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Hosting Provider Comparison

Real-world performance comparison of the
most popular web hosting providers.

There are many tools available for testing ping returns from a fixed location to a specified domain. But this is of little relevance when assessing the ability of a web hosting provider to reliably and consistently serve your web site to a nationwide or global audience.

It is unlikely that visitors will be accessing your web site from the same location, or utilizing the same connectivity as the test server. It is also unlikely that the individual server being pinged would actually host your web site, should you choose your hosting provider based upon such results.

An accurate test would include multiple pings from different geographic locations. The pings would be random and the querying servers would be on different networks with separate connectivity. Tests would be performed across a range of IP addresses on the web hosting provider's subnet, and this would be done over an extended period. To avoid anomalies, the highest and lowest figures should be discarded, and remaining results would be averaged.

The following chart, organized alphabetically, provides ping returns for the 50 most popular web hosting providers. Results are calculated by pinging random IP addresses from each provider's subnet 10 times at 10 random intervals throughout each 24-hour period. The test is performed from multiple servers in different geographic locations across North America, South America, Asia and Europe. Results are then averaged over 7 days.

Hosting Provider Average Global Ping Return Time (milliseconds)
50megs
285
Alabanza
280
APlus.Net
287
ApolloHosting
265
AppSiteHosting
271
Bravenet
305
Brinkster
284
BroadSpire
295
DataPipe
271
DataRealm
387
Hosting Provider Average Global Ping Return Time (milliseconds)
DataReturn
262
Doteasy
408
Dotster
275
DreamHost
288
Easyspace
268
FastVirtual
252
FortuneCity
256
GoDaddy
276
HostCentric
363
HostDepartment
304
Hosting Provider Average Global Ping Return Time (milliseconds)
HostDepot
325
HostDime
273
Hosting.com
286
HostMySite
268
HostRocket
288
Hostway
268
Infinology
339
Interland/HostPro
329
iPowerWeb
282
Jumpline
257
Hosting Provider Average Global Ping Return Time (milliseconds)
LexiConn
264
Lunarpages
303
Media3
276
Netfirms
308
NetNation
311
NetSonic
295
NetworkSolutions
268
OLM
274
Plugit.com
293
ProHosting
278
Hosting Provider Average Global Ping Return Time (milliseconds)
PureHost
286
RackSpace
283
SBC/WebHosting
297
SkyNetWEB
313
Superb.net
343
Tripod/Lycos
294
ValueWeb/Affinity
266
Verio
298
WebIntellects
324
Yahoo! Small Business
287

- Lower millisecond figures (shorter bars) represent faster response times.
- FastVirtual is required to honor requests to be removed from this comparison.

Source: NetMechanic

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