As online media continues to disrupt news consumption, the leading blogs are building huge audiences and making money – making these top blogs a more attractive customer for hosting and data center providers. Which providers are having the most success with commercial blogs?
Media Temple [1] is the clear winner, according to a survey of
where the top 100 blogs are hosted [2], hosting 13 of the top 100 blogs. The Los Angeles hosting company, which offers shared hosting and a grid platform, counts
TechCrunch [3],
Mashable [4] and
Dosh Dosh [5] among its customers. Runners-up include Datagram (The
Gawker Media [6] blogs and the
Huffington Post [7]) and Six Apart (
Seth Godin [8]) and Voxel (
Perez Hilton [9],
Daily Kos [10]).
While some high-traffic blogs seek out commercial hosting, four of the top 100 continue to host on Google’s free Blogger service, most notably
PostSecret [11].
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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URLs in this post:
[1] Media Temple: http://www.mediatemple.com/
[2] where the top 100 blogs are hosted: http://www.whoishostingthis.com/top-blog-hosting
[3] TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/
[4] Mashable: http://mashable.com/
[5] Dosh Dosh: http://doshdosh.com/
[6] Gawker Media: http://www.gawker.com
[7] Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-blog/
[8] Seth Godin: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/
[9] Perez Hilton: http://www.perezhilton.com/
[10] Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/
[11] PostSecret: http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
[12] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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