{"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, https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/domain-1345116_640-512x444.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/domain-1345116_640-70x60.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Registered domains<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Across all TLDs \u2026 326 million<\/p>\n<p>Growth rate in fourth quarter of 2015 \u2026 3.8% (or 12 million)<\/p>\n<p>Redirecting during that time frame (.com and .net)\u00a0 \u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To LinkedIn \u2026 up 35%<\/li>\n<li>To Weibo (Chinese social media site) \u2026 up 49%<\/li>\n<li>To Amazon, Facebook, Twitter and Etsy \u2026 up between 23% and 30%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Percentage of the world with a connection to the Internet \u2026 40%<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The increase between 1999 and 2013 \u2026 tenfold<\/p>\n<p>In 1995, the percentage of the world that was connected \u2026 less than 1%<\/p>\n<p>The number of Internet users \u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2016 \u2026 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 addresses\n<ul>\n<li>IPv4<\/li>\n<li>IPv6<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Managed or unmanaged\n<ul>\n<li>Basic management<\/li>\n<li>Fully managed<\/li>\n<li>Managed WordPress<\/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>Port Speed\n<ul>\n<li>10Mbps<\/li>\n<li>100Mbps<\/li>\n<li>1Gbps<\/li>\n<li>10Gbps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Operating system\n<ul>\n<li>Linux<\/li>\n<li>Windows<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Monitored?\n<ul>\n<li>Every minute<\/li>\n<li>Every 5 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Other interval<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Control Panel\n<ul>\n<li>cPanel<\/li>\n<li>DirectAdmin<\/li>\n<li>Plesk<\/li>\n<li>Other<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Cost\n<ul>\n<li>Budget\n<ul>\n<li>Old hardware<\/li>\n<li>Poor support<\/li>\n<li>Increased downtime<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Competitive\n<ul>\n<li>Newer hardware<\/li>\n<li>Better support<\/li>\n<li>Good uptime<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Backups\n<ul>\n<li>Incremental<\/li>\n<li>Daily<\/li>\n<li>Every 48 hours<\/li>\n<li>Mirrored<\/li>\n<li>Offsite<\/li>\n<li>Other<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>RAID Array \u2026 software or hardware\n<ul>\n<li>RAID 0 (not recommended)<\/li>\n<li>RAID 1 (very common)<\/li>\n<li>RAID 10 (need 4 drives)<\/li>\n<li>Note: RAID is NOT a backup solution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/cloud-computing-626252_640.png\" alt=\"cloud hosting\" width=\"640\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/cloud-computing-626252_640.png 640w, https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/cloud-computing-626252_640-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/cloud-computing-626252_640-512x268.png 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 sales<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-891\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/wordpress-1495180_640.jpg\" alt=\"wordpress\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/wordpress-1495180_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/wordpress-1495180_640-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/wordpress-1495180_640-512x341.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>WordPress installations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Global market share \u2026 50% to 60%<\/p>\n<p>WordPress posts published per second \u2026 17<\/p>\n<p>Google searches for WordPress (per month) \u2026 37,000,000<\/p>\n<p>Percentage of new domains running on WordPress (USA) \u2026 22%<\/p>\n<p>Preference as a CMS (USA)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WordPress \u2026 50%<\/li>\n<li>Drupal \u2026 17%<\/li>\n<li>Joomla \u2026 6%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Number of WordPress blogs \u2026 over 76 million<\/p>\n<p>Number of WordPress sites that are launched every day \u2026 50,000<\/p>\n<p>Percentage of WordPress blogs that are written in English \u2026 71%<\/p>\n<p>Most requested freelancing skill in the world \u2026 WordPress<\/p>\n<p>Percentage of WordPress sites running on the latest version \u2026 22%<\/p>\n<p>Cost of an average WordPress theme \u2026 $40<\/p>\n<p>Number of WordPress.org plugin downloads \u2026 over 1 Billion<\/p>\n<p>Number of official WordPress plugins \u2026 over 40,000<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-890\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Internet.jpg\" alt=\"Internet\" width=\"640\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Internet.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Internet-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Internet-512x362.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Internet-211x150.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Data Centers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Worldwide datacenter space<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2013 \u2026 1.58 billion square feet<\/li>\n<li>2018 \u2026 projected to be 1.94 billion square feet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Number of datacenters in the US \u2026 3,000,000<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of cloud data centers that are hosted by the US and China \u2026 54%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brought to you by ProlimeHost<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been in the web hosting industry for ten years, helping hundreds of clients succeed in what they do best and that\u2019s running their business. 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