I'm having this discussion with a friend. Anyhow, does anyone know what the largest hosting company in Canada is? I'm guessing perhaps webhosting.com?

Either webhosting.com or tera-byte.com...:)

Thanks. Looks like I won :)

Look out for Q9 and Net Nation... they are coming close....

Chris

Originally posted by 311
Either webhosting.com or tera-byte.com...:)

Unless they have dramatically improved over the last year and a half, I'd stay away from webhosting.com I'll be fair: they are under new management/ownership now so maybe they are better. When I had them between 97-99 they had problems with outages and billing. (The story I could tell the nightmare they put me and others through by referring all customers to a collection agency...)

isn't Superb up in Canada too? They must have a healthy figures by now.

Greg Moore

netnation
radiant.net
superb.net
combustion
tera-byte
webhosting.com

(The story I could tell the nightmare they put me and others through by referring all customers to a collection agency...)
Please do tell....

another canadian company http://www.pjmco.ca

BinaryBlocks as well is Canadian based, run from them fast. I signed up, everything went pretty good except support was oh, not there.

I got emails from them apologizing blaming it on a hospital stay then the move (from Toronto to New Brunswick). My site was down for 2 whole days, no email no nothing. It went back up with no support email apologizing.

Then a "root" email came out explaining their move and the timing of things.

In three weeks I had already earned 2 months of free hosting. I cancelled my account on April 19th...I have heard NOTHING back from them - going to do a chargeback of the fee today.

What did I learn? No more paying annual fees (Binary Blocks and Aletia) as you tend to get screwed.

Trish :blush:

webhosting.com is no longer run by a canadian company. it is now fully owned by SBC.

Netnation isnt bigger than tera-byte??

its gotta be netnation

http://www.netnation.com
http://www.netnation.co.uk
http://www.netnation.ca

there are probally others aswell

Q9.net has the best network/datacenters and they might be the biggest but I cannot attest, though their sales VP said they had the biggest marketshare...dont forget about Telus either, they are pretty big.

Tera-byte would probably be the biggest shared hosting company

Q9/Bell/Telus would probably be the biggest infrastructure owners (colocating and dedicated).

tera-byte.com

No offense to them, but if you count paying customers only, they are not that big. At least compared to some of the others listed.

If we want to define it as internet services no I suppose we are not that large in Canada, for example Shaw has over 800,000 cable modem subscribers, I'm sure if we add up all Telus dialup users you would be well over a million subscribers. As far as bandwidth goes in Canada I don't have the capacity of Bell, Telus or Sprint. But if we want to measure paying customers for web hosting services I have 111,818 paying customers, if we want to define it as customers we have in excess of 2 million, if we want to define it as bandwidth utilization for internet traffic I average over 130 Megs a second. So as far as "Canada's largest web host" goes Ill continue to make that claim until I'm told otherwise by one of the other companies listed above.

Steve Keyser
CEO
Tera-byte Dot Com Inc

Keeg has a good point. Are you referring to bandwidth usage, number of customers, or revenue? NetNation is a public company under the symbol NNCI. Their revenue can be viewed here: http://www.hoovers.com/quarterlies/5/0,2167,101175,00.html

I don't believe Superb.net is publicly traded so you would have a hard time getting the same information for them. My guess is it comes down to Tera-Byte, Superb.net, and NetNation not in that order. Unless all the major companies are public and have to release the information it's really anyone’s guessing game.

Originally posted by TrishM

What did I learn? No more paying annual fees (Binary Blocks and Aletia) as you tend to get screwed.


Yeah. Binaryblocks has poor customer support. Had receive so many explanations but they seem rather unapologetic. Anyway, thankfully I got my annual fees refunded. Now still trying to get control of my domain.

Size really depends on the metric. I think for this discussion, you mean the number of actual customers or websites hosted:

In term of customers, Telus, Q9 are just datacenter providers. They probably have a combined total of less than 400 "datacenter" customers.

In terms of actual customers, I would think, Netfirms, Superb, Tera-byte, Softcomca have thousands of customers. But since they are all private companies, there is really no way to check.

The thing to remeber is that most of these companies have only
some of their customers in Canada. The majority is international. So the comparison should be really is who is the biggest in North America.

webhosting.com is no longer a Canadian company. It was fully purchased and operated by SBC Communications (a San Antonio, Texas company) early in 2002.

hosting.ca, is pretty big I think also.

Strange . . . . . . ginto digs up a five month old thread. And then has problems posting to it. :eek:

...and repeats what someone else all ready said ; )

Lol, I just noticed that, as before I just responded to the title.

www.hostopia.com of TO, had sales of $3,178,903USD

There really isn't any way to know who the largest is without defining largest. I think the question can only be answered if "largest" is defined.

Most customers? Most revenue? Most bandwidth? Most employees...... biggest offices???

MCHost is based in Canada. I believe. :)

webhosting.com is no longer a Canadian company. It was fully purchased and operated by SBC Communications (a San Antonio, Texas company) early in 2002.
I already said that...

MCHost is based in Canada. I believe.
really?

Originally posted by ChickenFart
really?

Yep. :) west coast. :) I believe.

Originally posted by Pm2Manager


Unless they have dramatically improved over the last year and a half, I'd stay away from webhosting.com I'll be fair: they are under new management/ownership now so maybe they are better. When I had them between 97-99 they had problems with outages and billing. (The story I could tell the nightmare they put me and others through by referring all customers to a collection agency...)

Had a friend who worked there (Toronto).

He mentioned something about management being flipped upside down, it got bad enough for him to leave.

I believe he stated their servers were all in New Jersey, and that they had remote links up in the TO office.

Seems like only the businesses reside in Canada, while the hardware/bandwidth is in the U.S.