Each hosting provider has an internal network, which your website is connected to. Your pages must make a trip through that internal network before they are sent out to the internet and ultimately to your customers. Most others that you'll find are operating at just one-tenth that speed. Q. You mentioned reliability. A website is useless if none of your customers can get to it.
Computers fail, hard drives fail, connections fail.
At our network operations center, our engineers monitor the equipment 24 hours a day. Tape backups are made nightly, and should a hard drive fail, it can be replaced, your data restored, and your site back up and running in a matter of minutes. We do, however, recommend that you also keep backups of your website, for important off-site storage. As hardware can fail, so can connections. We peer with all major backbone providers so that if one should fail, we can quickly switch to another.