Web Hosting Forecast For 2009

Melanie Posey is the Research Director of IDC’s Web Hosting Services and Telecom Services and her forecast for 2009 web hosting industry is that it is ‘promising’.

The U.S. web hosting market alone which raked in $8 billion last year will not be topped this year, but she won’t expect any decline any time soon as companies needs web sites.

She was quoted as, “If you generate marketing leads or sales or whatever over your Web site, then that is the last thing you are going to cut. The appearance of strength is very important”.