As I said, it's just my perception. But since you picked up on it.

Can happen with ALL hosts of course, no matter where they are based.

Depends on the host of course!

Hah? Think about that one! More experience doesn't make you better?

Yes indeed they are not perfect, but from my experience having the host a phone call away, or get a reply in less than 15min. makes a difference.

yes it does.

That's not what I said.

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And what if their techniques are bad techniques to begin with?
You're making very little sense in this thread Enzo.

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"That's not what I said."

It sounded like it.


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"And what if their techniques are bad techniques to begin with?"

Eh .. They could be of course, but the same applies to any new host too.

"You're making very little sense in this thread Enzo."

No i'm not. It's simple.

Oh by the way Michele, that's not to say I wouldn't ever consider a host such a Blacknight, I just feel more comfortable sticking with what I know. So don't take offence

Don't worry - I don't offend easily

I was more curious than anything else.

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Well it is my experience that many US hosters are really small reseller accounts. There are a few key players but the reality is that the number of top tier hosters per country is fairly static in most mature markets and the US is a mature market. Thus (based on identified US hosters) you have over 100K US hosters with 1-9 domains hosted, around 60K with 10-100 hosted, around 12K with 100-500 hosted, about 1570 with 500-999 hosted, about 1390 with 1000-4999 hosted, about 170 with 5K-10K hosted, about 217 with 10K-50K hosted, about 34 with 50K-100K hosted, about 45 with 100K-1M hosted and 6 with over 1M hosted domains.

The break point between resellers on shared hosting would probably be in the 500 region. Then it moves into the dedicated server territory. The dedicated datacentre operators would be in the top end of the market probably around 10K+ domains hosted.

The most terrifying statistic is that out of 937839 hosters in com/net/org/biz/info/ie globally, 514005 are one hit wonders (only one domain associated with the DNS). These are typically shared hosting type accounts. Only 34367 hosters globally (excluding ccTLDs) have more than 100 domains hosted. The real hosting business is a lot smaller than people think.

Regards...jmcc

Interesting post, thanks jmcc. Ya learn something new every day.

The hosting business is like that. As long as your hoster works and does the business it is fine. Most of the problems that I've seen over the last few years have been largely growth related - the small hosters run by people in college who have to choose between a career (or finishing college) and the hosting business and choose the former. Their clients are often left twisting in the wind as there was never any migration plan built into the business. Though what has been happening recently is that some of these small hosters are being bought out by larger ones.

Catastrophic business failures (there one day, gone the next) are becoming a bit rarer in the hosting business here. A hoster can take about two years or so to crash entirely if it is a large one. (Esat being a good example of a slow collapse.) However the danger of dealing with small resellers is that a business needs far more safeguards in place to prevent it losing everything (domain etc).

Regards...jmcc