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This was emailed to me by one of my blog readers. They didn’t say where it came from, but good advice nonetheless.

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Inside Web Hosting Reviews - Episode 152

Mon, 12 May 2008 10:00:32 +0000
On today’s special edition of the Web Hosting Show we have in the studio Emory Rowland of Clickfire.com. Emory has been an insider in both the web hosting and web development worlds for a long time - so there are many topics I would like to pick his brain about. Today though we ...]

Fun Fact: Google's Revenue is $17,066 Per Server

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:52:00 -0400

I read about this on Bert Amijo's blog. 3Tera CEO Vlad Miloushev did the math:

1. Google's infrastructure consists of 500,000 to 1 million servers.

2. Google's Q4, 2006 revenue was $3.2 billion. On an annualized basis, that's $12.8 billion.

If you divide #2 by #1, you'd get $12,800 to $25,600 of revenue per server. If you take the average and divide the amount by 12, you'd end up with $1,422/month in sales for each server. Google spends about 10% of its revenue on operations, which equals $142 per server.

As a point of reference, let's consider HostGator's announcement that it will expand its presence at The Planet. HostGator currently leases 1,700 servers, which are home to 500,000 websites. That's 294 sites per server. If HostGator collected as little as $4.84 from each site owner, it'd generate more revenue per server than Google!

HostGator's cheapest service plan costs $6.95/month, but it allows customers paying $9.95 or more to host multiple sites. Which most - including HostGator's 10,000 resellers - do. So Brent doesn't have Larry and Sergey beat. Yet. But while I was doing the calculations above, I remembered a conversation with Lenkov from SiteKreator. Thanks to some kind of caching magic (which ISP-Planet discusses in this article), Lenkov's software can support up to 30,000 simple websites on a two CPU machine.

Let's say Brent springs for a quad core Clovertown from The Planet, hosts only 15,000 websites, and charges each site owner $1/month. This would put him ahead of Google in terms of both revenue/hosting expense ratio, and sales per server.

ISP-Planet says SiteKreator can be licensed for an "unpublished fee". I'll have to ask Lenkov about that...

Choosing a Domain Name

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:09:12 +0000
What Is a Domain Name?
A domain name is the name of a part of a domain which corresponds to certain files on the internet. For example, if I have a web site at www.mywebsite.com, the www.mywebsite.com would be the domain name, corresponding to my web site. No one else would be able to use this ...]

Indian Host NetMagic Going Global

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST
March 3, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- As the hosting market grows in India, the demand for data centers and hosting services has increased exponentially.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

It was very upsetting for us to find out that we were considered existing

customers of theirs, while this is incorrect. We might have used their

servers, but without our knowledge and indirectly, as it was purchased

from another hosting company and not from them.

Microsoft Launch a Big Production

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST
February 29, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Microsoft showcased the next generation of its infrastructure and application platform products on Wednesday to thousands of customers and partners worldwide in an event the software giant calls its largest enterprise launch in the company's history.