The Kattare Network

Our Goal

Our goal here at Kattare is to achieve the best possible web site performance on a global scale. Because our target audience is first the world, and second the USA, we have strategically located our datacenter in a location with good transit times to anywhere in the world. In addition, we have very carefully picked upline providers that have their own international networks, virtually ensuring the fastest possible response times. Anyone can be fast within the US, but it takes planning and diligence to get good results internationally.

Graphing Data From Netcraft

Most organizations recognize Netcraft (www.netcraft.com) as a premier source of information about the internet. One of the statistics Netcraft tracks is round trip IP transit times to over 50 of the top web hosts. The following graph is compiled in near realtime by harvesting the data off of Netcraft's uptime server. (see: uptime.netcraft.com) We would have liked to graph the results of some of our more direct competitors (MMA, Servlets.Net, KGB Internet, etc.) but Netcraft doesn't seem to track any of them.

We re-generate this graph approximately every 1/2 hour. Since it depends heavily on the html formatting of the Netcraft website, it's been know to break occasionally, so if it's broken, please email support@kattare.com and let us know!

Interesting Notes About The Graph

-- Netcraft has more East Coast and European monitoring points than West Coast, Asia, or Austrailian monitoring points. Thus the monitoring system is weighted heavily in favor of hosts on the East Coast, USA and Western Europe.

-- Some of the results are skewed because a monitoring point is near to the web host being monitored. (or possibly is even hosted there.)