Comments on: The Big 6-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh! http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2007/10/30/the-big-6-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh/ Tips & Tricks for Dreamhosters Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:58:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Will http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2007/10/30/the-big-6-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh/#comment-8208 Will Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:55:19 +0000 http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2007/10/30/the-big-6-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh/#comment-8208 Keep in mind that the way webhosting.info and similar sites compute their stats is biased towards a particular type of host. They mostly seem to base their measurements on domains having a particular set of nameservers. There are a lot of big hosts which do a lot of reselling, provide private nameservers to their customers, or do other stuff which webhosting.info (and, to a lesser extent, Netcraft) don't really account for AFAIK. There are some obvious big companies missing from this list (Verio comes to mind), and it's mostly because of that. Netcraft's measurements are a little smarter, but they are also more protective of their data. Also keep in mind that number of domains doesn't necessarily equate with revenue - there are many outfits which are larger in terms of revenue, but smaller in terms of # of hosted domains. Keep in mind that the way webhosting.info and similar sites compute their stats is biased towards a particular type of host. They mostly seem to base their measurements on domains having a particular set of nameservers.

There are a lot of big hosts which do a lot of reselling, provide private nameservers to their customers, or do other stuff which webhosting.info (and, to a lesser extent, Netcraft) don’t really account for AFAIK. There are some obvious big companies missing from this list (Verio comes to mind), and it’s mostly because of that. Netcraft’s measurements are a little smarter, but they are also more protective of their data.

Also keep in mind that number of domains doesn’t necessarily equate with revenue - there are many outfits which are larger in terms of revenue, but smaller in terms of # of hosted domains.

]]> By: JD http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2007/10/30/the-big-6-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh/#comment-8207 JD Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:54:57 +0000 http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2007/10/30/the-big-6-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh/#comment-8207 Only if you assume that it's one domain per person. I'm guessing the average is more like five or ten. Only if you assume that it’s one domain per person. I’m guessing the average is more like five or ten.

]]> By: Tim Linden http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2007/10/30/the-big-6-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh/#comment-8206 Tim Linden Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:47:27 +0000 http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2007/10/30/the-big-6-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh/#comment-8206 Pretty cool. So if you look at the blog comments when things go down, and say 50 people complain. That's only 0.008% LOL Pretty cool. So if you look at the blog comments when things go down, and say 50 people complain. That’s only 0.008% LOL

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