Is the hosting boom over?

If I could just find the article I was reading the other day you would realise that the hosting boom has just begun.

If you can find it I'd love to read it.

Thanks.

Is the "hosting boom" over? Definitely not in my book.

It was just an article on how storage space for the internet will be increasing dramatically and it named some big internet companies (hosting and others) who were buying terabytes (like between 50 - 100) of storage space.

Ravi

I agree. It's just beginning IMO.

Ravi - Seems like you're talking about the major corporate sites. They don't deal with Mom&Pop hosting agents and resellers. Those guys can afford network and web specials to buy their own servers.

The question is: What's the market forcast for host agents and resllers?

Still though, as hosting gets bigger you're going to find it will weed out all the weaker companies (like the drop in the nasdaq did to alot of internet companies) and the strongest will survive.

The hosting industry seems like it is being saturated with alot of "individuals" who are buying servers and calling themself some kinda of hosting company. Everyone seems to be doing that now. I think we need bigger hosting companies with wide varieties of packages, with excellent support.

Ravi

[Edited by Ravi Pachai on 09-21-2000 at 04:05 PM]

Ravi,

To futher play Devil's Advocate, consider a company with a rather large web budget (however much you consider large).

Do you really think they're going to sign up with Johnny Q. Smith's A1 Hosting instead of buying a dedicated server at a server farm?? Perhaps if the web manager is a friend of John Smith or John Smith is the CEO's nephew, but I tend to doubt it otherwise.

Quote: Originally posted by Justin Stayton
I agree. It's just beginning IMO.

Everyone is getting their own domain name nowadays and the hosts (which seem to popping up everyday now) are sure to make a good buck off it.

I dont disagree (if I understand right) with you which is why these big web hosting offer a combination of shared servers AND also dedicated servers. There's as much a market for shared servers / virtual as there is for dedicated servers.

Ravi

Quote: Originally posted by Ravi Pachai
I dont disagree (if I understand right) with you which is why these big web hosting offer a combination of shared servers AND also dedicated servers. There's as much a market for shared servers / virtual as there is for dedicated servers.

Ravi

IMO, it depends on how you look at it. If you look at it one way, then yes it is over. By this I mean that you take the look that many smaller hosting companies, ones with just 10 or less clients, are going under, then yes, it is over. But you could also look at it that Many companies are starting up, more than what are shutting down, and there are more and more people wanting hosting for their personal domain on themselves. It is getting bigger and bigger. I believe that the market is still growing, and that we may eventually see a point where there are so many hosts, no new hosts are being created. It all depends.

Allyn

As funny as it may sound, there are alot of people/businesses who have not experienced the "internet". With that in mind, I think the total number of users online will continue to see exponential growth. Relate that to hosting and I think hosting will do the same.

Ravi

Keeping with the advocate thing, if the boom has just begun, then why have 12 major hosts dropped prices and/or increased services in the last 60 days? Many quality hosts are dropping monthly fees into the low teens with full bells and whistles. If anything, this is the busiest time of the year when hosts should be needing more for services, not less.

It kinda concerns me because I have been getting in line to do some hosting myself, and I'm wondering if it really is such a good idea right now.

Quote: Originally posted by Brett Tabke
Keeping with the advocate thing, if the boom has just begun, then why have 12 major hosts dropped prices and/or increased services in the last 60 days? Many quality hosts are dropping monthly fees into the low teens with full bells and whistles. If anything, this is the busiest time of the year when hosts should be needing more for services, not less.

It kinda concerns me because I have been getting in line to do some hosting myself, and I'm wondering if it really is such a good idea right now.

They are trying to stay compeditive. If they were to leave their prices where they are, but another company which offers the same thing lowers their prices, who do you think will get more busness. From that standpoint, yes, you are taking less profit on each account, but you will be attracting more people, so as it makes up for it.

Allyn

Hello guys,

In my opinion, the hosting boom has reach its peak, where you now find the hosting companies fighting for more customers, something like dog eat dog situation when the going gets tough.

Hehe, I am getting a better deal now, I move my customers' website' (approx 20-small sites ) from one hosting co. to another whoever offers the best deal.

The latest one is http://www.----------.com
1)50mb 4gig bandwidth
2)Free 10 subdomains for each account
3)Become a reseller and get 40% discount(You qualify as a reseller when you have one account)
4)Most features such as mysql,cgi-bin,php, and many more.

All this for $5.95 per month and don't forget the 2nd account and subsequent account all 40% discount.

Why I said it has reach its peak?

1)Now you can get better features, bandwidth,space for less money if you take the time to source the web and check them out , you will find thousands of them.

2)When I wanted to terminate my account, some of them even offered as high as 3 month free and some even lowered the monthly fees to get me to stay.

3)If you care to source such as hostsearch, hostindex, etc the hosting population have increase 3-fold from what it was 1 year ago.

These are my views, anybody care to elaborate further?I need your views. Oh! maybe I am wrong.

I may get shot down, Hehe it's just my opinion, anybody is entitled to an opinion right?

Please prove me wrong....I can take it, no problem

NSS,

Just out of my own curiousity in dealing with people every single day that come from hosts that charge $5.95/mo. for everything, but they have absolutely no support, what is the support like at your current company that is charging so little? Are the servers stable? What types of hardware do they use?

This is just for my own curiousity, nothing else.

Hi Chad,

The support so far has been very good where I sent about 10 emails to their support at odd hours and most was answered within 1-2 hours. As I could not register through their website due to processing problems, I called up their Sales Dept. to order an account and it was set up within an hour.

$2.95 Per Month is their basic account(Linux 10). Less 40% as a reseller = $1.77 charged to your main account)this is a Linux10 package and the one I mentioned above is their Linux50 package. Below are some specs for all accounts that I copied from their website.
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$2.95 per month(Reseller less 40%)
10 MB Of WebSpace
1 GB Of Bandwidth

Applicable to all accounts(Normal and reseller)
Unlimited FTP Transfer
Account Addons Are Available
24X7 FTP Access
Web Based Control Panel (Plesk)
Access To Raw Log Files
Unlimited POP3 Email Accounts
Unlimited Email Forwarders
Microsoft® FrontPage® Extensions
Catch All Email Account
Unlimited Mailing Lists
Cgi Access (Cgi-bin)
Perl 5.3
PHP 3
SSL Secured Pages
Daily Databack Up
Dual Pentium III
Red Hat Linux
24x7 Network Monitoring
mySQL
Bandwidth Monitoring
Unlimited Web Users http://yourname.com/~user
Password Protected Directories
Everyone.net Support
You can modify your DNS file
Price Freeze Guarantee
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Their packages are Linux 10, 50, 100,
350(800mb 24 gig at $24.95 reseller less 40%)

This is my first time experiencing with Linux servers and I hope it works fine compared to Unix and RaQ3 servers which I had no problems.

Anyway I am going to move my account should they slack in their services. I always look for host with no set up fees. Why should we pay set up fees when most hosts don't charge for it these days.

Hope this helps.

Regards

[Edited by NSS on Nov. 09, 2000 at 09:04 PM]

NSS - 1 to 2 hours?

No offense intended but that seems slow to me. With our service provider we usually get a response within 15-20 minutes. Guess we'e spoiled.

Hi Jaiem,

Wow! I never imagine the respond that fast.I am used to normally the same day reply. I still remember as you said, "You get what you pay for"
Haha, I paying dirt cheap for hosting so I can't complain too much or my host may ask me to pay more.

See you around, TWF needs you

Regards.

[Edited by NSS on Nov. 10, 2000 at 09:49 AM]