First Web Hosting Study
October 2007

Methodology

An e-mail was delivered to 15,000 randomly selected subscribers to SD Times inviting them to participate in a study on web hosting. Excluding bounces, the net number of surveys delivered was 14,896.

The purpose was to determine where SD Times reader companies host the sites that their developers create internally and externally, and who makes the decision where sites are hosted.

The study was e-mailed on October 8, 2007, and cut off and tabulated by BZ Research on October 12, 2007. A total of 207 subscribers, or 1.4% of the respondents, completed the survey, although not all of them answered every question. No incentive was used.

BZ Research designed, conducted and tabulated the study. BZ Research is a division of BZ Media, publisher of SD Times.

Table of Contents

Question 1. Where are your company’s public and private Web sites hosted (or the sites for companies to whom you consult)?

Question 2. Any comments about how you select hosting services?

Question 3. How many separate Web sites are there at your company (or the companies to whom you consult)?

Question 4. In your company, who is involved in deciding whether to host Web sites internally or externally?

Question 5. In your company, who is involved in selecting which hosting providers to use?

Question 6. Are you personally involved in evaluating, recommending, selecting or hiring external Web hosting providers?

Question 7. Have you ever heard of the following hosting companies?

Question 8. Are there other Web hosting companies that you know about, but which we haven't listed above?

Study #1995 costs US$695 without verbatims, or $995 with verbatims.