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Finding out which web hosting companies really are the largest ones can be difficult. This article takes a number of different factors into consideration to not just find out which ones are the largest today, but also which of them are growing the fastest. Today’s leader may not be tomorrow’s. When we talk about the [...]

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How five top-name web hosting providers have grown since 2005

We decided to analyze how five of the most talked-about web hosting companies have grown over the last few years. The results are really interesting. Since we didn’t have inside information about these companies, we looked at the number of domain names on their DNS servers, and how these numbers have changed over time (from [...]

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Web hosting now vs 10 years ago

It’s no secret that there has been an on-going war over customers in the web hosting industry for many years. Together with the technical evolution of computer hardware, this fierce competition has drastically increased what you get for your money when you buy a web hosting account. The people behind Pingdom originally came from the [...]

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Top 20 DNS server map shows US internet dominance

The US has long held a dominating position in the web hosting industry. One way to examine this is to look at which DNS servers hold the most domain names. It turns out that 16 of the 20 largest DNS servers in the world are located in the US. Aside from the US, only Germany [...]

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