The market of hosting services in Russia is in the process of continuous development, it is changing and improving. Therefore, there
is always
a choice among a variety of companies offering various hosting services, including
VPS hosting . A number of Russian VPS-providers can already boast of a “European” level of service and quality of work. Why do customers change the provider? “Flow” among users is a process characteristic of the whole world. According to world
statistics , the average hosting company annually loses from 15% to 35% of clients.
Some companies and private users have been searching for “perfect hosting” for years, and more than a dozen hosting providers have time to “test” during this time. On the Russian Internet, you can find many hosting ratings - about 200 providers. They are often guided by the choice. Ratings are compiled based on the ratings of the users themselves, on various parameters or on the
results of testing . Others believe that “size matters” and take as a basis official statistics showing which hosts are the largest in the world or in Russia.
Hosting companies in the world - rated by the number of customers (data ru.hostadvice.com ).')
Choosing a good hosting provider is not an easy task, and the rating of hosting companies can be indirectly judged on the quality of their work. Many rating sites specialize in providing a site for hosting reviews. This helps to get a more or less fair assessment of hosters, to find the optimal cost of services and functionality. Some offer an easy-to-use
tariff comparison tool , give information about promotions or discounts to hosting providers.
There are fairly objective criteria for assessing the "size" of the host. For example, you can see the statistics of the distribution of domains by hosting providers on the website "
Domains of Russia ", which represents comprehensive statistics covering all aspects of the development of the Russian domain space.
The portal statdom.ru presents data received daily from the Technical Center of the Internet.To date, the
statonline.ru website, a project of reg.ru, a hosting provider and a domain name registrar, also provides current statistics on the distribution of domains in the .ru zone across hosting providers.
The monitoring service StatOnline.ru provides information on the number of hosting sites, distribution statistics by providers, as well as statistics on domains hosted by several providers at once (multihosting).In addition to the rating of hosting providers, the following are available on StatOnline.ru:
- CMS statistics;
- summary statistics of the distribution of domains in zones .RU / .SU /. by type of use (hosting, parking, web forwarding and others);
- IP address statistics;
- data on the number of domains with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses;
- Top20 mail providers in the .RU zone and other interesting statistics;
- rating of Top20 hosting providers of domain zones .RU / .SU / ..
The StatOnline.ru portal has CMS statistics that are most popular for sites in .RU / .SU / . zones.Top3 hosting by Hosters.ru website version . Rating of hosting providers is based on the results of speed, level of reliability and user reviews.Hostings.info site uses a variety of criteria for evaluating and choosing hosting: by countries, by CMS, by type of hosting (cloud, virtual hosting, virtual server, dedicated server, etc.), by purpose of hosting (for “adult” content, business website). , blog, corporate website, online store, portal or forum), by the availability of a free trial period, payment methods, cost of services, installed software (Linux or Windows). Other parameters are also taken into account: you can choose fault-tolerant, unlimited, secure hosting, hosting with DDoS protection, with site builder, preferred technologies (such as ASP.net, MySQL, PHP) or control panels (cPanel, ISP Manager, DirectAdmin, Parallels Plesk and others), as well as the country where the data center of the hosting provider is located.
The best hosting companies on the site Hostings.info .The VPS-servers.ru ranking, compiled from user reviews, takes into account the most important parameters: speed, price, reliability and support.Today, there are dozens of sites
rating hosting . Basically, these ratings are based on reviews, price, configuration, etc. On the
TestVPS website,
hoster services, in particular, VPS hosting services, have been tested and evaluated by mathematical parameters. Each VPS provider has been tested using eight different tests that evaluate processor performance, disk system, databases, workload, and speed.
The task of the TestVPS site is to reflect in mathematics the performance of VPS hosters servers.When viewing hosting ratings, many people have questions - why so and not otherwise? Why are the first lists Top10 or Top50 on different sites so different? How is a rating made?
Rating should not be taken as a dogma. This is just a set of factors and opinions (user ratings of the site) that lead each site (service, product) to a specific place in the list. These ratings should be treated as a regular selection list.
The most functional and convenient services can be more expensive compared to other, located at lower positions. But do we always need these additional features and services? Choose the best option for yourself from the rating, it’s never too late to switch to another.
101poisk is a recommendation site directory of web services and programs in the form of ratings and reviews. Services are ranked by the total number of votes of users.For example, the international rating of hosting services Pickuphost provides information for a quick analysis of the quality and level of service of the best hosting providers in Russia and foreign providers, including objective user reviews; access to technical information; information about the tariff plans of providers; information on available servers and additional services. If necessary, Pickuphost experts help to choose a product that meets specific needs, opportunities and wishes.
For an optimal choice of hosting Pickuphost offers the possibility of detailed adjustment of search filters for the parameters of the service - from rates to technical specifications.Here are some interesting statistics. Today, Top10 hosting companies control 24% of the global web hosting market.
According to world statistics , WordPress remains the most popular content management system in the world - its share is 27.5%. Over 76.5 million blogs run on WordPress. The second place among the CMS takes Joomla.
The volume of the cloud computing and hosting market worldwide from 2010 to 2020 (in billions of dollars).It is estimated that the slow work of the site is extremely negative for its user audience. With each extra second, the conversion rate drops by as much as 7%. If the site loading takes more than 3 seconds, then two out of five users will refuse the process, and three out of five users will no longer return to this site. Improving site load times can significantly increase conversion rates. Studies using real-world data from 33 major online sites showed that reducing download times from 8 to 2 seconds resulted in a 74% increase in conversion rate.
The growth of the global market of dedicated hosting .
In 2017, over a billion active sites were registered in the world. The average connection speed of Internet users increased from 2 Mbit / s in 2011 to almost 6.5 Mbit / s in 2017. Mobile devices account for more than half of all Internet traffic - 51.6%. By 2020, this figure will increase to 68%. At the end of 2018, more than half of the world's population will be online - 3.82 billion users.
We also plan to get interesting data by conducting our own survey. Recently, RUVDS participated in the organization of exit poll monitoring for its client, VTsIOM, and now decided to conduct its own small case study on virtual servers.