ThePlanet.com Fastest Growing Hosting Provider by Active Sites over last six months

Dallas based hosting company ThePlanet has, in terms of percentage growth in active sites, been the fastest growing large hosting company over the last six months.

A table of the Hosting Providers who grew the fastest over the 6 months to October 2003 is provided below. Companies are included in the filter if they started April 2003 with more than 10,000 active sites (as this removes those which grew simply through starting with a small base), and had growth of more than 50% over the period.

Fastest Growing Hosting Providers by % Increase in Active Sites April 2003 to October 2003 Parent Company Apr-03 Oct-03 % Change Hostnames Oct 03 ThePlanet.com 15,923 48,522 204.73% 71,975 EV1Servers.net 208,531 355,932 70.69% 550,808 iPowerWeb 70,622 117,127 65.85% 139,586 SRS Sakura Internet Inc 18,922 29,661 56.75% 36,085 VenturesOnline Inc 23,270 35,703 53.43% 51,045 Lycos 48,400 73,988 52.87% 134,499

On a glance at the top of the table, one might be forgiven for drawing the conclusion that if you want to be successful in hosting, you should locate in Texas. However, 28 companies almost evenly spread between North America, Europe and the Far East grew by more than a third over the period.

During the last month our Hosting Provider Switching Analysis shows ThePlanet gaining hostnames from all its major competitors.