Fast Web Hosting - Is Your Host Built For Speed?

I came across an interesting site today while browsing some of the web hosting discussion forums. This website ranks the speed of hosting services both globally and by individual country. It's well worth a look if you're interested to see where your hosting provider ranks.

HostingSpeeds.com is home of the 'Hosting speeds comparison project'.  According to the site they provide "an independant and accurate 'Real World' & 'Real Time' comparison of the hosting market" based on 3 types of web host speed tests...

First, webmasters and web hosts let their site visitors perform speed checks to see how fast a 100kb page loads.  Page load rank is based on speed tests performed during the last 3 days.

Second, all users can perform server reponse time speed checks to see how much time it takes for the host servers to respond.  This test measures from 13 locations world wide simultaneously

Finally web hosts themselves can perform speed tests on their local networks to see how fast their local network can handle data.

"All results of these 3 speed tests are collected and stored in our database at hostingspeeds.com to calculate and display the speed ranks"

So I thought I'd look up one of my favorite web hosting providers, Thirdsphere Hosting  to see how fast they were performing and found them to be ranked 52 overall out of 353 hosting services listed.  I guess I'm satisfied with this result, as they perform extremely well for me and offer great customer service.  Although I'd be far more impressed with a top 20 listing!

So pay them a visit and see where your current web host ranks, but make sure to come back here to HostingDiary and leave a comment below with the results for us all to see.

Andrew

Comments

[Todd Wright]

I agree with the speed issue. You definitely get what you pay for. I use corporate quality hosting accounts at webcs.com. They are always in the top 10 of my speed tests. Highly recommended.

Also for speed, stick with linux!

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