Tue, 3rd Feb 2009

Aplus.net, New York Internet, and ZeroLag Communications were the most reliable hosting company sites during January 2009. These sites responded to all of the requests made by Netcraft's performance collectors throughout the month, with no failed requests.

Aplus.net was founded in 1992 as Abacus America, Inc., and began offering Internet services in 1995 and hosting services in 1998. Aplus' web site states that they have 250 employees, over 100,000 customers and 6,000 dedicated server customers. They run Apache on FreeBSD, and last made the top spot in June 2008.

New York Internet also runs Apache on FreeBSD site, and was also tied for first last month.

ZeroLag Communications is a Los Angeles-based company that offers virtual hosting, dedicated servers and colocation, as well as T1 and T3 internet connections, web development services and security consulting. Their corporate site runs lighttpd, and they were joint first in September 2008.

Freely available operating systems dominate the top ten this month with four sites each running FreeBSD and Linux.