The internet now reaches almost 15% of the world population. It was at 10% of the world population 2 years ago. This is a growth of over 350 million users, which is larger then the US population. Even with this huge growth the internet still reaches less then 10% of the Asian, Middle Eastern, and African populations. This growth is expected to continue over the next 10 years and will fuel the growth of all internet based industries.

Web Hosts will continue to see high growth demand for their services. Especially, affordable web hosting companies and budget web hosting companies. As web hosting moves further to a commodity service the affordable web hosts will prosper.

Ecommerce web hosting will also benefit tremendously from this growth. With over 15% of the world population, or 957 million people, who wouldn’t want to tap this marketplace. And it is growing by the size of the US every 2 years!

Ecommerce web hosts and affordable web hosting will boom, but this only drives the need for dedicated servers and reseller hosting plans. Cheap dedicated servers will be the next commodity item as the affordable hosting companies drive the market.

Dedicated Servers are becoming very easy to manage and support remotely with today’s tools. This means that as the internet grows into Africa and Asia it doesn’t necessarily mean building datacenter’s in those countries. There are plenty of world class datacenters that can handle the growth of cheap dedicated servers without having to invest in these resources for third world countries. This makes the availability much quicker and cheaper.

We recommend investing in web hosting companies and the hosting industry it is positioned for large growth. There are still thousands of web hosting companies to invest in and the climate for consolidation is growing.