86 Web Hosting Statistics In 2025: Everything You Needs to Know

As of 2025, the web hosting market had reached over $192.85 billion and is expected to reach $355.81 billion by 2029. 

That’s a lot of websites that will need hosting!

When talking about trends, cloud hosting is most popular, with an 18.3% market share. Web hosting providers like AWS, GoDaddy, and Google Cloud are dominating the market with their comprehensive services. 

To provide further insights into web hosting, I have compiled some key statistics to help you get a better idea of the market. From revenue to future projections, I have mentioned every key detail.

Here is how the web hosting industry looks and where it is headed.    

(Source: Statista, HostingAdvice)  

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How Many Web Hosting Companies Are There?

11. As of 2025, there are more than 330,000 web hosting companies worldwide.

12. Over 571.9 million websites use web hosting services for their websites worldwide. 

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Web Hosting Market Size 2025 

The web hosting market includes all types of web hosting services worldwide, including dedicated hosting, shared hosting, virtual private servers, and internet connectivity. 

13. As of 2025, the web hosting market is valued at $192.85 billion.

14. The web hosting market is expected to grow to $355.81 billion by 2029, with a growth rate of 17.35%.

15. The U.S. web hosting industry generated approximately $58.3 billion in revenue in 2024 and is projected to exceed $70.1 billion in 2025.

16. In 2025, the average spending per employee in the web hosting market is expected to be $53.68.

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Web Hosting Market Share

17. AWS (Amazon Web Services) leads the market with a market share of 13%. 

18. Google Cloud Web service comes next with a market share of 6%.

Here are the top web hosting services that have the most web hosting market share (used by the top 1 million websites in the world):

Web Hosting Provider	Percentage of Share	Number of Websites
Amazon (AWS)	13%	124,008,639
Amazon’s AWS Global accelerator	7%	81,186,117
Google	4.98%	64,877,582
Google Cloud	6%	58,185,265
Cloudflare hosting	5%	50,287,733
GoDaddy	2.17%	34,009,900
Other	33%	–

(Source: Built with Trends)  

19. Amazon is used as a web hosting provider by 5.2% of all websites as of 2025. (Source: W3 Techs)

Let’s examine the web hosting services used by most websites worldwide. 

Web Hosting Services	Percent of Share
Amazon	5.2%
Shopify	4.8%
Hostinger	3.8%
Wix	3.6%
Newfold Digital Group	3.2%
OVH	2.9%

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Web Hosting Industry Revenue In 2025

20. The web hosting market revenue is expected to reach $159.9 billion by the end of 2025.

21. In 2024, the web hosting market generated over 130.10 billion. 

22. By 2029, the web hosting market revenue is forecasted to grow by $355.81 billion. 

Here is a quick look at the web hosting industry revenue change over the years.

Year	Revenue (in billion)
2029	$355.81 billion
2028	$313.30 billion
2027	$269.80 billion
2026	$232.20 billion
2025	$192.80 billion
2024	$159.90 billion
2023	$130.10 billion
2022	$96.91 billion
2021	$69.37 billion
2020	$59.14 billion
2019	$52.53 billion
2018	$46.49 billion
2017	$39.56 billion
2016	$ 33.50 billion

(Source: Statista)

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Web Hosting Domain Registration Statistics 

23. GoDaddy is the most popular hosting provider and domain registrar. It has over 84 million registered domains. 

24. .com Dominates the Top-Level Domain Market, with .org following closely.

25. As of 2025, the top three domains worldwide are .com, .org, and .de, with .com holding 52% of the global domain market.

Below is the breakdown of the market share of the top domains worldwide. 

Domain	Market Share
.com	43.8%
.org	4.1%
.de	3.8%
.ru	3%
.br	2.4%
.net	2.4%
.uk	2.4%
.jp	2.1%
.it	1.9%
.fr	1.8%
.pl	1.6%
.nl	1.5%
.au	1.4%
.in	1.3%

(Source: W3techs)

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Web Hosting Demographics

Here is how the web hosting industry looks in different countries and regions:

Web Hosting by Country

26. As of today, most of the web hosting providers are in the United States. The U.S. makes up 91.54% of North America’s web hosting revenue. The region’s total revenue is expected to reach $139.2 billion by 2029.
27. The United Kingdom comes next with the most number of hosting providers worldwide.

