{"id":887,"date":"2016-07-30T01:04:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T01:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/?p=887"},"modified":"2016-07-30T01:21:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T01:21:35","slug":"internet-and-web-hosting-industry-at-a-glance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/internet-and-web-hosting-industry-at-a-glance\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet and Web Hosting Industry at a Glance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-894\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/domain-1345116_640.jpg\" alt=\"domain\" width=\"640\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/domain-1345116_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/domain-1345116_640-300x260.jpg 300w, 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3,424,971,237<\/li>\n<li>2014 \u2026 2,956,385,569<\/li>\n<li>2010 \u2026 2,023,202,974<\/li>\n<li>2005 \u2026 1,030,101,289<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-896\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/system-1527679_640.jpg\" alt=\"web hosting providers\" width=\"640\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/system-1527679_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/system-1527679_640-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/system-1527679_640-512x228.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Number of web hosting providers \u2026 unknown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>True reviews on Top Ten web hosting review sites \u2026 Zero <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recommended review sites<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webhostingtalk.com\">www.webhostingtalk.com (WHT)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostingdiscussion.com\">www.hostingdiscussion.com<\/a> (HD)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmastersun.com\">www.webmastersun.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewhell.com\">www.reviewhell.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The best web hosting for you \u2026 depends on a lot of factors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Specific resource requirements<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CPU\n<ul>\n<li>Dual Core<\/li>\n<li>Quad Core<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>I\/O<\/li>\n<li>RAM\n<ul>\n<li>DDR3<\/li>\n<li>DDR4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Bandwidth\n<ul>\n<li>Metered<\/li>\n<li>Unmetered<\/li>\n<li>95<sup>th<\/sup> percentile<\/li>\n<li>Commit?<\/li>\n<li>Limited or unlimited<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Location\n<ul>\n<li>Target audience<\/li>\n<li>Global<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>DDoS Protection?\n<ul>\n<li>CloudFlare<\/li>\n<li>Provided by host<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Number of IP 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512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Types of web hosting services<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shared\n<ul>\n<li>Many users sharing same IP address<\/li>\n<li>Many users sharing CPU and RAM resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>VPS\n<ul>\n<li>Cores?<\/li>\n<li>RAM?<\/li>\n<li>Hard Drive Space?<\/li>\n<li>Bandwidth?<\/li>\n<li>KVM?<\/li>\n<li>OpenVZ?<\/li>\n<li>Oversold?<\/li>\n<li>Dedicated CPU cores<\/li>\n<li>Dedicated RAM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dedicated Servers\n<ul>\n<li>CPU?<\/li>\n<li>RAM?<\/li>\n<li>IP addresses?<\/li>\n<li>Operating System\n<ul>\n<li>Windows<\/li>\n<li>Linux<\/li>\n<li>Other<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Hard drive\n<ul>\n<li>SSD<\/li>\n<li>SATA<\/li>\n<li>Size<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Collocation\n<ul>\n<li>Cost per U<\/li>\n<li>Cost per rack (42U)<\/li>\n<li>Carrier Neutral?<\/li>\n<li>Crash cart?<\/li>\n<li>Remote Hands?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Cloud\n<ul>\n<li>Can scale rapidly<\/li>\n<li>Suited for seasonal retail 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