Hi people!!

okay, can anybody help???

Does anyone know....

"Estimated" how much the hosting Industry is worth?
can you provide a source? if possible.

can anyone also tell me anywere i can go for stats along these lines???


Thanks People

P.s. need it for marketing purposes

I personally have no idea but you maybe able to find out on www.thewhir.com

well Thanks for the advice tazd9t9

Can any tell me if this sound reasonable?

"analysts predict that the $5.4 billion hosting sector will continue to grow, albeit at a slower pace, to $12.3 billion a year by 2004."

Source: Thewhir.com

Thanks Once again!

Sounds ok to me - its really hard to say since so much of the hosting sector is, by its nature, unreported.

Especially today it's very easy for any 14-year old to start his own hosting company, and unfortunatley customers are easily fooled into going with them. This makes for two possible outcomes:

1) Happy Customer: Revenue Never Reported
2) Unhappy Customer: Lost from Market...

This could start a totally different debate.... :-)

But is there no official body to regulate The hosting industry?

Like a Union for webhost customers? Would be a Good idea do u not think???

Thanks!

that's come up a few times in the past, and in some cases organizations were started. They've usually ended up being 'boys clubs' and lacking any real authority.

I think it's a good idea on paper, but the internet as a whole is impossible to fully regulate, legally or otherwise so I'm not sure it will ever happen.

As for the WHIR quote that sounds believable to me - though with no other facts to back up my opinion. It's still growing, and most people are over that dot.boom craze idea now.

Greg Moore

$6.9 Billion? That is slow? Ha.

well, with about 100,000 domains being registered daily, The hosting biz is still semi profitable.