Connectivity
If network reliability is important to your business, Spherious has the answers.
Connected Hosting's servers are connected to the Connected Operations Network. This is a configuration of the highest quality. If one Internet link goes down, our servers will not loose Internet access. View our network configuration here. All Connected Hosting's servers are located in high tech data centers with backup power generators, fire protection and high tech security.
Server Configuration
Our servers are based on high-speed chips, to deliver your content at the fastest speed.
Operating System
Our servers run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Linux is a multiple user operating system and is geared towards internet connectivity and server operations.
How Our Speed Measures Up
NetMechanic, one of the Internet's best tools sites, gives Spherious servers a speed rating of 'Very Good'. NetMechanic goes further than simple ping tests (read on for why ping tests alone are not an accurate measure of speed), by downloading a notional 10K file every 15 minutes over an 8 hour period.
NetMechanic Report
Date: Tue 14 May
Time: 1:00 - 9:00 USA Eastern Time
Server Type: Apache/1.3.19
Overall Rating: Very Good
Performance Summary
Event Your Server's Average NetMechanic Average
Host Ping 43.53 millisec 609.51 millisec
DNS Look Up 0.01 sec 0.56 sec
Connect Time 0.05 sec 1.29 sec
Download Time (10k file) 0.12 sec 1.60 sec
Timeouts 0 -
Host Ping: Indicates the network speed between your server and ours.
DNS Look Up: Indicates the time required to look up your server's address in the DNS database.
Connect Time: The time required to open a network connection to your server.
Download Time (10k file): The time which would be required to download a 10k file from your server.
Number of Timeouts: The number of times your server failed to respond within 30 seconds.
The most important statistic here is download time (read on for a description of each statistic, and why some are more important than others). Connected Hosting servers rate at a whopping 13 times the average speed, incidentally better than 70% of servers tested.
Give us the test at NetMechanic. You may wish to test the speed of a site we host, as well as our own site (we do not give any priority to our web site, so the results will be similar).
Which statistics are important?
Host Ping: This is the speed of a simple ping of data from one place to another. You can run a ping from your own computer using a DOS prompt and the command 'ping www.connectedhosting.com.au'. The problem with ping is that the results change depending on how far you are away from the server you are trying to ping.
DNS Look Up: This is important as every time someone types your URL into a browser, a DNS lookup must first be performed.
Connect Time: This is important as it gives a measure of the time required to open a connection to a web server, which is required for each request.
Download Time: This is the most important statistic as it measures how long it takes to download data, as happens when a web page is accessed. This statistic also takes DNS Look Up and Connect Time into account.
Number of Timeouts: The number of times the server failed to respond. This should be 0, unless the server being tested experiences downtime during the test. If this is not 0, we suggest testing again over another 8 hours. If the results still do not show 0, there may be problems with the server you are testing.
