May

HostPapa, HostGator, DreamHost, GoDaddy & 1and1 Comparison - First Uptime Results

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The first uptime results for my comparison between five of the most popular web hosts are in. I’ve got myself a web hosting account with HostGator, HostPapa, 1and1, GoDaddy and Dreamhost so I could see what it really is to host with them.

Since then, I’ve monitored their servers using WhatsUp Gold from IpSwitch. Of course, I can’t monitor all their servers so I monitored those on which I have an account. In order to make the test more accurate, I’ve also monitored the last hop before each provider’s network (this could be a router, a switch, etc.). If this hop was unreachable, then this wouldn’t be counted as a downtime for the web server.

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I have also decided to monitor panel.dreamhost.com since their control panel hosted on another server.

For each of these servers I tried to monitor as much services as possible, including:

HTTP & HTTPS
SMTP
POP3
IMAP
MySQL
FTP

Each servers and their respective services were polled every minute.

In some cases, one or more of these services were hosted on a different server behind a firewall so I couldn’t monitor them. For example, GoDaddy’s MySQL servers are only accessible from their web servers.

So here are the results so far:

	HostGator	HostPapa	GoDaddy	DreamHost	1and1
Uptime	99.95%	99.94%	97.14%	99.93%	99.98%
Down Time	0:12	0:08	11:28	0:10	0:03
Average Response Time (millisec.)	68	25	107	104	73
Min. Response Time (millisec.)	57	19	90	88	63
Max. Response Time (millisec.)	1181	1150	1228	1237	1184

While it’s still early to draw a conclusion, here what one could think of these statistics:

HostPapa has the fastest response time
1and1 has the best uptime (although 0.03% doesn’t make a big difference)
GoDaddy has the worst uptime and the longest downtime

I will keep monitoring these servers and post more details in about a month. In the meantime I will perform some benchmark tests to see which ones performs best.

Stay tuned!

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