Hosting Technographic Data | 125 Platforms, 1.8M+ Records | SparkDBi
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Hosting technographic data identifies which companies use a specific web hosting, domain, or DNS provider, from GoDaddy and Bluehost to Hetzner and Amazon AWS. SparkDBi tracks 125 hosting platforms across more than 1.8 million verified company install records.
Platforms and Company Counts
The hosting category spans 125 platforms. The 25 highest-volume platforms by tracked company count:
| Platform | Verified Company Count |
|---|---|
| 1&1 Internet (ALL) | 111,610 |
| GoDaddy (ALL) | 110,815 |
| Bluehost | 95,633 |
| LeaseWeb | 92,612 |
| Hetzner | 89,487 |
| Media Temple | 83,501 |
| GoDaddy Website Builder | 79,739 |
| Shopify Hosted | 76,975 |
| eNom | 70,445 |
| 1&1 Internet Website Builder | 69,315 |
| Hetzner DNS | 54,523 |
| GitHub | 54,224 |
| Amazon AWS Web Hosting | 53,735 |
| GitHub Hosting | 52,667 |
| Aruba Networks Hosting | 52,427 |
| InMotion | 50,841 |
| Strato DNS | 49,098 |
| Jimdo | 48,987 |
| HostGator | 37,807 |
| Jimdo DNS | 34,025 |
| Jimdo Hosting | 32,018 |
| Gandi | 23,563 |
| HostDime | 23,098 |
| Dropbox | 22,202 |
| Pair Networks | 21,074 |
Shown above are the 25 highest-volume platforms. The remaining 100 platforms in this category are searchable on the main TechInstall Data Cards page or available filtered on request.
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Who Uses Hosting Technographic Data
Managed and cloud hosting vendors: target companies running budget shared hosting like Bluehost or GoDaddy for upsell campaigns toward managed or cloud hosting plans.
CDN and performance vendors: target companies on budget hosting providers for speed and reliability upsell, since shared hosting customers are the most likely to feel page-load performance pain.
Domain and DNS management vendors: target companies running a specific registrar or DNS provider like eNom or Gandi for consolidation or migration campaigns.
Web agencies specializing in migrations: target companies on shared hosting platforms for a move to dedicated servers or cloud infrastructure as their traffic and technical needs grow.
How This Data Is Sourced and Verified
SparkDBi builds hosting technology profiles from five signal types working together: active network and cloud infrastructure monitoring that identifies which hosting environments and DNS providers a company's site is actually running on, workforce signals mined from job postings, resumes, and professional profiles that surface which hosting tools a company's team actually references, public corporate disclosures including SEC filings and RFP or procurement documents that record formal hosting contracts, social and public-web signals, and cross-referencing against SparkDBi's own B2B executive contact database, which ties a detected platform back to a named, verified company rather than an anonymous domain.
The hosting technographic dataset maintains 95%+ verified accuracy against known company records, refreshed on a bi-monthly cycle as companies migrate between hosting providers.
Market and Industry Context
GoDaddy, one of the two largest platforms in this dataset, was founded in 1997 by Bob Parsons and went public on the NYSE in 2015. It remains the world's largest domain registrar by volume. 1&1 Internet, this category's single largest tracked platform, is a German hosting company that rebranded as IONOS in 2018, though the "1&1 Internet" name tracked here reflects the earlier, still widely referenced brand.
Bluehost, founded in 2003, is one of three hosting providers officially recommended by WordPress.org and operates under Newfold Digital, formerly Endurance International Group. Hetzner, a German dedicated-server and cloud hosting provider founded in 1997, has grown into one of Europe's largest budget infrastructure providers, known for aggressive pricing on compute-heavy workloads relative to the major US cloud platforms. GitHub, tracked here through its static-site hosting feature, was acquired by Microsoft in 2018 for approximately $7.5 billion.
This category is one of the most fragmented in SparkDBi's technographic database. The top 5 providers account for just 27.8% of all tracked install volume, and the top 10 account for 48.9%, reflecting how many viable hosting options exist across price points, geographies, and technical requirements.
Company history and acquisition figures in this section are drawn from public deal reporting, provided as market context alongside SparkDBi's own proprietary install-base counts above, not as SparkDBi-verified figures.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Hosting technographic data identifies which companies use a specific web hosting, domain, or DNS provider, such as GoDaddy, Bluehost, or Hetzner, so vendors can target accounts by their actual hosting infrastructure.
1&1 Internet (ALL) carries the largest tracked footprint in this category at 111,610 company records, followed closely by GoDaddy (ALL) at 110,815 and Bluehost at 95,633.
Hosting has a large number of viable providers serving different customer segments, from budget shared hosting to dedicated servers to major cloud platforms. The top 5 providers account for just 27.8% of tracked volume, one of the most fragmented distributions of any TechInstall category.
Yes. Amazon AWS Web Hosting is tracked within this category alongside traditional shared and dedicated hosting providers like GoDaddy, Bluehost, and Hetzner, and platform-specific hosting like Shopify Hosted and GitHub Hosting.
SparkDBi combines five signal types: active network and cloud infrastructure monitoring, workforce signals from job postings and professional profiles, public corporate disclosures such as SEC filings and procurement records, public-web signals, and cross-referencing against SparkDBi's own B2B executive contact database to confirm the match belongs to a named, verified company.
Yes. SparkDBi can filter by any tracked platform in this category and deliver a company list with matching contact records, refined further by geography, employee count, or industry.
Yes. SparkDBi provides 50 sample company records filtered to your target platform before any commercial commitment.