The managed Web hosting sector experienced 30 percent growth in 2007 according to the new report.

January 11, 2008 (TopHosts News Brief) - Tier 1 Research (T1R) has released its Internet infrastructure report.

The report found that the managed hosting sector is still the largest sector within Internet infrastructure. It grew by 30 percent in 2007. It is expected to grow at a similar rate in 2008. Several trends account for the strong growth, including increased adoption of managed hosting by SMBs and mid-tier enterprises and hosting for software-as-a-service providers. An array of new utility storage and hosting services is expected fuel growth in 2009 and 2010.

Some of the Web hosting companies covered include GoDaddy, Hostway, The Planet, Rackspace and many more.

“While the managed hosting sector sees tremendous growth, a massive transformation in how shared hosting services are successfully marketed and sold is well under way,” Daniel Golding, a senior analyst at T1R and author of the report, said in a statement issued to the media. “Disk space and bandwidth is no longer a selling point, and customers are now looking for the functionality that enables them to do things like blog, share photos, publish profile pages on a social network or sell things online. As a result, shared hosting has quickly commoditized and become a common denominator of sorts. In other words, shared hosting is no longer just about selling Web space for static websites; rather, it is more about the many different things that can be done in a hosted environment.”

For more information, visit: www.t1r.com