Some Trends In The Dedicated Server Hosting Market

Web Hosting is the predecessor of ASP, browsers and cloud based data centers(offering IaaS and SaaS). Due to the huge bulk of data generated through 600 million websites across the globe, dedicated server hosting companies have been delivering hosting websites and web applications as top infrastructure workloads. In the last year, more than 300,000 web servers were set up around the globe.In order to manage such huge data volumes, three trends have emerged. These trends have convergedto reduce the risk factors generated by traditional hosting infrastructure and services.

1. AWS, Linode and Digital Ocean have taken over web host sharing: At present, all traditional infrastructure providers are looking at new web servers across AWS, Linode and Digital Ocean for growth. This is a new trend in the market. At present, these three companies have captured 31% of new web servers. Moreover, installed server sharing across 250 infrastructure providers has now shrunk by 12%.

2. Web Pro customers are more in number as compared to Web Host customers: Google Trends indicates broad market shifts which specifies that phrases such as "Web Hosting", "Dedicated Server", "Ecommerce Hosting" and "PHP Hosting", also known as hosting terms have declined over the last decade. Instead, "WordPress Hosting", "Web App Hosting", "Shopify" and "Linode" are more searched terms.

3. SMBs have a strong web presence and are targeting better managed services from Web Professionals. SMBs have been looking for web designers, web developers and digital agencies to cater to their web presence needs. As per structure research estimations, Web Professionals stimulate over a lakh web servers every year. Even then web infrastructure providers do not target such a critical part of this value chain. Moreover, hosting service provider shave not undergone a substantial change over the last ten years.

In order to stay away from such distracting trends, try to enhance your market share.How can one do it?

Here are the 3 key strategies:

1. Create offers targeted at specific audience segments to help them understand what to buy.
2. Create solution stacks that align with all requisite service consumption by the target audience.
3. Deliver a well-managed service which supports all the needs of each audience segment.

Thus every solution based around distinct audience segments gives audiences access privileges to web management tool sets so that it makes a perfect sense. Many a times Linux dedicated server hosting providers focus on the following:

1 Web administrators such as website hobby sits and IT professionals
2 Build and deployment of all web apps and games online by web application developers
3 Web designers, web developers and digital agencies