• Evaluates and categorize IT industry firms by their vision and ability to execute.
• Categories or Quadrants: Niche Players, Challengers, Visionaries and Leaders

Gartner estimated that by 2020, $216 billion would be spent on the cloud shift.

Benefits

• Drag and Drop, Easy and Quick: Business, Enterprise, individuals, bloggers, can create their user-friendly intuitive website and content. They need to choose a template and follow instructions to populate and make it live. Even templates are customizable.
• Contemporarily designed templates: Colourful designs, minimalistic, light and clean to give the modern feel, with easy navigation.
• Cost Effective: No need to purchase designer tools, even no need to hire a designer or professional. Cost almost equivalent to cheap shared web hosting services.
• Does not need coding experience
• No maintenance required: Updates are done automatically by Site Builder provider.

Website Builder Providers

• Godaddy: Small business can design fully functional and professional websites with no technical expertise even using the smartphone.
• Ibuilt
• Gomobi
• Qfuse
• Weebly
• Squarespace
• Wix
• Dudaone
• Yola
• Jimdo
• Yahoo
• Homestead
• Ibuilt
• Dudamobile
• Gomobi
• Onbile
• Mofuse
• Activemobi
• Tappinn

Provides information technology management software

Establishment: 2003

Headquarters: Phoenix, Arizona

Services Offered: Windows mail server, customer service software, and Web log analytics and SEO software

Key Selling Points

• Premium WordPress Themes and Website Template provider
• Known for their UX/UI Design for Web and Mobile along with WordPress integration or customization.
• Experts in UI and UX design

Services Offered:

• WordPress business themes
• VOIP Business & WHMCS WordPress Themes
• Multipurpose Business Themes
• HTML5 Templates
• Scripts & Plugins and PHPBB3 styles
• WordPress Customized Themes and Templates
• UI and UX design: A team of professionals design and develop the most exclusive themes and website templates.

Headquarters: New York

Executive

Target Customers: small and large businesses, Bloggers

Support: 24.7.365, also provides an online informative blog.

What for Customers?

• Tailored solutions and best choice for responsive web development.
• Themes ideal for businesses especially startups and enhances business productivity and online presence.
• A customer can customize theme and templates to make it attractive and functional. The customer does UI and UX design, front-end coding and WordPress theme customization. It makes blogs unique and presentable. Hence to attract, engage and retain customers.
• The company gives out-of-the-box User Experience and Web Development Solutions
• Design responsive themes and templates for desktop, Smartphone or tablet.
• Regular Update Support: The company provides regular updates without disturbing website layout. Client can focus on content without to worry about updates
• Natural traffic drivers: Built-in features to make website search-engine friendly

Support: If any error occurs, the support team help to fix quickly.

Latest News

• (March 18, 2017) ThemeLooks Launches Premium WordPress Themes With Whmcs Templates For Hosting businesses on WordPress.

Unique Selling Points

• Trading of products or Services electronically using the Internet.
• It provide direct sales to consumers available online.
• E-Commerce Process includes Business to Consumers (B2C), Consumer to Consumer (C2C), Business to Business (B2B).

E-Commerce Examples: Electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, mobile commerce, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, online transaction processing, and automated data collection systems.

E-commerce Website

• A professionally designed website is an attractive option for many online businesses providing e-commerce functionality to its clients.
• An e-commerce site is capable of accepting, processing, and confirming the sales orders.
• An E-Commerce Hosting provider offers templates to develop online catalogs, software to build customized online shopping carts.
• Make arrangements for safe and secure purchasing of a credit card, and providing an inventory tracking and management tools.

Applications/Softwares

• WooCommerce: The world’s most famous and elegant eCommerce-platform. It powers 28% of the web’s e-Commerce stores of WordPress users. It supports single-product micro-stores to the largest retailers with multi-thousand-item catalogs.

Helping Tools: E-mail, Social Media

Software Providers

• Volusion – All-in-one website builder for retailers and brands. The provider company focussed on engaging founders in SME’s market by providing updated logo, branding, improved UI, faster development cycle.
  The software integrates with Shippo, Paypal, Stripe and soon Zapier, Yopto, Square, Xero, and Amazon
  CEO: Kevin Sproles

E-Commerce Store Brand Name

• Physical or Online, the Business name means a lot. The name provides recognition and business start with that. Every communication in or out with stakeholders contains that ‘Name’ and have a great impact on success.
• Small, Medium or Large Enterprises all like to popularise their Business Name. For that lot of resources spent on Marketing tactics and Public Relations activity.
• And, when all it is ‘Name,’ choose it appropriately.

