HostingSpeeds.com - the hosting speeds comparison project

**janpaul** · 07-15-2005, 07:26 PM

Dear fellow Dnforum members,

I need your help to get a unique project up and running.

Today I have set up a custom-written php script called the 'HostingSpeeds.com - the Hosting speed comparison project'.

Basically it is a script that collects page download speed test results performed on the sites of registered webmasters.

The script is based on the idea that webmasters may want to know how their web host compares to other web hosts.

These registered webmasters upload a 100kb file to their site and ask their own visitors to perform speed tests on their servers. The speed tests are offered to the visitors by a piece of HTML-code.

Because these webmasters specify which hosting company they use, we write all the speed test results to the database of hosting companies.

Users can see all kinds of ranks of the web hosting companies speeds.

If a new user signs up and his/her hosting company is not in our database yet, the new user is asked to add their hosting company to the database him/herself. That way the actual speed of a fairly unlimited number of hosting companies can be calculated based on stats of one or more of their hosting clients.

Hosting companies added by users are invited to add their hosting plans to our database, so our visitors can compare hosting companies by speed and cost.

Registered webmasters can even see how their server speed is compared to other clients of that hosts.

Of course all webmaster data stays hidden.

To get things started 3 hosting companies have been added to the database.

I am looking for webmasters who want to test their actual server speed and contribute to the database by adding their site, specifying their hosting company and having their visitors perform speed checks.

This project is 100% free to use.

Thanks for your time and I hope you join the project.

Kind regards,

Jan Paul

**diraytrongcay** · 07-16-2005, 02:56 PM

This is an interesting idea and project that yo'uve put together.

**janpaul** · 07-19-2005, 04:36 PM

You are invited to join!

**diraytrongcay** · 07-19-2005, 05:00 PM

We did join, just awaiting for admin to activate.

**janpaul** · 07-19-2005, 05:03 PM

Approved your Hosting company account.
You can now add your hosting plans and install the server speed test on your site.

Glad you joined and I hope you like the script.

**janpaul** · 07-25-2005, 12:48 PM

Already 22 Hosting companies have been added to the database.

If your hosting company is not listed yet, please register as a user and submit your host for speed comparison.

Thanks for all your support up to now!

Jan Paul

**janpaul** · 08-07-2005, 11:21 AM

So far 68 Hosting companies have already been submitted and are being compared by speed and hosting plan pricing.

The list is growing steadily with 36995 pings and 277 page load speed tests already performed.

Thanks again!

Jan Paul

**janpaul** · 08-18-2005, 03:59 PM

120 Hosting companies submitted so far. Thanks for your contribution!

**janpaul** · 09-10-2005, 03:32 PM

220 so far ..... growing fast.
You're invited to submit your host for speed comparison with 220 other hosts

**janpaul** · 09-29-2005, 05:27 PM

12 days later ..... 352 web hosts in speed comparison.

You can now choose to show your web host world wide rank or it's rank by country.

We also offer advertising for web hosts since a couple of days.

The project is up to 5,500 page views per day

**janpaul** · 01-06-2009, 02:51 PM

Hi,

I hope you're al doing well and a happy new year!

It has been ages, well at least if feels like ages that I have been around here. I felt free to bump an oldie. My oldie. Why?

Remember the hostingspeeds.com project?

I forgot about it as much as you did i assume. I even neglected it and denied it. Why? I have no idea. The database holds over 3,000 existing and no longer existing web hosts.

Getting it rolling again
But I have picked the project up again. To get things rolling (again) I have an offer for the PHP programmer who will win to code hostingspeeds.com from scratch to earn 50% of the advertising revenue.

It works! 4 PHP programmers have said yes so far, so the project is rolling again!

Before the PHP programmer that wins this challenge gets selected after January 31, 2009, web hosts out there are invited to post in the forums which speed tests the PHP programmer has to code, how speed should be measured eactly and how rankings would be most fair.

There's also a contest for a web designer, so if you happen to know a PHP programmer or a designer or are lucky to have one or both of these skils, take a look at join.

Feel free to hop in and share your thoughts on the coding part at http://www.hostingspeeds.com/ and the forum at http://www.hostingspeeds.com/community/index.php

Cheers,

jp