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07-06-2002, 12:18 AM #1Junior Guru
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This industry!
How much exactly is spent on web hosting per year across the world? I mean, is this just a multi million or a billion dollar industry?
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07-06-2002, 12:19 AM #2Doh!!
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Are you kidding? This is a multi BILLION $$$ a year industry.
Jay
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07-06-2002, 12:21 AM #3Eternal Member
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All those sites you see need to go somewhere.
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07-06-2002, 12:33 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by NetXL
All those sites you see need to go somewhere.
I came from the building industry that was shrinking and becoming too regulated by the government. It's a nice change of environment. WLVPN.com NetProtect owned White Label VPN provider
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07-06-2002, 12:42 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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It's not just the hosting that is associated with this business. Remember, before you can buy a hosting plan, the company you choose must first buy the servers. Those should be accounted for in the same equation. It is definitely in the billions if not higher. I'd take a million and be happy. Now what's the harm in that?
- Mark
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07-06-2002, 12:50 AM #6Junior Guru
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I was just curious of the industry really.
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07-06-2002, 12:02 PM #7Newbie
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A variety of research groups have attempted to quantify the spending in the hosting market. I've analyzed most of this research from Ovum, IDC, Mainspring, and Forrester. Here are my year-by-year estimates. The prior years are pretty accurate since they're based on actual performance. However, I've also made guesses at some of the numbers in the event I couldn't find a specific source. Note: all figures are in billions of dollars. I've also cited the source of the data.
1999 - 1.8 (IDC)
2000 - 4.0 (IDC)
2001 - 10.3 (Ovum)
2002 - 14.6 (Extrapolated)
2003 - 18.9 (IDC)
2004 - 19.8 (Forrester)
2005 - 32.9 (Extrapolated)
2006 - 46.0 (Ovum)
As far as I'm concerned, 2005 and 2006 are weak guesses. Another key metric that you have to look at is the number of new domains registered. My estimates indicate that the growth in new domains is decreasing, so it's hard to say that the hosting market will boom to 46B in 2006. Still, you never know...
Hope this helps.
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07-06-2002, 12:53 PM #8Disabled
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Within the next few years the economies of the world will collapse and anarchy will reign...
Invest in canned food and bullets...
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07-06-2002, 01:20 PM #9Aspiring Evangelist
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Originally posted by aquick
As far as I'm concerned, 2005 and 2006 are weak guesses. Another key metric that you have to look at is the number of new domains registered. My estimates indicate that the growth in new domains is decreasing, so it's hard to say that the hosting market will boom to 46B in 2006. Still, you never know...
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07-06-2002, 03:16 PM #10Newbie
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I agree.
The question is: how will the saturation in the market slow down/end?
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07-06-2002, 03:44 PM #11Web Hosting Evangelist
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Originally posted by aquick
I agree.
The question is: how will the saturation in the market slow down/end?
The answer that I'm sure a lot of people will give you (even though I don't agree with it) is the end of Cogent.Jay » jay@frontdrive.com AIM » FDrive Support
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07-06-2002, 03:57 PM #12Newbie
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Never heard that one before. Help me make the connection... I don't see it..
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07-06-2002, 08:22 PM #13Web Hosting Master
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Cogent provides bandwidth alot cheaper than providers with real backbones. This allows companies like Rackshack to provide $99 servers, and other companies to provide very low-cost colocation.
When Cogent dies, it will force Cogent-only providers* to sign on with real backbone providers, which will raise the bandwidth costs of the data center providers. They will have to pass these additional costs to their hosting customers, who will have to pass it on to their customers...and prices will raise.
* Yea, yea, Rackshack has 20 million providers...yada yada
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07-06-2002, 08:28 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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I agree that cognet may look a little bit unsteady now... BUT i highly doubt that they are going to be going out of buisness. I heard somewhere that they are trying to increase the quality of their services drastically, and by 2004 they should be making profits. I am sure that at least by 2003, early 2004 cognet will have made many changes that will increase the quality of their service, yet keep prices low. Especially after 2004 when they are actually making big profits, they will have the money to expand.
Just my 2 cents
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07-06-2002, 08:30 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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Its great that they plan to turn a profit by 2004, its a shame they only have enough money to last through the middle of 2003.
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07-06-2002, 10:05 PM #16Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by bambenek
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07-06-2002, 10:07 PM #17Web Hosting Master
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07-07-2002, 01:17 AM #18Junior Guru Wannabe
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07-07-2002, 01:32 AM #19Web Hosting Master
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Intel recently retreated from web hosting. Enough said.
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07-07-2002, 08:08 AM #20Newbie
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Yep. And the day before Intel made that announcement, EDS announced they were buying LoudCloud's managed hosting business for $63M and LoudCloud is going back to developing automation software (Opsware, which is what LoudCloud is going to call themselves once the transaction is complete).
I'm amazed that IBM has fared so well in this market. They don't own an internet backbone yet they manage more data centers than anyone....
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07-07-2002, 09:21 AM #21Web Hosting Master
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hehe, i always thought you were a builder
But your picture reminds me of crocodile dundee lol
No offence, its meant to be a compliment.
Originally posted by Aussie Bob
Yep. It's a great place to be.
I came from the building industry that was shrinking and becoming too regulated by the government. It's a nice change of environment.
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07-07-2002, 09:30 AM #22Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by edude
hehe, i always thought you were a builder
But your picture reminds me of crocodile dundee lol
No offence, its meant to be a compliment.
......knife WLVPN.com NetProtect owned White Label VPN provider
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07-07-2002, 10:08 AM #23Web Hosting Master
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07-07-2002, 02:46 PM #24Aspiring Evangelist
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I don't think cogent's success or failure will do much to the saturation issue. Remember the old days when we paid $400+ for servers and get about 50-60 gigs of transfer. Now you get 500+ gigs for less than $200 per month. So even if cogent is gone, those datacenters are still having their price wars and will still offer cheaper servers -- although with probably less bandwidth than they do now.
I personally think that the end of the saturation will come gradually when more and more people stop believing that leasing a server will make them millionairs overnight.
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07-07-2002, 03:12 PM #25Aspiring Evangelist
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Originally posted by bambenek
Within the next few years the economies of the world will collapse and anarchy will reign...
Invest in canned food and bullets...