Here are some of the web hosting services used by a huge share of websites in the United States. 

Website Hosting Service	Percentage of Websites	Number of Websites
Unified Layer	5.2%	4,783,897
Amazon	4.45%	3,346,412
Namecheap Hosting	3.64%	3,346,412
Squarespace Hosting	3.64%	3,344,578
Shopify Hosted	3.04%	2,795,071
Others	80%	–

Sources: W3 Techs, Grabon

Web Hosting By Region

28. The web hosting market share in North America alone is $63.73 billion. 

29. By the end of 2024, the web hosting industry in Asia reached a revenue of $33.52 billion.

30. The European web hosting market is expected to generate $64.57 billion in revenue in 2025 and exceed $114.4 billion by 2029.

The illustration below shows past and projected web hosting revenue by region.

Source: Grabon

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Types of Web Hosting 

There are five different types of web hosting provided by hosting services worldwide. 

31. Shared hosting is the most common type of web hosting that holds 37.64% market share globally. 

32. Dedicated hosting and collocated hosting each possess 27.90% of the web hosting market share. 

Take a look at the different types of the web and their market share.

Type of web hosting	Share of the web hosting market
Shared	37.64%
Dedicated	27.90%
Collocated	27.90%
Reseller	13.60%
VPS	10.30%

Shared Hosting Statistics

In shared hosting, you will have to share a server with multiple websites. Here is how shared hosting contributes to the web hosting market. 

33. Shared hosting plans generally cost between $2.51 and $4.63 each month. (Source: HostCore)

Here’s a breakdown of typical web hosting costs:

• Shared Hosting: $3 – $20/month, cost-effective
• VPS Hosting: $20 – $180/month, better server control
• Dedicated Hosting: $100 – $600+/month, highest performance
• Cloud Hosting: $15 – $250/month, scalable
• WordPress Hosting: $20 – $150/month, optimized for WordPress

34. By 2026, the shared hosting market is expected to increase by 15% annually. This means the shared hosting market will be worth $72.2 billion.

35. 90% of websites using shared hosting go for GoDaddy or plan to do so for their websites.

Dedicated Web Hosting Statistics

Dedicated web hosting allows you to access the whole server. This hosting is usually used by heavy websites. Dedicated web hosting plans are a bit expensive but offer high security and speed. 

36. Dedicated web hosting covers 27.90% of the total web hosting market.

37. The market for Dedicated hosting is expected to grow by 11.1% by 2026. 

38. GoDaddy offers the best plans for dedicated hosting. Over 35% of the dedicated hosting websites use GoDaddy. 

VPS Hosting Statistics 

Similar to shared hosting, VPS hosting allows multiple websites on a single server. But with VPS you get more security and control over their site and server.  

39. VPS hosting has a market share of 10.30%. 

40. The VPS hosting usually costs around $13.41 – $21.89 per month. 

41. Over 63% of the websites with VPS hosting use GoDaddy. 

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Web Hosting Uptime Statistics

Web hosting uptime is an important aspect when choosing a web hosting provider for your website. Website uptime refers to the time a web service or website is working properly. 

42. Most of the web hosting companies offer 99%, 99.9%, or 99.99% uptime guarantees. 

43. 99.99% uptime is considered high availability for websites. 

44. Among the 500 Fortune companies, 60% get downtime of 1.6 hours each week. 

45. For small businesses, the cost of downtime can range between $137 and $427 per minute.

46. A single second delay in page loading can result in an 11% drop in page views.

47. Every 100-millisecond delay in website load time can lead to a 7% drop in conversion rates.

48. Downtime causes 88% of consumers to avoid returning to a website.

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Popular Web Hosting Providers 

As we know, hosting providers like GoDaddy, AWS, and Google dominate the web hosting market worldwide. Let’s now take a closer look at these best web hosting figures.

GoDaddy Web Hosting

49. GoDaddy hosts over 52 million websites worldwide, has 6,000 employees, and powers over 81 million domains.

50. GoDaddy is used by 2.5% of all websites worldwide, according to W3Techs.

51. Out of the total GoDaddy websites, 78.2% of the websites use GoDaddy only as their web host. 

52. GoDaddy hosts 1.63% of the top 100,000 websites and 1.6% of the top ten thousand.

53. GoDaddy’s revenue in 2024 was $4.57 billion, up 7.5% from $4.25 billion in 2023.

Sources: GoDaddy and Built With

AWS Web Hosting

54. Over 124 million websites use AWS web hosting globally. 

55. Amazon hosts 27.94% of the top 1 million websites.

56. In 2024, Amazon reported net sales of $638.0 billion, an 11% year-over-year increase compared to $574.8 billion in 2023.

