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Some recent web hosting news of note. Lunarpages just updated their web hosting plans with additional storage and banwidth. You can read the whole press release at Lunarpages web hosting.

Apus.net web hosting just announced changes to their management team. Read all the details of their web hosting management team.

The beginning of the year is a good time for web hosts to make changes and get ready for the new year.

We will be posting daily on this web hosting blog about news and changes from web hosting companies.

What is Microsoft Exchange?
In its simplest terms, Microsoft Exchange is POP3 mail on super steroids. Differing from regular email, Exchange has a host of additional features that make it a very powerful productivity tool. For me one of its biggest advantages is the synchronization. All folders, contacts, tasks and calendar items are saved on the server, not the client. Read the rest of this entry »

Affordable web hosting companies have been starting to really market to the VPS web hosting market. Virtual Private Servers are becoming popular alternatives to reseller hosting plans and dedicated servers. Check out some of the best VPS web hosting providers on our website.

Also, our sister web hosting resource website, hostingknowledge.net, has the latest web hosting news and press releases. DemoWolf has a new press release as well as Uplinkearth.

If you work for a web hosting company and are interested in participating in our upcoming featured web hosting article on customer churn. We are putting together numbers on the average customer churn in the industry and the cost to web hosts to replace lost website customers.

With ever increasing storage and bandwidth for cheaper web hosting plans, customer churn is inevitable given that the web hosting industry does not require yearly contracts with their web hosting plans like the cell phone industry. This helps to slow down customer churn.

We have noticed a recent shift in the Reseller web hosting business toward hosted applications and vertical solutions. Vertical solutions we’re defining as a hosted solution for an industry where you target that industry instead of general web hosting. An example is building a configurable website for Realtors with all of hte functionality they need. Then each realtor gets their own version of the website with their logo and name. The real estate industry has the most mature hosted website applications like this, but other are coming on the web hosting scene. Mortage brokers, churches, artists, and musicians are other areas that are seeing a lot of interest.

Instead of marketing to the general web hosting audience you then market specifically for an industry. This has become a very effective trend for growing your web hosting company.

Web hosting providers are increasingly seeing this trend and building applications to help gain new business. This all started with website builder tools and is now evolving to, basically, insutry specific website builder tools.

It is a natural evolution given the specific nature of the internet. Web hosting needs to evolve past general hosting companies and web hosting companies specializing in specific industries.

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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 machine costs, datacenter costs, network costs, and support costs. Read the rest of this entry »