Alternatives and competitors
Sites like ntppool.org
The 20 closest network time service alternatives to ntppool.org, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 6 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to ntppool.org? The closest matches are NTP, Netnod and int08h.com. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 6 ms
01 · Entity
About ntppool.org
ntppool.org
pool.ntp.org: the internet cluster of ntp servers
Summary by Claude
A volunteer-run virtual cluster of public NTP time servers that provides network time synchronization to devices via DNS (pool.ntp.org), and lets server operators add their own servers to the pool.
- Who it’s for
- System administrators, Linux distributions, device vendors
- Business model
- Volunteer-run, donated hosting
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to ntppool.org’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to ntppool.org
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to ntppool.org, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
NTP: Network Time Protocol
The NTP Project conducts Research and Development in NTP, a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network to a common timebase.
Very close cos 0.918 - 02
Start | Netnod
internet exchange in Sweden
Close cos 0.888 - 03
int08h
Close cos 0.883 - 04
NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
Close cos 0.883 - 05
Syncthing
open source continuous file synchronization software
Close cos 0.877 - 06
Let's Encrypt
Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Read all about our work in our Annual Report.
Close cos 0.872 - 07
IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the premier Internet standards body, developing open standards through open processes.
Close cos 0.868 - 08
OVHcloud
OVHcloud is a global, cloud provider delivering hosted private cloud, public cloud, and dedicated server solutions trusted by over 1.5 million developers.
Close cos 0.869 - 09
Virtualmin — Open Source Web Hosting Control Panel
Powerful and flexible web hosting control panel for Linux and BSD systems
Close cos 0.867 - 10
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Close cos 0.868 - 11
virtual private network provider
Close cos 0.864 - 12
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上海贝锐信息科技股份有限公司打造了向日葵远程控制、蒲公英异地组网、花生壳内网穿透三大产品矩阵，集三大产品核心优势推出连接解决方案赋能千行百业。
Close cos 0.862 - 13
Build, manage, & optimize real-time apps at scale | PubNub
Power your real-time app with PubNub - the world's largest pub/sub network. Scale to 3 trillion API calls/month, with <30ms global delivery. Start building now!
Close cos 0.863 - 14
YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Close cos 0.866 - 15
Node.js — Run JavaScript Everywhere
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
Close cos 0.863 - 16
NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.
Close cos 0.863 - 17
How-To Geek - We Explain Technology
We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.
Close cos 0.867 - 18
Client Challenge
American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos
Close cos 0.863 - 19
The Green End Organisation
Home of the Sinister Green End Organisation
Close cos 0.860 - 20
Chess.com - Play Chess Online - Free Games
Play chess online for free on Chess.com with over 250 million members from around the world. Have fun playing with friends or challenging the computer!
Close cos 0.861
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to ntppool.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones ntppool.org uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What ntppool.org is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-dfw-kdal2120073-DFW, cache-ber1080057-BER
- Email hosting
- Fastmail MX in1-smtp.messagingengine.com
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 ip4:34.209.80.29 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.messagin…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=O60kZMoa5mBPIKKqd9FSRXcGUhU6s3rzZHzWN…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Do9-mACCn0BpHhV_ZFUM3gRVxsvJqG-sSDlK8KLotfw
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=hz17ucmiuv4gg8f164437wou24ro4r
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what ntppool.org adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- Google Workspace 6/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on ntppool.org 5/20
- GlobalSign 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on ntppool.org 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on ntppool.org 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on ntppool.org 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on ntppool.org 3/20
- Matomo · not on ntppool.org 3/20
- Zendesk · not on ntppool.org 3/20
- Fastly 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on ntppool.org 3/20
- nginx · not on ntppool.org 3/20
- Next.js · not on ntppool.org 3/20
- React · not on ntppool.org 3/20
- Cloudflare · not on ntppool.org 3/20