57. Some of the top websites using AWS are Netflix, Reddit, TikTok, Zoom, Twitch and Amazon etc. 

Sources: Amazon and Built With

Google Cloud Hosting

58. Currently, 58,185,265 websites use Google Cloud Hosting. 

59.  Google Cloud hosts 9.86% of the top 1 million websites, 19.52% of the top 100k, and 26.8% of the top 10k websites.

60. Google Hosting is most popular in the United States, with 1.45 million websites using Google Hosting. 

Source: Built With

Hostinger Web Hosting

61. Hostinger provides web hosting for more than 7.56 million websites.

62. 1.54% of the top 1 million websites rely on Hostinger for their hosting needs.

Cloudflare Web Hosting

63. Cloudflare is used by more than 50.2 million websites as their web hosting provider globally. 

64. In the United States, over 1.9 million websites use Cloudflare as their web hosting. 

1 & 1 Hosting

65. 1 & 1 Hosting is used by 11.75 million websites. 

66. On the other hand, 1.02% of the top 10k websites use 1 & 1 hosting.

NameCheap Web Hosting

67. Namecheap is used by 11.63 million websites worldwide. 

68. In the United States, 3.5 million websites prefer Namecheap hosting. 

69. Among the top 1 million websites, 0.87% have Namecheap as their hosting. 

Bluehost Web Hosting 

70. Around the world, 4.11 million websites are hosted on Bluehost. This is only 1% of all websites. 

71. 0.2% of the websites use Bluehost among the top 1 million websites. 

Source: Built With Trends

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E-commerce Hosting 

Many websites use eCommerce hosting providers like Shopify, Wix, and Squarespace. Here is some insight on these providers. 

Shopify Hosting

72. Shopify hosts more than 9.13 million websites worldwide.

73. In the United States, more than 2.47 million websites use Shopify hosting. 

74. For the full year 2024, Shopify reported $1.8 billion in Subscription Solutions revenue, which includes income from platform hosting.

Sources: Shopify

WordPress Hosting

75. More than 2.87 million websites are hosted on WordPress.

76. Over 1.29 million websites hosted on WordPress are from the United States. 

77. Among the top 10k websites, 3.54% are hosted by WordPress. 

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Cloud Hosting Market Share

78. Around 89% of web hosts with cloud hosting prefer multi-cloud hosting. 

79.  Hybrid Cloud Hosting is used by 73% of the websites that use multi-cloud hosting. 

80. Around 36% of the websites using hybrid cloud solutions rely on a combination of multiple private and public servers. 

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Web Server Statistics 2025

81. Nginx powers 37% of all websites on the internet.

82. Apache server accounts for 25% of the websites.

Take a look at the web servers used by websites worldwide. 

Web Servers	% Of The Servers Used
Nginx	37%
Apache	25%
Microsoft-IIS	10%
LiteSpeed	6.71%
Varnish	4.1%
Node.js	3.2%
Amazon ALB	3%
Imunify360	2.82%

(Source: Built With Trends)

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Web Hosting Industry Trends In 2025

83. Cloud hosting is forecasted to grow faster than shared and dedicated hosting with a CAGR of 18.3%.

84. The global web hosting services market was valued at approximately $126.41 billion in 2024.

85. The web hosting market is expected to grow to around $527.07 billion by 2032, with an annual growth rate of 19.7%

86. The U.S. web hosting services market is expected to reach approximately $133.46 billion by 2032

Source: Fortune Business Insights

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Final Thoughts On Web Hosting Statistics

That’s all with the latest web hosting statistics. 

From what I have gathered, it is clear that shared hosting and AWS are leading the way.

Moreover, Cloud hosting is rapidly growing with a CAGR of 18.3%. For instance, you can see Amazon’s growing market share within the web hosting industry. 

One thing is for sure: the web hosting market size will drastically change in the upcoming years. 

What’s more? I always update the data with the newest information. So, stay tuned to get the latest facts on web hosting statistics. 

What are your thoughts on these numbers? Do share in the comments section below.