of their IT department, enabling customers to focus on their core business. Founded in 1998, Rackspace has grown more than 50 percent a year since the company's inception.
Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England, funded through retained profit and derives its revenue in the following ways: Providing internet security services, including anti-fraud and anti-phishing services, application testing, code reviews, and automated penetration testing. Providing research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet. Netcraft has explored the Internet since 1995 and is a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, encrypted transactions, electronic commerce, scripting languages and content technologies on the internet. Accepting advertising on the Netcraft web sites. Netcraft has a cosmopolitan client list, spread through the UK, the USA, mainland Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Clients include Aegon, British Telecom, Capita, John Lewis, Lloyds of London, Microsoft, Rackspace, and Securicor.
For more information about Rackspace Managed Hosting, please visit: www.rackspace.com.
To learn more about Netcraft, please visit: http://news.netcraft.com.
Select a new dedicated server host here.
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