Registered domains
Across all TLDs … 326 million
Growth rate in fourth quarter of 2015 … 3.8% (or 12 million)
Redirecting during that time frame (.com and .net) …
- To LinkedIn … up 35%
- To Weibo (Chinese social media site) … up 49%
- To Amazon, Facebook, Twitter and Etsy … up between 23% and 30%
Percentage of the world with a connection to the Internet … 40%
The increase between 1999 and 2013 … tenfold
In 1995, the percentage of the world that was connected … less than 1%
The number of Internet users …
- 2016 … 3,424,971,237
- 2014 … 2,956,385,569
- 2010 … 2,023,202,974
- 2005 … 1,030,101,289
Number of web hosting providers … unknown
True reviews on Top Ten web hosting review sites … Zero
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The best web hosting for you … depends on a lot of factors
Specific resource requirements
- CPU
- Dual Core
- Quad Core
- I/O
- RAM
- DDR3
- DDR4
- Bandwidth
- Metered
- Unmetered
- 95th percentile
- Commit?
- Limited or unlimited
- Location
- Target audience
- Global
- DDoS Protection?
- CloudFlare
- Provided by host
- Number of IP addresses
- IPv4
- IPv6
- Managed or unmanaged
- Basic management
- Fully managed
- Managed WordPress
- Hard drive
- SSD
- SATA
- Size
- Port Speed
- 10Mbps
- 100Mbps
- 1Gbps
- 10Gbps
- Operating system
- Linux
- Windows
- Monitored?
- Every minute
- Every 5 minutes
- Other interval
- Control Panel
- cPanel
- DirectAdmin
- Plesk
- Other
- Cost
- Budget
- Old hardware
- Poor support
- Increased downtime
- Competitive
- Newer hardware
- Better support
- Good uptime
- Backups
- Incremental
- Daily
- Every 48 hours
- Mirrored
- Offsite
- Other
- RAID Array … software or hardware
- RAID 0 (not recommended)
- RAID 1 (very common)
- RAID 10 (need 4 drives)
- Note: RAID is NOT a backup solution
- Budget
Types of web hosting services
- Shared
- Many users sharing same IP address
- Many users sharing CPU and RAM resources
- VPS
- Cores?
- RAM?
- Hard Drive Space?
- Bandwidth?
- KVM?
- OpenVZ?
- Oversold?
- Dedicated CPU cores
- Dedicated RAM
- Dedicated Servers
- CPU?
- RAM?
- IP addresses?
- Operating System
- Windows
- Linux
- Other
- Hard drive
- SSD
- SATA
- Size
- Collocation
- Cost per U
- Cost per rack (42U)
- Carrier Neutral?
- Crash cart?
- Remote Hands?
- Cloud
- Can scale rapidly
- Suited for seasonal retail sales
WordPress installations
Global market share … 50% to 60%
WordPress posts published per second … 17
Google searches for WordPress (per month) … 37,000,000
Percentage of new domains running on WordPress (USA) … 22%
Preference as a CMS (USA)
- WordPress … 50%
- Drupal … 17%
- Joomla … 6%
Number of WordPress blogs … over 76 million
Number of WordPress sites that are launched every day … 50,000
Percentage of WordPress blogs that are written in English … 71%
Most requested freelancing skill in the world … WordPress
Percentage of WordPress sites running on the latest version … 22%
Cost of an average WordPress theme … $40
Number of WordPress.org plugin downloads … over 1 Billion
Number of official WordPress plugins … over 40,000
Data Centers
Worldwide datacenter space
- 2013 … 1.58 billion square feet
- 2018 … projected to be 1.94 billion square feet
Number of datacenters in the US … 3,000,000
The percentage of cloud data centers that are hosted by the US and China … 54%
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