RealMetrics, LLC, an industry leading Internet publisher of detailed performance reviews, today announced the selection of their September 2006 Top Hosting Performers. Each month RealMetrics selects top performers based on the actual accounts which are monitored with each hosting provider. RealMetrics monitors online service providers of Shared Hosting, VPS Hosting and Email Hosting for reliability, speed and technical support response time.

Wichita, Kansas, October 20, 2006 - RealMetrics monitors and reports uptime, speed and technical support of web hosting companies by establishing actual hosting accounts and then conducting systematic tests all day, every day. The top ranked web hosting companies for September 2006 have been selected for their top performance in Web Speed, CPU Speed and Disk Speed.

• Easy CGI, Shared Hosting Web Speed (August award winner for Uptime)
  
• EV1Servers, VPS Hosting Web Speed (3 month consecutive winner for VPS Web Speed)
  
• RimuHosting, VPS Hosting CPU Speed (3 month consecutive winner for CPU Speed)
  
• VPSLAND, VPS Hosting Disk Speed (2 month consecutive winner for VPS Disk Speed)
  

September 2006 was a tough month on web hosting providers as none of the RealMetrics accounts were able to maintain 100% Uptime for the entire month. The RealMetrics methodology tests Uptime every 30 seconds from 6 different locations across the U.S. and Canada. The Uptime metrics requires at least 50 percent of the monitoring locations to indicate a site is down before it is recorded as down.

About RealMetrics, LLC
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