Today I came across the website Netcraft.com. Which lists the most reliable web hosting companies in the world. It sorts the list according to the number of failed requests and connection time. It means they sorted the list according to their uptime, number of failures and reliability.

I’m really a bit surprised to see that list because I didn’t see the names of some web hosting companies which I assumed as the world’s best web hosting provider.

I thought these were the top five web hosting companies:

1. Yahoo
2. Network Solutions
3. GoDaddy
4. iPowerWeb
5. HostGator

When I browsed the list, surprisingly a company called INetU has topped the chat and is ranked number one and a company called New York Internet is the second. These two companies are not new to the list they topped the charts several times. Now, the third one is new to that list it’s Acens.

Top 10 Web Hosting Companies by Netcraft:

1. INetU Inc.
2. New York Internet
3. Acens
4. Easynet
5. iPowerWeb
6. GoDaddy
7. DataPipe
8. Netcetera
9. WebFusion
10. SwishMail

Want to see the full list of the best hosting providers? Then Visit Netcraft’s best Web Hosting providers list for the month of August 2007 here!

As you probably know there are many web hosting review sites on the internet and if you visit their websites then you may notice that none of the above web hosts other than GoDaddy and iPowerWeb are in their top web hosting companies list.

I used Google to search the term “Web Hosting” and the first result was Web Hosting Blue Book which reviews the Top 10 Web Hosting Companies. Then I Google search for the keyword “Web Hosting Review” and I clicked the first sponsored link for that keyword which directed me to The Hosting Chart.

Now, Which are the Top 10 Web Hosting Companies according to these two web sites.  Let’s see!

Top 10 Web Hosting Companies by Web Hosting Blue Book:

1. Host Monster
2. StartLogic
3. IX Web Hosting
4. InMotion Hosting
5. BlueHost
6. Globat
7. Lunarpages
8. Yahoo! Web Hosting
9. HostGator
10. GoDaddy

Top 10 Web Hosting Companies by The Hosting Chart:

1. IX Web Hosting
2. Host Excellence
3. Dot5Hosting
4. Vista Pages
5. BlueHost
6. AN Hosting
7. Lunarpages
8. 1 and 1 Hosting
9. iPowerWeb
10. Host Monster

Top 10 Web Hosting Companies from Google Search Results:

1. Site Ground
2. Yahoo! Web Hosting
3. 2MHost
4. Network Solutions
5. FortuneCity
6. iPowerWeb
7. UK Web Hosting
8. Bravenet
9. Bizhostnet
10. HostGator

So I guess you noted that the Top Web Hosting Companies by Netcraft is not listed in Google Search Results, Web Hosting Blue Book, and The Hosting Chart. Now which web hosting service should you choose from the above?

I really recommend HostGator. Wanna Know WHY? Click Here!

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If your site is down then you may lose potential customers and the search engines may not be able to crawl the site.

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