An Introduction To The Globally Viable Web Hosting Solution

Internet has become a major player in everyday life and the so called 'Net' brought

all the continentals together with respect to each and every aspect of a modern life. It has reach to millions and touching the life of almost 90% of world population today.

Web hosting service means making websites available to people over internet and accessible through web browsers using an address of the site from anywhere in the world. There are numerous companies engaged in the hosting business and you should select them taking into consideration some key factors such as the technology they use, space provided, the security over internet transactions, reliability, quality and hosting fees, etc. Security over internet has become one of the most important requirements in the present day environment, since the outsourcing business gaining momentum and security threats are also increasing day by day, especially to those companies engaged in ecommerce.

There are several web hosting services such as Free hosting service, dedicated server service and hosting services, shared service, Reseller service, Managed service, Co-location hosting services, the new type of hosting services such as Cloud Hosting, Clustered hosting, grid hosting, home server services, etc. All of these are available to consumers based on their requirements and website models. If a corporate runs a major ecommerce based website they can opt for cloud hosting to ensure that their website is up all the time, which if someone is starting a new website they can opt for the shared hosting plans which cost very less.

While considering the global scenario, out of top 50 hosts, 28 are from the US and Wildwestdomains.com of the USA is with a market share of 23.5% and with more than 28 million domains occupied the top place and Smartname.com of the USA with market share of 0.24% with 289,878 domains stood at 50th position. While all the top 4 positions held by the US hosts, China's Xinnet.com stood at the 5th position with 1.77% market share.

As per the Country-wise Web Host Companies Data as of December 2010, the USA secured the top position with 22,758 hosting companies, Canada came in the second position with 2,701 and the UK came at the 3rd position with 2,609 hosting companies, while India secured the 8th position with 1,145 hosting companies. There are 43 countries globally without any hosting company.

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