Target Customers: Bloggers, Small Business Websites, novice webmasters, Kick-starters, moderate traffic websites, small budget website

Benefits

• Inexpensive as compared to VPS, Cloud or Dedicated Hosting. If purchased for longer period right discounts are also available.
• Back-end support offered by Hosting provider and website owner need not worry about server management, OS updates, and server security.

Tools: cPanel, Plesk, Hepsia, WHM Web Control Panel Integration

Types: Linux Hosting & Windows Hosting.

Points to Remember

• Analyze your needs: Shared Hosting offers certain limited resources, or if offered unlimited, individual caps applied.
• E-commerce website owners must pay attention to security.

Technology Supported: Apache Web Server, MySQL, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, Litespeed, FFMpeg

Benefits

• Considered as more secured and protected using IP Tables Firewall.
• Most big web companies like Facebook, Wikipedia, IBM, Google hosted on it.
• Compatible with most of the CMS Softwares: WordPress, Magento, Drupal

UpateApache vulnerability

• Options lead in Apache Web Server may result in leakage of arbitrary memory. Hence would expose passwords or other secrets. Shared Hosting environments allowing .htaccess files are most vulnerable. A memory mismanagement bug processes .htaccess file and reduce security

Open Source Softwares: Visual Studio Code, TypeScript, .NET, the Cognitive Toolkit, and more

Open Source Project Hosting Providers

• Github: It has become the de facto place for open source sharing projects.
• Microsoft CodePlex: Open Source Project Hosting website by Microsoft, where developers can download open source software and create a project in collaboration with others.

Key Selling Points

• Make Linux secure, stable, and profitable.

Services Offered

• KernelCare
  • It Provides automatic kernel security updates and patches without reboots for most modern Linux distributions.
  • Using it, hosting providers attain optimal performance and uptime.
  • It supports most popular Linux distributions including CentOS/RHEL/CloudLinux 5, 6 and 7, Xen4CentOS, OpenVZ & Virtuozzo, Debian 6, 7 and 8, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS, Proxmox VE 3.x & 4.x, and others.
  • Eliminate interruption to critical applications, databases, and business processes.
• Imunify360
  • All-in-one, Automated Security Solution for Linux Web Servers, keeps Linux VPS, dedicated, and shared hosting servers safe from digital attacks. The security product powered by the herd immunity and artificial intelligence.
  • OS supported: CentOS, Red Hat, and CloudLinux OS 6 and 7.
  • Better Web server security: Sophisticated detection of security threats, including distributed brute force attacks, powered by the self-learning firewall with herd immunity.
  • Safer Websites: Sophisticated malware scanning engine can detect latest website-related malware. It makes sure that a website’s infections are detected and removed promptly before the site is delisted from search engines and blocked by browsers.
  • Imunify360 protects Linux web servers against malicious attacks, various infections and specific threats for hosting, including brute forcing techniques that are frequently used by botnets, and is the most common attack within the hosting industry.
  • It combines a signature-based approach with a powerful new machine learning technology to process all insights collected from servers all over the world.
  • It has a six-layer approach which includes sophisticated self-learning firewall, malware scanning, reputation management, and other advanced features to provide total protection against threats.

Official Elastic Sites Provider Seal: Elastic Sites run on a shared server powered by the CloudLinux OS. The OS isolates each customer into a separate Lightweight Virtualized Environment (LVE), which allocates and limits server resources, like RAM, CPU, throughput, and connections, for that customer and improves server stability. Growing customers can have a seamless upgrade or downgrade path, which is provisioned without any manipulation action. Thus fit best with customer needs on a per-customer basis.

Executive

No. of Customers: 4,000+ customers and partners, and more than 100,000 product installations including LiquidWeb and Dell

Services Offered: Delivers the web hosting industry’s most reliable and intuitive web hosting automation software

Establishment: 1997

Latest News

• (April 05, 2017) Announced the 2017 cPanel Coreference in Fort Lauderdale Florida on September 26th & 27th. cPanel, Inc. invites speakers from the entire web hosting industry to come and share their knowledge. Two days packed with highly technical talks and evening networking events, planned specifically to educate, excite, and refresh all attendees.
  Attendees: Integrators, developers, and people who use cPanel & WHM on a daily basis