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  1. More Deals, Funding Ahead for the Hosting Industry

    The hosting industry's sustained growth has grabbed the attention of Wall Street, which has steered clear of the sector in recent years. That interest is likely to spur a fresh round of financings and deals, according to investment bankers.

    "Investment dollars are definitely looking to go to work in the hosting space," said Peter Hopper, president of DH Capital LLC, a New York-based investment firm specializing in the hosting sector. "This is very different from a couple of years ago. The capital is starting to flow back in. There's no question about that."

    Hopper spoke at Monday at HostingCon.2005, a two-day event which drew nearly 600 hosting professionals to the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Chicago. Hopper noted that investor sentiment on hosting had been shaped by the bankruptcies of the dot-com boom years. "That view is beginning to change," said Hopper. "There are a lot of private companies that are getting huge and knocking the cover off the ball." That improved outlook is likely to mean more mergers and acquisitions, and an improved environment for hosting companies seeking to raise funding through private investment or even public stock offerings.

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    Posted by Rich Miller on 8th June, 2005 in Hosting Share

  2. Meet With Netcraft at HostingCon, Chicago, June 6-7

    Mandy Davis and Rich Miller from Netcraft will be attending HostingCon, in Chicago next Monday and Tuesday June 6-7th. We're looking forward to meeting with customers and the hosting industry generally. If you would like to meet up, please mail us and let us know the best way to get in touch with you at the show, and times you have available to meet.

    HostingCon features 28 sessions on industry issues, as well as keynote addresses by Robert Marsh (CEO, EV1Servers), Sandip Gupta (CEO, Ensim Corporation), Serguei Beloussov (CEO, SWsoft) and Pascal Martin (GM for Hosting Solutions, Microsoft).

    Posted by Rich Miller on 2nd June, 2005 in Hosting Share

  3. Hostway and Energis Share Most Reliable Hosting Company Site during May

    Ranking by Failed Requests and Connection time,
    May 1st - 31st 2005

    Hoster Performance May 2005

    Hostway and Energis share the top slot as as the most reliable hosting companies site this month, followed by Go Daddy, Datapipe, INetU and France Telecom. Hostway, which is based in Chicago and has operations in six countries, was also the most reliable hoster in April 2005. Energis provides connectivity to Netcraft, but has no particular advantage over any other hosting company site in the performance analysis, as none of the performance data collection machines are on the Energis network.

    Notably half of this month's top 10 are running Windows. Recent months have seen a real mixture of operating systems in use on the most reliable sites, in contrast to the early months when FreeBSD dominated the upper end of the table.

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    Posted by Mandy Davis on 2nd June, 2005 in Hosting, Performance Share

  4. June 2005 Web Server Survey

    In the June 2005 survey we received responses from 64,808,485 sites, an increase of 1.27 million from last month's survey. In the first six months of the year, the Internet has added 7.83 million sites, a pace which approaches the torrid growth rate of 2000, when the Web added 16.1 million sites. By comparison, the survey added 10.4 million sites in 2003 and 10.9 million in 2004.

    The bulk of this year's growth has occurred in the United States, with a gain of 5.14 million hostnames. Other countries with strong growth in the survey thus far in 2005 include Germany (+575K), The United Kingdom (+436K), South Korea (+237.9K) and Sweden (+143K).

    Total Sites Across All Domains August 1995 - June 2005

    Total Sites Across All Domains, August 1995 - June 2005

    Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains August 1995 - June 2005

    Graph of market share for top servers across all domains, August 1995 - June 2005

    Top Developers
    DeveloperMay 2005PercentJune 2005PercentChange
    Apache4407226269.374517289569.700.33
    Microsoft1304934620.541313136120.26-0.28
    Sun18562222.9218494712.85-0.07
    Zeus5626140.895808440.900.01

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    Posted by Netcraft on 1st June, 2005 in Web Server Survey Share

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