Netcraft's Most Reliable Hosting Providers (September)

Netcraft just released their Most Reliable Hosting Providers survey for the month of September.



And the survey says:

"The dominant operating system was Windows, with six of the top most reliable sites running on a Microsoft operating system, evenly split between Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000."

While Netcraft's Web Server Survey clearly shows Apache Server as the clear choice for web server software and Microsoft trailing as a distant second, it appears that the Windows machines are more reliable to run that software on.



They did have to tweak the results this month due to the weather in Florida. Outages caused by hurricanes and floods are absent from the list, however Alabanza experienced a major outage due to an underground fire near its datacenter. The Alabanza fire disrupted service of 188,000+ hosts for about 2 days.