The Market Tendences in Hostingindustry in 20042005



June 19, 2005 -- Main features of 2004: growth of hosting-services branch, expansion of "worms"-viruses and attacks on servers. During the course of this year we could have observed the appearance of new services on the market, continuous working out of new technologies and instruments, perfection of technosphere, fusion of hosting companies.

IDC research, www.idc.com (November, 2004) shows that American businessmen spent 77.1 millions dollars on IT in 2004. It corresponds to growth approximately in 5% in comparison with 2003. IDC forecasts that increasing of IT-expense in the USA in 2005 will remain 7%.

According to Netcraft report, , www.netcraft.com (December, 2004), about 10,9 millions new domain names appeared during the last year. The increase of resources, that had been used in commerce, was about 808'722 sites. This increase became possible thanks to reduction of prices on domain names.

Most active domain buyers were enterprises of small-scale business. It is forecasted (HostReview.com) that small and middle-sized companies would be the main clients of hosting-companies in future.

The Netcraft report, www.netcraft.com tells us that a new standard for virtual hosting becomes 1Gb .As consequence, the prices on Gb hosting-plan are falling. Providers began to compete not on the basis of prices,but on the basis of given services,traffic, volume of disks' area.

In the security sphere the amount of attacks on the on-line servers increased especially in banking sphere and on-line trading. The loss was about 20,1 millions dollars. The problems of protection and security become the world problems, because it is supposed(HostReview.com) that in close future about 48% of all enterprises would use Internet in their work.

The greatest loss in 2004 was done by viruses (Bagle, Doomjuice, Korgo, MyDoom, Sasser, Witty) and their modifications. The expansion of this programmes was more faster than in previous years. The loss : gathering of authentication details ,e-mail addresses, on-line banking information,removing the documents from hard disk and sending the information to swindlers.

MessageLabs (www.messagelabs.com) state that 67.6% of all messages in Internet are spam. That is why anty-spam and anty-virus protections remain most important problems for hosters, that push the hosters to active counteraction. The anty-spam alliances are created. In IDC (www.idc.com) research it is said that the incomes from selling the AntiSpyWare software would grow from 12 millions dollars in 2003 to 305 millions in 2008.

The HostReview.com forecasts that after increasing of hosting services, the further development of technologies would follow. The main branches in 2005 will be: security,working out of"user friendly" instruments ,programme providing, appearance of new web-services and their further expansion.

source www.check-isp.com





The Market Tendences in Hostingindustry in 20042005