Web Hosting India

Welcome to Web Hosting In India – an information portal providing basic information about the hosting industry and services in India, statistics, news, views, reviews and comparison of web hosting companies in India.

What is Web Hosting?

If you want to take part in the internet as a business, information resource, directory, or to share data, information and knowledge with the many people and communities on the internet, you have to own a piece of space in cyberspace – the space that you call a website. The website (data) needs to be hosted on special computers, called servers, that remain online and accessible 24 hours a day. Web hosting empowers you and anyone with a computer and internet connection to own a piece of cyberspace. In your space, you can have news, bulletins, documents, data, files (your web site) and your own post office (mail server) to accept mail, all in the context of you or your business.

Web Hosting Industry in India

Indian web hosting market has grown with the IT revolution taking place in India. The availability of broadband, better infrastructure and introduction of computer education in all schools has fueled the growth of web hosting industry in India. Many Indian web hosting companies, which started off as reseller hosting companies have now grown up to become mature hosting companies in themselves.

According to Gartner, IT spending in India will reach $67 billion in 2010, an increase of 14.1 percent from 2009. The IT market in India is expected to grow 11 percent from 2009 until the end of 2013, with IT services growing faster than all other segments at 17.6 percent. As the web hosting market grows in India, the demand for data centers and  web hosting services has increased exponentially. It is estimated that the The total data center capacity in India is expected to reach 5.1 million square feet by 2012 and is projected to grow 31 percent from 2007 to 2012, according to Gartner, Inc.  The web hosting market in India will show the highest growth in Asia-Pacific and grow at a compound annual growth rate of 24% till 2008, according to a study. India already has about 1200 hosting companies.

Asian Data Center market by a compound annual growth rate of 11.5 percent over the period from 2006 to 2010, making India the fastest growing market in the world. The data center industry in India is expected to grow exponentially with nearly 1,700 square feet of planned data center space by 2010. Combined with the more than 50 new telcos sprouting up in India, the build would create a significant emergence of data centers in the country.

Web hosting  and data ware housing services market in India is forecast to grow to $ 95.14 million from $ 40.45 million in 2004 at a CAGR of 24 per cent, which is the highest in Asia-Pacific, excluding Japan, the study by research firm IDC said. The emerging markets of India and China were found to be the fastest growing markets for Web hosting services. The overall Asia-Pacific market for web hosting services spending will increase from $ 521 million in 2004 to $ 924 million by 2008, representing a compound annual growth rate of 15 per cent from 2004 to 2008.

Following the rebound of the economy, there has been a renewed business focus to develop an e-business model. This is seen to drive the next level of growth in Web hosting services, particularly at the management services level where the “always-on” networked business environment is the prerequisite for survival in today’s business environment.

Indian people are increasingly looking for Indian companies to fulfill their hosting needs. The exponentially growing hosting industry in India has now even started attracting foreign players. But the problem is that Indian customers increasingly look for cheap web hosting. The demand for cheap hosting has seen a price war in India’s web hosting market and many web hosting companies are now even offering free web hosting! But there is nothing really ‘free’ so all these offers for free hosting come with a catch – which is usually related to bandwidth usage, limited ftp or something similar. In this war to give cheap hosting on Linux and Windows, the quality does suffer. The primary growth markets in Indian web hosting industry are cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmadabad, Jaipur and Pune.

The primary market areas for the web hosting companies in India are:

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