I got my Netcraft survey today, and saw the following:


Hosting Companies with fastest increase in responding ip addresses

Hosting Company January 2002 August 2002 Change
rackshack.net 5,485 10,329 88%
cybercon.com 8,607 12,373 44%
crystaltech.com 7,109 10,188 43%
interland.net 92,052 125,589 36%
dialtoneinternet.net 24,429 32,752 34%
sphere.ad.jp 8,173 10,771 32%
he.net 9,791 12,810 31%
rackspace.com 9,419 12,176 29%


I think Robert should hire me :).

Now that's growth... :)

It's exactly double that of cybercon.com who are listed just behind them :)

WOW thats pretty good 88%..... :stickout Wish that was me :rolleyes:

Of course, the number of responding IP addresses is not 100% correlated to the number of servers...

congrats RacKShack team. you guys can always hire me. First month work as a volunteer :)

If you compare the number of IP addresses they have now compared to everyone else, they're still small. :D

Small? I wouldn't mind being that small

Originally posted by cperciva
Of course, the number of responding IP addresses is not 100% correlated to the number of servers...
Yes, this is a very good point. It is unlikely, but it's possible that the number of servers/clients could decrease but the IP usage increases. This method should not be used to determine the growth of a company.

Originally posted by rochen

Yes, this is a very good point. It is unlikely, but it's possible that the number of servers/clients could decrease but the IP usage increases. This method should not be used to determine the growth of a company.

That's silly. Of course the number of active IP Addresses is a sign of hosting company growth. If a hosting company has increased the amount of active IP space they have one of two things have happened:

1. They have added more customers.
2. Their existing customers have grown.

Either way it means the hosting company has grown, wether it is through an increase in clients, or an increase in average order size.

Originally posted by uuallan


That's silly. Of course the number of active IP Addresses is a sign of hosting company growth. If a hosting company has increased the amount of active IP space they have one of two things have happened:

1. They have added more customers.
2. Their existing customers have grown.

Either way it means the hosting company has grown, wether it is through an increase in clients, or an increase in average order size.
As I said, it's unlikely but not impossible. You could have 3 servers running with 5 IPs or you could have 1 server running with 100 IPs. Now just multiply that same principle on the scale of something like RackShack.

Originally posted by rochen

As I said, it's unlikely but not impossible. You could have 3 servers running with 5 IPs or you could have 1 server running with 100 IPs. Now just multiply that same principle on the scale of something like RackShack.

Which is the second scenario I outlined. I am willing to bet that the customer with 100 IPs is invariably paying more than the 3 servers with 4 IPs. Either way, it is indicitive of growth.

way to go rackshack keep it going!!!! hehe i love your guy's service...

Great Work Rackshack!!! 88% means something!!!

Overall all hosting companies have performed great.

This comparison is with what kind of companies. What was the source of sruvey.

Originally posted by combs
This comparison is with what kind of companies. What was the source of sruvey.

The source of the survey is Netcraft (http://www.netcraft.com/survey/). It is the same survey they have been running monthly since 1995. Details of the survey are on their site.

In general, responding IP's will be a good indication of hosting growth. The exception would be for companies that do a lot of business in name based hosting, since you could add customers without adding IPs. Rackshack does not do namebased hosting as far as I know. (although the customers of Rackshack do) Hosts that do a lot of name based hosting will not show up well in these results.

On the other hand, not every responding IP is equal. A company that gives IP's to every virtual host is treated the same as a company that signs up a colocation client and assigns that box 1 IP, in the netcraft survey. However the co-located client would probably be paying 10 times as much as the virtual host client. And Rackshack generally signs up clients that get a whole box.

The netcraft results are one tool of many to measure growth though. Congrats Rackshack!

-Gint

Wow, that is fantastic growth. Congrats to them!