Onyx Internet (www.onyx.net), a web hosting provider based in Birmingham, provides the most reliable web hosting service in the UK, according to a month-long test conducted by Webperf (www.webperf.net), an Internet performance monitoring organization, which provides monthly league table results to print and Internet publishers in the UK since 2000. The results of the test are based on performance checks on the connections of the top 300 web hosting service providers in the UK. The test was performed by measuring the real time hosting provision in terms of site availability and overall performance.
The web hosting service provided by Onyx Internet consistently achieved 100 percent availability and overall performance results during the test. The success of the company’s service during the test is at least partially due to the GBP 4-million Databanx business continuity and disaster recovery facility in Newcastle upon Tyne. The Databanx facility offers a guaranteed service for mission critical system systems that require complete power autonomy to withstand any critical circumstances.
Neil Stephenson, sales and marketing director at Onyx, said that for many companies, the website was the business and if it went down for any reason, from a simple e-mail right up to the worst-case scenario of prolonged power failure, it would spell disaster.
