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Web hosting companies are always looking for new hosting plans and services to help differentiate them selves from the thousands of other web hosts. Hosting companies have many hosting plans depending on how much of a server you want. You can lease a whole dedicated server, a Virtual private server(VPS), which is a part of a dedicated server that have all of the features of a dedicated server, a Reseller plan, which is a chuck of the server that can be used for multiple websites, or a shared hosting plan, which just a slice of a dedicated server for 1 website. Going further up the ladder, you can lease a rack in a datacenter and fill it with your own servers, or a whole caged space in the datacenter to put in as many racks as you want.

Web hosting is a competitive business with, literally, 10’s of thousands of web hosting companies worldwide. The majority of all the web hosts focus their efforts on North America and Western Europe. There is some focus on Asia with the internet boom. But Africa, South America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East are prime burgeoning areas that receive little focus from the major web hosting companies. Over the next 10 years we see tremendous growth in these markets, and some savy web hosting companies can ensure great long term growth potential by established their brands in these markets.

The United States and other industrialized countries are very attractive to customers in these countries because of the great infrastructures, datacenters, and established base of skilled computer workers. Trying to start a world class datacenter in Ghana has huge hurdles. Just transferring money in and out of the country is a laborious process that includes government approval. Another factor is the major credit card companies. They do not issue cards to customers in places like Ghana or Tanzania. For a web host to manage customers from these countries they cannot have auto-billing. Payment is wire or cash transfer.

But other countries like India, Brazil, and Russia offer huge markets today. With growing middle classes these countries have established banking system to facilitate credit card transactions. They also have middle classes with internet access and small businesses. These are 2 prime recruiting grounds for new web hosting customers. Establishing you brand in Brazil, for instance, can yield a large customer base over the next decade as this country continues to grow its internet access, middle class and overall population.

India is the obvious country but with their huge IT trained workforce and outsourcing industry for web hosting support, they will not yield customers as easily. They already have some of the best datacenters and web hosting support staffs in the world.

Web hosting is a competitive business with, literally, 10’s of thousands of web hosting companies worldwide. The majority of all the web hosts focus their efforts on North America and Western Europe. There is some focus on Asia with the internet boom. But Africa, South America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East are prime burgeoninghe United States and other industrialized countries are very attractive to customers in these countries because of the great infrastructures, datacenters, and established base of skilled computer workers. Trying to start a world class datacenter in Ghana has huge hurdles. Just transferring money in and out of the country is a laborious process that includes government approval. Another factor is the major credit card companies. They do not issue cards to customers in places like Ghana or Tanzania. For a web host to manage customers from these countries they cannot have auto-billing. Payment is wire or cash transfer.

But other countries like India, Brazil, and Russia offer huge markets today. With growing middle classes these countries have established banking system to facilitate credit card transactions. They also have middle classes with internet access and small businesses. These are 2 prime recruiting grounds for new web hosting customers. Establishing you brand in Brazil, for instance, can yield a large customer base over the next decade as this country continues to grow its internet access, middle class and overall population.

India is the obvious country but with their huge IT trained workforce and outsourcing industry for web hosting support, they will not yield customers as easily. They already have some of the best datacenters and web hosting support staffs in the world.

Of the almost nine million North Amervican domains registered only 6% are hosted on dedicated servers. This means that 9.4 percent of domains are hosted on shared hosting plans. Given this statistic I wonder why anyone competes in the dedicated server business. The mark up per server is not that high once you factor in

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Today on thehosting-review we are starting a series about Back To School Hosting needs. As the school year starts there become may hosting opportunities for companies. There are Resume websites created by rising seniors and juniors interested in getting a jump on the job hunt market. There are the numerous blog websites setup by

We often get asked by web hosting companies that use a Reseller hosting plan…when is it time to move to a dedicated server? This is a tough question to answer for someone, but we can give some advice.
First, are there any issues with your current reseller plan? If not then don’t fix what isn’t

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The top bid at Google for Web Hosting is $37.45. Overture