Hostway Corporation, a leading provider of web hosting and managed services, has been chosen by Netcraft as the most reliable hosting company site for the second month in a row. Netcraft is a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, encrypted transactions, electronic commerce, scripting languages and content technologies on the Internet.

The award is based on the lowest number of failed requests and speed of connection time. The purpose of using these two measurements is to give the clearest indication of network capacity and congestions, with the least impact from the performance of the companies' own web servers.

    "Our customers' number one priority is having their Web sites up and running.  At Hostway, we're no different.  Netcraft's acknowledgement of our reliability reiterates our drive to provide our customers 99.99% uptime," said John Lee, vice president of marketing for Hostway.

    The performance measurements are taken every fifteen minutes from eight separate points around the Internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24-hour period. Netcraft believes that customers place more importance on the percentage of failed requests than outages on a hosting companies' site, since this gives an indication to the reliability of routing.

    Visit http://www.hostway.com to read more about the Netcraft ranking. Hostway has been consistently recognized as a leading Web hosting provider by online hosting resources. TopHosts has ranked Hostway as the number-one hosting provider from 2000-2005. Web Host Directory has also rated Hostway the number one E-commerce Hosting Provider for the last three years.