Netcraft reveals hosted domains with C&W, Digex decline

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November 29, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Netcraft survey found that complex Web hosting businesses are continuing to lose business, while some SME hosting firms are seeing dramatic growth.
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Netcraft (netcraft.com), a UK-based systems and management consultancy, found that the number of Web sites hosted at domain networks such as Cable & Wireless, Global Crossing and above.net declined between 20 and 30 per cent over the past year.
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The worst decreases were sustained by digex.com and psi.net, which lost more than 75 per cent of their hosted sites.
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Concurrently, smaller companies such as Dialtone/Interland Managed Hosting and Ratiokontakt increased their
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hosted sites by more than 30 per cent.
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The number of sites hosted by Rackshack grew by more than 161 per cent, according to Netcraft, and now hosts more than 13,000 sites.

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