Sunday, September 27, 2009

Popularity


It is useful to investigate the popularity of a web hosting company. An easy way is to check the Alexa rank of its domain. One may think that the Alexa rank is not usually reliable for two reasons:
  1. The owner can cheat by fake traffic
  2. Not all internet users have Alexa toolbar (to be considered by the Alexa)

But fortunately these are not the case for web hosting companies, because

  1. It is so hard to cheat the Alexa rank of websites with high pageviews
  2. Webmasters (who are hosting clients) usually have Alexa toolbar

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