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04-14-2011, 08:19 AM #1Aspiring Evangelist
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Web Hosting Industry, Companies, Size ......
The Web hosting industry, is generally run by lots private companies. The information about industry in general is rather lacking.
Which company is the largest Web Hosting Provider by revenue? RackSpace? Last time i heard Softlayer were getting as much servers as Racksapce after merger with the planet.
And SoftLayer doesn't even have a page in Wiki.....
LiquidWeb? Much smaller in size i think.
Mediatemple? Revenue of 30M in 2009. That is 20 times less then Rackspace @ 600+M Revenue in 09.
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04-14-2011, 08:27 AM #2WHT Addict
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It would be indeed interesting to know the revenues of hosting companies!
I have no idea which is bigger!
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04-14-2011, 08:42 AM #3Web Hosting Evangelist
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Companies by size...
It would seem that you are sniffing around the wrong bush.
Companies like IBM, HP, Dell, Amazon, etc... are where to look.
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04-14-2011, 09:55 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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What's the point? You're not getting any of it.
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04-14-2011, 10:15 AM #5Aspiring Evangelist
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04-14-2011, 01:20 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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I think the largest conventional hosting companies by revenue are probably 1&1, GoDaddy and Endurance International.
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04-14-2011, 01:32 PM #7
HostMonk.com has estimated revenues for quite a few providers.
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04-14-2011, 01:38 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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04-14-2011, 02:29 PM #10Disabled
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Ahem; I believe you are forgetting someone...
GoDaddy.com is rated the World's largest Hosting Provider according to Netcraft.
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04-14-2011, 03:17 PM #11Aspiring Evangelist
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You must never have heard of webhosting.info ... they also list godaddy as the largest. It says wildwestdomains, but that is also godaddy.
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04-14-2011, 03:29 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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GoDaddy apparently did $750m in revenue in 2009 (quick googling reveals those figures)... I don't think they're smaller since then, but it pales in comparison to United Internet AG (1&1, Sedo, Fasthosts) which according to wikipedia has annual revenue of 1.9 billion Euros
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04-14-2011, 03:43 PM #13Retired Moderator
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Indeed, that is definitely so.
Last I recall, Godaddy was seen to have revenue of close to $1B: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/wsj-go...-billion/39057
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04-15-2011, 08:36 AM #14Aspiring Evangelist
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Yes but United Internet made money from their 3 Million ADSL subscribers and Mobile Internet... etc
According to their Financial report, they made 1.3 Billion Euros from that segment. So if we discount all other Segment they are actually smaller then RackSpace.
Godaddy has always been largest when they measure "Company provides Hosting Services" that has largest amount of Domain Registers. Personally i dont even consider they are an Hosting Company at all since most of their revenue will be made by Registration of Domain Names.
With Estimate of 800M in 2010, and 35+ Million Domains that pays $10+ dollars per year, that is ~400 Million, and revenue made from other services and other sites that is part of the group, their revenue from Hosting, again is not as larger as some claim to be.
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04-15-2011, 09:03 AM #15Junior Guru Wannabe
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You know... total revenue is great for creditors, and investors... the profit margin is where it all counts though
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04-15-2011, 06:29 PM #16Junior Guru
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Would be interesting to instead use domains hosted instead of revenue to judge the size. That's probably a better measure if you just want to see webhosting size. Most of the large companies make a large part of their revenue from other sources.
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04-16-2011, 08:23 AM #17Aspiring Evangelist
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Hostgator have to be up there somewhere?
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04-16-2011, 04:40 PM #21Newbie
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According to me you can get most of the information about a hosting company. There are enough resources on web to find about market share, domains hosted, domains registered, total servers and IP's owned by a hosting company.
webhosting dot info - Registrars and Web Hosts
dailychanges dot com - Daily domain and hosting changes
netcraft dot com - Hosting Analysis
zapdata and t1r - company research and fundamental
You cannot get the financial figures such as Revenue, net worth etc., unless its a listed company. If its listed in NYSE or any exchange you can get all the information put this in google "NYSE:RAX" you will get the financial data for Rackspace Hosting.
I would consider a webhosting company as largest depending on their market share and no.of active domains & hosts.
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04-16-2011, 04:53 PM #22Location = SoapBox
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interesting conversation, but, I need to ask - what makes a company the "largest"?
To the original poster, are you looking at # of domains? (frankly, this is a useless metric)
are you looking at total revenue? (interesting metric, but, doesnt tell you much about profitability and sustainability)
are you looking at profit margins? as a pure dollar value? (could be useful in determining size) or as a percentage? (less useful in determining size)
Anyway, I am curious why you are even asking this question.. but, aside from that, I would look at companies like IBM (yes, they are a hosting provider and a HUGE one), Other "big box" types of providers like 1&1 and Godaddy are up there - but, they arent a serious threat to anyone. Rackspace I am sure would be up there and are significant players in the managed hosting space. Peer1 might rank pretty highly as well, and again, significant player in the managed hosting space.
I guess it all depends on what you are after. You cannot just define a hosting provider as a "hosting company" any longer. The industry has diversified so much, and there are so many separate and unique industries now under the "hosting company" umbrella..www.cartika.com
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